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bechance

verb
/bɪˈt͡ʃæns/

Etymology

From be- (“by”) + chance.

  1. derived from cadere — “to fall, to die, to happen, occur”
  2. derived from *cadentia✻ — “falling”
  3. derived from cheance — “accident, chance, luck”
  4. inherited from chance
  5. prefixed as bechance — “be + chance”

Definitions

  1. To happen

    To happen; chance.

  2. To happen (to)

    To happen (to); befall to.

    • Disturb his hours of rest with restless trances, / Afflict him in his bed with bedrid groans; / Let there bechance him pitiful mischances, / To make him moan; but pity not his moans: / Stone him with harden'd hearts, harder than stones

  3. Accidentally

    Accidentally; by chance.

    • [Y]et we haue withſtood them till at the last battayle of Branxſton, where we bechaunce loſt our ſouereigne Lorde, and many noble men, but that was by treaſon of his Lord Chamberleyn, and yet I thinke we wanne the field: […]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for bechance. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA