| 单词 |
chanceable |
| 释义 |
chanceable, a. Obs. or arch.|ˈtʃɑːnsəb(ə)l, -æ-|
[f. prec. + -able.]
Happening by chance, subject to chance, casual, accidental, fortuitous.
1549Cheke Hurt Sedit. (1641) 56 Where things be measured by chanceable disorder, rather then by necessary vse. a1628F. Greville Sidney (1652) 15 The chanceable arrival of Euarchus. 1656Sir J. Finett For. Ambass. 14 It might be interpreted as chanceable, and not of design. 1881A. J. Duffield Don Quix. II. 437 Foul-mouthed babblers..[who] in a chanceable way divulge new paths for [the] pursuit [of vice].
b. Non-essential, subsidiary; = accidental 3, 4.
c1550Cheke Matt. xvi. 68 Reason.. thinketh pleasuer a chanceable thing to honestee.
¶ quasi-adv.: By chance, casually.
1581Sidney Def. Poesie (1622) 508 Wordes as they chanceable fall from the mouth. 1709Strype Ann. Ref. I. xiv. 183 Some one pastor chanceable coming to that parish for the time.
Hence ˈchanceableness, ˈchanceably adv.
1581J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osor. 160 b, All chaunceablenesse of fortune. 1672H. More Brief Reply 65 The sudden surprisedness, or inevitable chanceableness of the mistake. 1559W. Baldwin in Mirr. for Mag. (1563) E iv b, Chaunceably slayne with a piece of ordynaunce. 1579Fulke Refut. Rastel. 732 Comming in chaunceably or curiously. 1601F. Godwin Bps. of Eng. 34 The king..being chaunceably slain by the glaunce of an arrow. |
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