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fortune verb. LME.
[Old French fortuner from Latin fortunare make fortunate, from fortuna: see FORTUNE noun.]
verb trans. Assign a (specified) fortune to (a person etc.); control the fortunes of. LME-E17.
b. Destine (a person) to do something; ordain (something) to happen. LME-E17.
verb intrans. Happen, chance, occur. Usu. impers. in it fortuned that. Now arch. or poet. LME.
verb intrans.
a. Happen, chance, to be, to do. LME-L18.
b. Come by chance on. rare. M17.
verb trans. Orig. (foll. by off, out), find a husband for (a girl) by providing a dowry. Later, endow with wealth or fortune, dower. Cf. earlier FORTUNED 2. Now rare. M18.