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† fortuit, a. Obs.
Also 7 -ite.
[a. F. fortuit, ad. L. fortuitus: see fortuitous.]
Fortuitous.
c1374Chaucer Boeth. v. pr. i. 117 (Camb. MS.) Fortuit hap. 1530Palsgr. Introd. 16 Utterly fortuyt and done by chaunce. 1621Burton Anat. Mel. ii. iii. v, False feares and all other fortuit inconueniences. 1668M. Casaubon Credulity (1670) 15 That the world was made by a fortuit concourse of Atomes.
Hence † fortuitness.
1642Sir K. Digby Observ. Religio Medici (1659) 18 Fortuitnesse or Contingency of things. |