Word Meanings - BECHANCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

By chance; by accident. Grafton.

OCCURRENT
Occurring or happening; hence, incidental; accidental.
OCCUR
1. To meet; to clash. The resistance of the bodies they occur with. Bentley. 2. To go in order to meet; to make reply. I must occur to one specious objection. Bentley. 3. To meet one's eye; to be found or met with; to present itself; to offer;
BECHANCE
By chance; by accident. Grafton.
OCCURSE
See BENTLEY
BETIDE
To happen to; to befall; to come to ; as, woe betide the wanderer. What will betide the few Milton.
OCCURRENCE
1. A coming or happening; as, the occurence of a railway collision. Voyages detain the mind by the perpetual occurrence and expectation of something new. I. Watts. 2. Any incident or event; esp., one which happens without being designed
HAPPEN
Etym: 1. To come by chance; to come without previous expectation; to fall out. There shall no evil happen to the just. Prov. xii. 21. 2. To take place; to occur. All these things which had happened. Luke xxiv. 14. To happen on, to meet with; to
SUPERVENE
To come as something additional or extraneous; to occur with reference or relation to something else; to happen upon or after something else; to be added; to take place; to happen. Such a mutual gravitation can never supervene to matter
BEFALL
To happen to. I beseech your grace that I may know The worst that may befall me. Shak.
OCCURSION
A meeting; a clash; a collision. Boyle.
MISHAPPEN
To happen ill or unluckily. Spenser.
BEHAPPEN
To happen to.