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   Fortune , n. [F. fortune, L. fortuna; akin to fors, fortis, chance, prob. fr. ferre to bear, bring. See Bear to support, and cf. Fortuitous.]
   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.
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   'T is more by fortune, lady, than by merit.
   Shak.
   
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   O Fortune, Fortune, all men call thee fickle.
   Shak.
   
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   That which befalls or is to befall one; lot in life, or event in any particular undertaking; fate; destiny; as, to tell one's fortune.
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   You, who men's fortunes in their faces read.
   Cowley.
   
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   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.
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   Our equal crimes shall equal fortune give.
   Dryden.
   
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   There is a tide in the affairs of men,
   Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.
   Shak.
   
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   His father dying, he was driven to seek his fortune.
   Swift.
   
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   Wealth; large possessions; large estate; riches; as, a gentleman of fortune.
   Syn. -- Chance; accident; luck; fate.
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   Fortune book, a book supposed to reveal future events to those who consult it. Crashaw. -- Fortune hunter, one who seeks to acquire wealth by marriage. -- Fortune teller, one who professes to tell future events in the life of another. -- Fortune telling, the practice or art of professing to reveal future events in the life of another.
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   Fortune, v. t. [OF. fortuner, L. fortunare. See Fortune, n.]
   To make fortunate; to give either good or bad fortune to. [Obs.]
   Chaucer.
   
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   To provide with a fortune.
   Richardson.
   
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   To presage; to tell the fortune of. [Obs.]
   Dryden.
   
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   Fortune, v. i. To fall out; to happen.
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   It fortuned the same night that a Christian, serving a Turk in the camp, secretely gave the watchmen warning.
   Knolles.
   
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