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▪ I. bechance, v.|bɪˈtʃɑːns, -æ-|
[f. be- + chance v.]
1. intr. To happen, fall out, chance.
1527Knight in Pocock Rec. Ref. I. xxviii. 58 It may bechance that the king..may be right well content. a1555Ridley Wks. 376 Ye do know what hath bechanced unto my brother. 1591Shakes. Two Gent. i. i. 61 All happinesse bechance to thee in Millaine. 1814Cary Dante's Inf. iv. 143 My words fall short of what bechanced.
2. (with dative object.) To befall (a person).
1530Tindale Exp. & Notes (1849) 329 Let whatsoever rebuke bechance my brother. 1593Shakes. Lucr. cxl, Let there bechance him pitiful mischances.
▪ II. † beˈchance, adv., prop. phr. Obs.
[f. by prep. + chance n.]
By chance.
1548Grafton Hen. VIII, an. 14 (R.) At the last battayle..we bechaunce lost our souereigne lorde. c1570Scot. Poems 16th C. II. 334 Were not bechance he had a man. |