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<syn>Syn. -- Auspicious; lucky; prosperous; successful; favored; happy.</syn> <usage> -- <er>Fortunate</er>, <er>Successful</er>, <er>Prosperous</er>. A man is <i>fortunate</i>, when he is favored of fortune, and has unusual blessings fall to his lot; <i>successful</i> when he gains what he aims at; <i>prosperous</i> when he succeeds in those things which men commonly desire. One may be <i>fortunate</i>, in some cases, where he is not <i>successful</i>; he may be <i>successful</i>, but, if he has been mistaken in the value of what he has aimed at, he may for that reason fail to be <i>prosperous</i>.</usage>

<h1>Fortunately</h1> <Xpage=588>

<hw>For"tu*nate*ly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>In a fortunate manner; luckily; successfully; happily.</def>

<h1>Fortunateness</h1> <Xpage=588>

<hw>For"tu*nate*ness</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The condition or quality of being fortunate; good luck; success; happiness.</def>

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<h1>Fortune</h1> <Xpage=589>

<hw>For"tune</hw> <tt>(?; 135)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>fortune</ets>, L. <ets>fortuna</ets>; akin to <ets>fors</ets>, <ets>fortis</ets>, chance, prob. fr. <ets>ferre</ets> to bear, bring. See <er>Bear</er> to support, and cf. <er>Fortuitous</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The arrival of something in a sudden or unexpected manner; chance; accident; luck; hap; also, the personified or deified power regarded as determining human success, apportioning happiness and unhappiness, and distributing arbitrarily or fortuitously the lots of life.</def>

<blockquote>'T is more by <b>fortune</b>, lady, than by merit. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>O <b>Fortune</b>, <b>Fortune</b>, all men call thee fickle. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>That which befalls or is to befall one; lot in life, or event in any particular undertaking; fate; destiny; <as>as, to tell one's <ex>fortune</ex></as>.</def>

<blockquote>You, who men's <b>fortunes</b> in their faces read. <i>Cowley.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>That which comes as the result of an undertaking or of a course of action; good or ill success; especially, favorable issue; happy event; success; prosperity as reached partly by chance and partly by effort.</def>

<blockquote>Our equal crimes shall equal <b>fortune</b> give. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to <b>fortune</b>. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>His father dying, he was driven to seek his <b>fortune</b>. <i>Swift.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>Wealth; large possessions; large estate; riches; <as>as, a gentleman of <ex>fortune</ex></as>.</def>

<syn>Syn. -- Chance; accident; luck; fate.</syn>

<cs><col>Fortune book</col>, <cd>a book supposed to reveal future events to those who consult it.</cd></cs>

<i>Crashaw.</i>

<cs><col>- Fortune hunter</col>, <cd>one who seeks to acquire wealth by marriage.</cd> -- <col>Fortune teller</col>, <cd>one who professes to tell future events in the life of another.</cd> -- <col>Fortune telling</col>, <cd>the practice or art of professing to reveal future events in the life of another.</cd></cs>

<h1>Fortune</h1> <Xpage=589>

<hw>For"tune</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <ety>[OF. <ets>fortuner</ets>, L. <ets>fortunare</ets>. See <er>Fortune</er>, <tt>n.</tt>]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To make fortunate; to give either good or bad fortune to.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To provide with a fortune.</def>

<i>Richardson.</i>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To presage; to tell the fortune of.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Dryden.</i>