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I was trying to translate this song (full lyrics here:
<http://vocadb.net/S/87131> ) and I'm having a lot of trouble with these two
lines:

> 混沌に鎖されし 喪服纏った我を 蝕む右手の薔薇  
>  宿命とし 後罪滲む

"Trapped by the chaos, having put on my mourning clothes, a rose in my worm-
eaten right hand, I make a decision to blot out my crime (btw 後罪 is pronounced
クライム)" is what I could figure out. Mostly I'm confused about とし here. I would
think it's a continuative of とする, but the only uses I could find with とする are
the typical を~とする and volitional + とする, which doesn't seem to apply here. And
I'm not sure if 宿命 (which is pronounced 定め) should even be "decision" or
"fate." Literally I could only translate the last line based on context also;
as you can see, I'm very confused!

Any help would be appreciated!

Thanks!
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translation meaning song-lyrics
とし in this sentence, among other problems
Yes it's the continuative form of とする, and I think it's "typical を～とする" you
already know, with を omitted because it's already mentioned in the previous
sentence(?). It just means "consider something ～" or "regard something as ～".

定め【さだめ】 can mean the same thing as 運命, doom, fate, etc.

So "regarding it (=薔薇) as my(?) fate, ..."

See:

  * [Adjective + とする](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/44656/5010)
  * [what is the meaning of a た形の動詞 ＋ とする](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/47030/5010)
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