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casualty (iou)



casualty noun. LME.
[Alt. of medieval Latin casualitas (see CASUALITY) after penalty, royalty, etc.: see -TY1.]
Chance. Now rare. LME.
S. Johnson Combinations of skilful genius with happy casualty.
A chance occurrence; an accident, a mishap, a disaster. LME.
Shakespeare Pericles Time hath rooted out my parentage, And to the world and awkward casualties Bound me in servitude. Swift Several casualties have happened this week, and the bill of mortality is very much increased.
b. A person killed or injured in war or an accident; a thing lost or destroyed. M19.
S. Sassoon About 40 casualties; only 4 killed. J. T. Story His own father's wool business was a casualty of the war years.
An incidental charge or payment; spec. (Scots Law, now Hist.) a payment due from a vassal in certain contingencies. LME.
Subjection to chance, uncertainty. E16-E19.
In full casualty department, casualty ward. The part of a hospital where casualties are attended to. M19.