That which is inevitable in the fullness of time.
One's eventual fate (not necessarily inevitable or predestined).
That to which any person or thing is destined; a predetermined state; a condition predestined by the Divine or by human will.
The fixed order of things; invincible necessity; an irresistible power or agency conceived of as determining the future, whether in general or of an individual.
Ancestry.
Beginnings; origin.