chanceable
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]chanceable (comparative more chanceable, superlative most chanceable)
- (obsolete) Happening by chance; accidental
- 1595, Philip Sydney, An Apology for Poetry:
- And so far were they carried into the admiration thereof, that they thought in the chanceable hitting upon any such verses, great foretokens of their following fortunes were placed.
Synonyms
[edit]- See also Thesaurus:accidental
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “chanceable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.