单词 | by adventure |
释义 | > as lemmasby (also of) adventure ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > chance or causelessness > [adverb] feringc1000 feringlya1300 by casec1300 chancefully1303 lotc1325 peradventurec1325 of chance1330 happilya1375 in hapa1375 upon hapsa1375 casuallyc1384 perchancec1387 chancely1389 by fortune1390 haplyc1390 by (also of) adventurea1393 percasea1393 adventurelyc1400 percase1402 accidently?a1425 adventurously1440 by (good, lucky, etc.) hap?a1450 accidentally1528 chanceably1559 bechance1569 chance1595 casual-wise1601 accidental1622 occasionally1622 fortuitouslya1652 contingently1668 by chance1669 chanceable1709 per-hazard1788 chance-wise1844 a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) Prol. l. 619 (MED) A gret ston from an hull on hyh Fel doun, of sodein aventure, Upon the feet of this figure. c1405 (c1385) G. Chaucer Knight's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 658 By auenture this Palamon Was in a bussh. a1500 (?a1425) tr. Secreta Secret. (Lamb.) 99 (MED) And yf it fall, by auenture, þat þe engenderours of þe engendre lere hym any craft. 1537 in C. Innes Registrum Episcopatus Aberdonensis (1845) I. 413 As may of auentour happyne. 1675 T. Hobbes tr. Homer Odysses 210 A chopping-board was near him by adventure. 1702 in H. Adamson Muses Threnodie (1774) App. 46 The burgesses of Dundee has good right to buy any ship coming by adventure within the water of Tay. 1879 Nature 23 Oct. 618/2 Man..does sometimes see by adventure, as it were, the whole law fulfilled without his studying for it or expecting it. < as lemmas |
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