indetermination, accident, fortune, hazard, hap, haphazard, chance
medley, random, luck, raccroc†, casualty, contingence, adventure, hit;
fate &c (necessity) 601; equal chance; lottery; tombola†; toss up &c
621; turn of the table, turn of the cards; hazard of the die, chapter
of accidents, fickle finger of fate; cast of the dice, throw of the
dice; heads or tails, flip of a coin, wheel of Fortune; sortes†, sortes
Virgilianae†.
probability, possibility, odds; long odds, run of luck;
accidentalness; main chance, odds on, favorable odds.
contingency, dependence (uncertainty) 475; situation
(circumstance) 8.
statistics, theory of Probabilities, theory of Chances;
bookmaking; assurance; speculation, gaming &c 621.
V. chance, hap, turn up; fall to one's lot; be one's fate &c 601;
stumble on light upon; take one's chance &c 621.
Adj. casual, fortuitous, accidental, adventitious, causeless,
incidental, contingent, uncaused, undetermined, indeterminate; random,
statistical; possible &c 470; unintentional &c 621.
Adv. by chance, accidentally, by accident; casually; perchance &c
(possibly) 470; for aught one knows; as good would have it, as bad
would have it, as luck would have it, as ill-luck would have it, as
chance would have it; as it may be, as it may chance, as it may turn
up, as it may happen; as the case may be.
Phr. grasps the skirts of happy chance [Tennyson]; the accident of an
accident [Lord Thurlow].
There but for the grace of God go I