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Word Meanings - INFORTUNATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Unlucky; unfortunate. Shak. "A most infortynate chance." Howell. - In*for"tu*nate*ly, adv.

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  • CHANCELLERY
    Chancellorship. Gower.
  • HOWELL
    The upper stage of a porcelian furnace.
  • CHANCEFUL
    Hazardous. Spenser.
  • CHANCE
    Probability. Note: The mathematical expression, of a chance is the ratio of frequency with which an event happens in the long run. If an event may happen in a ways and may fail in b ways, and each of these a + b ways is equally likely, the chance,
  • CHANCELLORSHIP
    The office of a chancellor; the time during which one is chancellor.
  • CHANCEL
    lattices, crossbars. (The chancel was formerly inclosed with lattices That part of a church, reserved for the use of the clergy, where the altar, or communion table, is placed. Hence, in modern use; All that part of a cruciform church which is
  • CHANCEABLY
    By chance.
  • CHANCERY
    1. In England, formerly, the highest court of judicature next to the Parliament, exercising jurisdiction at law, but chiefly in equity; but under the jurisdiction act of 1873 it became the chancery division of the High Court of Justice, and now
  • CHANCELLOR
    A judicial court of chancery, which in England and in the United States is distinctively a court with equity jurisdiction. Note: The chancellor was originally a chief scribe or secretary under the Roman emperors, but afterward was invested with
  • CHANCE-MEDLEY
    The kiling of another in self-defense upon a sudden and unpremeditated encounter. See Chaud-Medley. Note: The term has been sometimes applied to any kind of homicide by misadventure, or to any accidental killing of a person without premeditation
  • UNLUCKY
    1. Not lucky; not successful; unfortunate; ill-fated; unhappy; as, an unlucky man; an unlucky adventure; an unlucky throw of dice; an unlucky game. Note: This word is properly applied to incidents in which failure results from chance or fortuity,
  • UNFORTUNATE
    Not fortunate; unsuccessful; not prosperous; unlucky; attended with misfortune; unhappy; as, an unfortunate adventure; an unfortunate man; an unfortunate commander; unfortunate business. -- n.
  • CHANCEABLE
    Fortuitous; casual.
  • ARCHCHANCELLOR
    A chief chancellor; -- an officer in the old German empire, who presided over the secretaries of the court.
  • PERCHANCE
    By chance; perhaps; peradventure.
  • MISCHANCE
    Ill luck; ill fortune; mishap. Chaucer. Never come mischance between us twain. Shak. Syn. -- Calamity; misfortune; misadventure; mishap; infelicity; disaster. See Calamity.
  • BECHANCE
    By chance; by accident. Grafton.
  • MISCHANCEFUL
    Unlucky. R. Browning.
  • MUM-CHANCE
    2. A silent, stupid person. Halliwell.

 

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