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fey🔊

(dialectal, archaic or poetic) About to die; doomed; on the verge of sudden or violent death.

💬 Quotations
Surely the Gods have made him fey, having ordained his destruction and our humbling before these Demons.
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!”

(obsolete) Dying; dead.

(chiefly Scotland, Ireland) Possessing second sight, clairvoyance, or clairaudience.

Overrefined, affected.

Strange or otherworldly.

Spellbound.

Magical or fairylike.

(fiction, mysticism) A fairy.

Fairy folk collectively.