hap-hazard

English

hap-hazard (comparative more hap-hazard, superlative most hap-hazard)

Alternative spelling of haphazard
- 1833, James Rennie, “The Word Gardening”, in Alphabet of Scientific Gardening for the Use of Beginners, London: William Orr, page 2:
  He would in this way discover which mixture of soil, or what sort of manure was required,—a very different thing from proceeding upon hap-hazard experience.
- 1897, Charles S. Mack, chapter V, in Principles of Medicine: Designed for Use as a Text-book in Medical Colleges, and for Consideration by Practitioners Generally‎^[1], Chicago: The W.T. Keener Company, page 50:
  To assert that no good had ever come from hap-hazard practice in the past would, perhaps, be incorrect. For aught I know the initial practice with any given drug among savage people is hap-hazard, and we all know that some valued practices with drugs are simply in imitation of practices with them among savage people.

hap-hazard (comparative more hap-hazard, superlative most hap-hazard)

Alternative spelling of haphazard
- 1868, John S[tephen] Wright, “My former Opinions And Predictions were based upon a reasonable Hypothesis”, in Chicago: Past, Present, Future‎^[2], Chicago: Horton & Leonard, page 3:
  Besides, it is one thing to predict or operate hap-hazard, and quite another to have definite, positive convictions, leading naturally to the anticipated result.
- 1940, William Plotts, Isogeotherm, Or Monist Theory of Stratified Mineral Occurrence and Origin, page 7:
  Coal and petroleum do not occur hap-hazard in nature, but the aggregate occurrence of each product in any region forms a definite, limited horizon, which, in its continuance, is independent of the bedding plane.