chanceable

English

Etymology

chance +‎ -able

Adjective

chanceable (comparative more chanceable, superlative most chanceable)

1. (obsolete) Happening by chance; accidental; fortuitous; casual
   • 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

• See also Thesaurus:accidental

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “chanceable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)