| 单词 | chance-comer |
| 释义 | > as lemmaschance-comer a. As chance-comer, chance-hit, chance-hurt, chance-shot nouns. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > chance or causelessness > [noun] > person or thing that comes by chance chance-comer1667 visitant1743 come-by-chance1876 1667 Second Advice in Second & Third Advice to Painter 9 A chance-shot sooner took, than chance him rais'd. 1709 Ld. Shaftesbury Moralists iii. ii. 229 A Chance-hurt? an Accident against Thought, or Intention? 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 131. ¶8 A Man..does not care for sacrificing an Afternoon to every Chance-comer. 1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian xii, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. III. 320 Jeanie's last chance-hit..obliterated the ill impression which had arisen from the first. 1832 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. (ed. 2) II. 77 A variety of species may..thrive there and then perish, and be followed by other chance-comers like themselves. < as lemmas |
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