ppl. a. Now rare. [f. FORTUNE sb. and v. + -ED.] Having fortune (of a specified kind); † also, = fortunate (obs.). Of an event: Characterized by a (specified) fortune.
c. 1374. Chaucer, Compl. Mars, 180.
| My lady is the verrey sours and welle | |
| Of beaute, lust, fredam, and gentilness … | |
| And therto so wel fortuned and thewed | |
| That throgh the world hir goodnesse is yshewed. |
c. 1470. Henry the Minstrel, Wallace, VIII. 685. A fortonyt man, no thing gois him agayn.
1484. Caxton, Fables of Æsop, III. iii. He that is wel fortuned and happy and is atte upperest of the whele of fortune, may wel falle doune. Ibid., Curial, 15. O fortuned men.
1606. Shaks., Ant. & Cl., IV. xv. 24.
| Not th’Imperious shew | |
| Of the full-Fortun’d Cæsar, euer shall | |
| Be brooch’d with me, if Knife, Drugges, Serpents haue | |
| Edge, sting, or operation. |
1887. Saintsbury, Hist. Elizab. Lit. (1894), 202. The poisoning being, like Juliet’s, a mere trick, though differently fortuned.
b. Possessed of a ‘fortune’ or portion.
1631. Shirley, Love in Maze, I. i.
| Go. This Gerard is a Gentleman of handsome parts, | |
| And they say fortun’d, diligent in’s courtship. |
1748. Richardson, Clarissa (1811), I. xl. 299. I must go to him, and to his, as an obliged and half-fortuned person.
