Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Proceeding from fortune; inconstant; changeable; fickle.
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Examples
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The reader will not expect, in thefe enlightened times, that I fhould ufe arguments to convince him, that this ri - ling of the Nile had nothing to do with the extinction of the race of the Ptolemies, though popular preachers and prophets have always made ufe of thefe fortunous events to confirm the vulgar in their prejudices.
Travels to discover the source of the Nile, in the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, and 1773 1790
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