Obs. Also 6 pa. pple. fortunate. [f. L. fortūnāt-, ppl. stem of fortūnāre: see FORTUNE v. and -ATE3.] trans. To make fortunate, give good fortune to, prosper. Also absol.

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c. 1420.  Pallad. on Husb., I. 179.

        Or longe yf hit be drie in oon estate,
Let sowe hit on, and God hit fortunate.

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1535.  Shaxton, Lett. Cromwell, in Strype, Eccl. Mem., I. App. lxi. 152. [I] shall rejoyce, that God hath fortunate my writing.

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1611.  Speed, Hist. Gt. Brit., IX. xiii. (1632), 730. These petty braues thus giuen to the King, were farther fortunated with a little victory.

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1647.  Lilly, Chr. Astrol., xxvii. 169. If the Lord of the third fortunate the Lord of the second … he will be assisted in procuring an Estate.

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1792.  Sibly, Astrology, I. 18. Some heavenly influence, that infuses a secret virture or poison into our actions,… or else fortunateth or infortunateth by mistake of words, signals, or acts, that turn to the best or worst advantage, by strange hits or miscarriages.

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