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Definition of Parcae
1. Noun. Any of the three Roman goddesses of fate or destiny; identified with the Greek Moirai and similar to the Norse Norns.
Generic synonyms: Roman Deity
Lexicographical Neighbors of Parcae
Literary usage of Parcae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Study of the Sepulchral Inscriptions in Buecheler's "Carmina Epigraphica by Judson Allen Tolman (1910)
"The figure of the parcae spinning and cutting the thread and thus determining
... Similar allusions to .the thread of the parcae appear in Inscriptions 587. ..."
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