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fey

see also: Fey

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Adjective

fey

(dialectal, archaic or poetic) About to die; doomed; on the verge of sudden or violent death.
- 1977, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion:
  Then Fëanor laughed as one fey, and he cried: “None and none! What I have left behind I count now no loss; needless baggage on the road it has proved. Let those that cursed my name, curse me still, and whine their way back to the cages of the Valar! Let the ships burn!”
- 1922, E. R. Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros:
  Surely the Gods have made him fey, having ordained his destruction and our humbling before these Demons.
(obsolete) Dying; dead.
(chiefly, Scottish, Irish) Possessing second sight, clairvoyance, or clairaudience.
Overrefined, affected.
Strange or otherworldly.
Spellbound.