a. Obs. [a. OF. fortuneus: see FORTUNE sb. and -OUS.]

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  1.  Pertaining to fortune or chance, fortuitous.

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c. 1374.  Chaucer, Boeth., I. pr. vi. 17 (Camb. MS.). I ne trowe nat in no manere þat so certeyn thinges sholden be moeued by fortunows fortune. Ibid., II. pr. iv. 29 (Camb. MS.). Thou mayst knowe that blisfulnesse ne may nat standen in thinges that ben fortunous and temporel.

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  2.  Fortunate, successful.

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c. 1470.  Hardyng, Chron., IX. iv.

        With mighty strokes, courage, and cheualrous
He wanne the felde in batell fortunous.

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