[f. BE- + CHANCE v.]
1. intr. To happen, fall out, chance.
1527. Knight, in Pocock, Rec. Ref., I. xxviii. 58. It may bechance that the king … may be right well content.
a. 1555. Ridley, Wks., 376. Ye do know what hath bechanced unto my brother.
1591. Shaks., Two Gent., I. i. 61. All happinesse bechance to thee in Millaine.
1814. Cary, Dante’s Inf., IV. 143. My words fall short of what bechanced.
2. (with dative object) To befall (a person).
1530. Tindale, Exp. & Notes (1849), 329. Let whatsoever rebuke bechance my brother.
1593. Shaks., Lucr., cxl. Let there bechance him pitiful mischances.
