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Fortune
FOR'TUNE, n. [L. fortuna, fero or porto, tempestivus. See Hour and Time.]
1. Properly, chance; accident; luck; the arrival of something in a sudden or unexpected manner. Hence the heathens deified chance, and consecrated temples and altars to the goddess. Hence the modern use of the word, for a power supposed to distribute the lots of life, according to her own humor.
Though fortune's malice overthrow my state.
2. The good or ill that befalls man.
In you the fortune of Great Britain lies.
3. Success, good or bad; event.
Our equal crimes shall equal fortune give.
4. The chance of life; means of living; wealth.
His father dying, he was driven to London to seek his fortune.
5. Estate; possessions, as a gentleman of small fortune.
6. A large estate; great wealth. This is often the sense of the word standing alone or unqualified; as a gentleman or lady of fortune. To the ladies we say, beware of fortune-hunters.
7. The portion of a man or woman; generally of a woman.
8. Futurity; future state or events; destiny. The young are anxious to have their fortunes told.
You who men's fortunes in their faces read.
FOR'TUNE, v.t.
1. To make fortunate. [Not used.]
2. To dispose fortunately or not; also, to presage. Obs.
FOR'TUNE, v.i. To befall; to fall out; to happen; to come casually to pass.
It fortuned the same night that a christian serving a Turk in the camp, secretly gave the watchmen warning.
fortune appears in definitions for these words:
Adelite Ascendant Attend Befortune Best Break Capriciousness Caster Chance Chirographist Chiromancer Climacteric Confidence Congratulatory Cramp Creature Cross-bearer Cunningman Decay Decent Defraud Demon Desperate Discourse Dissipate Dissipation Dowerless Dowry Easy Effect Egad Entity Estate Extenuate Fail Fakir Fall Fickleness Flatness Forlorn Fortunate Fortunately Fortune Fortuned Fortuneless Fortunetelling Fortunize Fret Frown Gipsey Go Gymnosophist Handsome Hap Happily Happiness Her Hold Horoscope Implex Influence Ingredient Inofficious Insomuch Invocation Joy Knight Lift Line Live Long Lose Lot Lowness Lubrictiy Luck Luckily Luckiness Maintenance Make Match Measure Mischance Misfortune Narrowness Of Opportune Out Overbear Overcast Overplus Pageant Pall Palmister Palmistry Physiognomy Plentiful Portion Possess Princely Push Recollect Restore Retrieve Right Rise Ruin Run Servile Set Share Sharer Shock Skittish Sluice Stand Star Starred Stickle Strain Strip Superiority Supply Table Test There Thwart Tiddle Translate Trice Turn Unborn Unfortunateness Unluckily Unluckiness Unportioned Vicissitude Victor Widow-hunter With Wreck Wring
Adelite Ascendant Attend Befortune Best Break Capriciousness Caster Chance Chirographist Chiromancer Climacteric Confidence Congratulatory Cramp Creature Cross-bearer Cunningman Decay Decent Defraud Demon Desperate Discourse Dissipate Dissipation Dowerless Dowry Easy Effect Egad Entity Estate Extenuate Fail Fakir Fall Fickleness Flatness Forlorn Fortunate Fortunately Fortune Fortuned Fortuneless Fortunetelling Fortunize Fret Frown Gipsey Go Gymnosophist Handsome Hap Happily Happiness Her Hold Horoscope Implex Influence Ingredient Inofficious Insomuch Invocation Joy Knight Lift Line Live Long Lose Lot Lowness Lubrictiy Luck Luckily Luckiness Maintenance Make Match Measure Mischance Misfortune Narrowness Of Opportune Out Overbear Overcast Overplus Pageant Pall Palmister Palmistry Physiognomy Plentiful Portion Possess Princely Push Recollect Restore Retrieve Right Rise Ruin Run Servile Set Share Sharer Shock Skittish Sluice Stand Star Starred Stickle Strain Strip Superiority Supply Table Test There Thwart Tiddle Translate Trice Turn Unborn Unfortunateness Unluckily Unluckiness Unportioned Vicissitude Victor Widow-hunter With Wreck Wring
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