well-fortunedadj.

c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) ii. l. 2249 (MED) A gynnyng with grace is wel fortunyd Whan ende and myddes aliche ben contunyd.

a1450 (c1385) G. Chaucer Complaint of Mars (Tanner 346) (1871) l. 180 Mi lady is..so wel fortuned and thewyd.

1484 W. Caxton tr. Subtyl Historyes & Fables Esope iii. iii He that is wel fortuned and happy.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 329/1 Well fortuned, bien euré.

1556 tr. J. de Flores Histoire de Aurelio & Isabelle sig. O8 If anney ladey well fortunede founde you disposede in her fauour.

1663 E. Waterhouse Fortescutus Illustratus xxiv. 332 Gentlemen may be well-fortuned, well-affected, well-reported, and not be dispositi ad Officium Vicecomitis.

1738 J. Miller Art & Nature i. 15 He had been privately engag'd a long time to another, who, if not so well fortun'd as Flaminia, was of a better Family.

1824 C. R. Maturin Albigenses III. viii. 161 Be there not miners, who, while their fellow-labourers wore out their dismal existence in fruitless labour and lightless gloom, by one well-fortuned stroke sprung a vein and discovered the hidden and fructifying ore?

1841 Bentley's Misc. 9 478 Benevolent selection on the part of some well-fortuned widow.

1931 W. R. Crocker Japanese Population Probl. viii. 207 Japan is not well-fortuned for acquiring such a capacity: she has scarcely any iron, little and poor coal, few of the raw materials.

1997 S. J. Connolly in B. Graham In Search of Ireland iii. 49 This was the Irish landed gentleman, by implication a Protestant, but displaying an elite version of the traditional Irish vices in..his incessant hunt for a well-fortuned bride.