fortuitousadj.
/fɔːˈtjuːᵻtəs/, /fɔːˈtʃuːᵻtəs/, U.S. /fɔrˈt(j)uədəs/ That happens or is produced by fortune or chance; accidental, casual. fortuitous concourse of atoms: see concourse n. 3a. fortuitous event (Law): see quot. 1856.
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the world > existence and causation > occurrence > [noun] > occurrence or event > fortuitous event
fortuitous event1712
the world > existence and causation > causation > chance or causelessness > [adjective]
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1653 H. More Antidote against Atheism in Coll. Philos. Writings (1712) iii. xv. 135 This Argument against the fortuitous concourse of Atoms.
1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 293. ¶4 The highest Degree of it [sc. Wisdom] which Man can possess, is by no means equal to fortuitous Events.
1806 R. Fellowes tr. J. Milton Second Def. in C. Symmons Prose Wks. John Milton VI. 386 This extraordinary kindness..cannot be any fortuitous combination.
1823 W. Scott Peveril I. Pref. Let. p. iii A fortuitous rencontre.
1856 J. Bouvier Law Dict. U.S.A. 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.
1865 Pall Mall Gaz. 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’.
1877 W. Sparrow Serm. xviii. 241 Neither fortuitous nor necessitated, but entirely under the governmental control of the great and good God.
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