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.
Fortune
(For"tune), v. t. [OF. fortuner, L. fortunare. See Fortune, n.]
1. To make fortunate; to give either good or bad fortune to. [Obs.] Chaucer.
2. To provide with a fortune. Richardson.
3. To presage; to tell the fortune of. [Obs.] Dryden.
Fortune
(For"tune), v. i. To fall out; to happen.
It fortuned the same night that a Christian, serving a Turk in the camp, secretely gave the watchmen
warning.
Knolles. Fortuneless
(For"tune*less), a. Luckless; also, destitute of a fortune or portion. Spenser.