2. To provide with a fortune. --Richardson.
3. To presage; to tell the fortune of. [Obs.] --Dryden.
It fortuned the same night that a Christian, serving a
Turk in the camp, secretely gave the watchmen warning.
--Knolles.
'T is more by fortune, lady, than by merit. --Shak.
O Fortune, Fortune, all men call thee fickle.
--Shak.
2. That which befalls or is to befall one; lot in life, or
event in any particular undertaking; fate; destiny; as, to
tell one's fortune.
You, who men's fortunes in their faces read.
--Cowley.
3. That which comes as the result of an undertaking or of a
course of action; good or ill success; especially,
favorable issue; happy event; success; prosperity as
reached partly by chance and partly by effort.
Our equal crimes shall equal fortune give. --Dryden.
There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken
at the flood, leads on to fortune. --Shak.
His father dying, he was driven to seek his fortune.
--Swift.
4. Wealth; large possessions; large estate; riches; as, a
gentleman of fortune.
Syn: Chance; accident; luck; fate.
{Fortune book}, a book supposed to reveal future events to
those who consult it. --Crashaw.
{Fortune hunter}, one who seeks to acquire wealth by
marriage.
{Fortune teller}, one who professes to tell future events in
the life of another.
{Fortune telling}, the practice or art of professing to
reveal future events in the life of another.