noun
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a restraining or being restrained; restraint; restriction.
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the destiny - a) what will necessarily happen to any person or thing; fate; b) the supernatural agency that determines events (overwhich no one else has control).
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a rule ordinance or law by which something is regulated; regulation.
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a religious duty, observation (performed as per one's vow).
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(phil.) the intrinsic energy that all the things in the universe have.
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a controlling or subduing of one's passions.
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the fixed order of things.
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(gram.) a regular occuring or reoccuring without variations.
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the power or ability the Sureme Being has to regulate the destiny of individuals.
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(vīr.) the fact or condition of being regulated by the Supreme Being.
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(yoga.) one of the twelve forms of the mystic lotus in the human heart.