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Meaning of విధి in English

  • A small job; in the pl., the regular or daily light work of a household or farm, either within or without doors.
  • To do chores.
  • A choir or chorus.
  • Destined.
  • To destine, design, or choose.
  • That to which any person or thing is destined; predetermined state; condition foreordained by the Divine or by human will; fate; lot; doom.
  • The fixed order of things; invincible necessity; fate; a resistless power or agency conceived of as determining the future, whether in general or of an individual.
  • That which is due; payment.
  • That which a person is bound by moral obligation to do, or refrain from doing; that which one ought to do; service morally obligatory.
  • Hence, any assigned service or business; as, the duties of a policeman, or a soldier; to be on duty.
  • Specifically, obedience or submission due to parents and superiors.
  • Respect; reverence; regard; act of respect; homage.
  • The efficiency of an engine, especially a steam pumping engine, as measured by work done by a certain quantity of fuel; usually, the number of pounds of water lifted one foot by one bushel of coal (94 lbs. old standard), or by 1 cwt. (112 lbs., England, or 100 lbs., United States).
  • Tax, toll, impost, or customs; excise; any sum of money required by government to be paid on the importation, exportation, or consumption of goods.
  • A fixed decree by which the order of things is prescribed; the immutable law of the universe; inevitable necessity; the force by which all existence is determined and conditioned.
  • Appointed lot; allotted life; arranged or predetermined event; destiny; especially, the final lot; doom; ruin; death.
  • The element of chance in the affairs of life; the unforeseen and unestimated conitions considered as a force shaping events; fortune; esp., opposing circumstances against which it is useless to struggle; as, fate was, or the fates were, against him.
  • The three goddesses, Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos, sometimes called the Destinies, or Parcaewho were supposed to determine the course of human life. They are represented, one as holding the distaff, a second as spinning, and the third as cutting off the thread.
  • Decreed by fate; destined; doomed; as, he was fated to rule a factious people.
  • Invested with the power of determining destiny.
  • Exempted by fate.
  • Having the power of serving or accomplishing fate.
  • Significant of fate; ominous.
  • To doom beforehand; to predestinate.
  • Doom or sentence decreed in advance.

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