chanceable
English
editEtymology
editAdjective
editchanceable (comparative more chanceable, superlative most chanceable)
- (obsolete) Happening by chance; accidental
- 1595, Philip Sydney, An Apology for Poetry:
- And so far were they carried into the admiration thereof, that they thought in the chanceable hitting upon any such verses, great foretokens of their following fortunes were placed.
Synonyms
edit- See also Thesaurus:accidental
Derived terms
editReferences
edit- “chanceable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.