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fortuitous, a.|fɔːˈtjuːɪtəs|
[f. L. fortuī̆t-us, f. forte by chance, f. fors chance + -ous.]
That happens or is produced by fortune or chance; accidental, casual. fortuitous concourse of atoms: see concourse 3. fortuitous event (Law): see quot. 1856.
1653H. More Antid. Ath. iii. xv. (1712) 135 This Argument against the fortuitous concourse of Atoms. 1712Addison Spect. No. 293 ⁋4 The highest Degree of it [Wisdom] which Man can possess, is by no means equal to fortuitous Events. 1806R. Fellowes tr. Milton's 2nd Def. Wks. (Bohn) I. 240 This extraordinary kindness..cannot be any fortuitous combination. 1823Scott Peveril Pref. Let., A fortuitous rencontre. 1856Bouvier Amer. Law Dict., Fortuitous event, a term in the civil law to denote that which happens by a cause which cannot be resisted..Or it is that which neither of the parties has occasioned or could prevent. 1865Pall Mall G. 27 Oct. 6 The epithet he [Lord Palmerston] applied to the coalition of parties against him on the China question in 1857—‘a fortuitous concourse of atoms’. 1877Sparrow Serm. xviii. 241 Neither fortuitous nor necessitated, but entirely under the governmental control of the great and good God.
absol.1855H. Spencer Princ. Psychol. iv. ii. (1872) I. 408 All grades, from the necessary to the fortuitous. |