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Coming by good luck or favorable chance bringing some good thing not foreseen as certain presaging happiness auspicious as a fortunate event a fortunate concurrence of circumstances a fortunate investment...
Fortune-tellers
Fortune-tellers, persons pretending or professing to tell fortunes are punishable as rogues and vagabonds under the Vagrancy Act, 1824 (5 Geo. 4, c. 83), s. 4. See, further, GYPSIES; PALMISTRY; and VAGRANT....
Fortunately
In a fortunate manner luckily successfully happily...
Fortunateness
The condition or quality of being fortunate good luck success happiness...
Fortunize
To regulate the fortune of to make happy...
Happy
Favored by hap luck or fortune lucky fortunate successful prosperous satisfying desire as a happy expedient a happy effort a happy venture a happy omen...
Luck
That which happens to a person an event good or ill affecting ones interests or happiness and which is deemed casual a course or series of such events regarded as occurring by chance chance hap fate fortune often ones habitual or characteristic fortune as good bad ill or hard luck Luck is often used by itself to mean good luck as luck is better than skill a stroke of luck...
Luckily
In a lucky manner by good fortune fortunately used in a good sense as they luckily escaped injury...
Lucky
Favored by luck fortunate meeting with good success or good fortune said of persons as a lucky adventurer...
Gypsies
Gypsies. The first of the laws against gypsies, 22 Hen. 8, c. 10, describes this people, who were then new-comers in this country, as 'outlandish persons calling themselves Egyptians, using no craft or feat or merchandise, who have come into this realm and go from shire to shire and place to place in great company, and use great, subtle, and crafty means to deceive the people, bearing them in hand, that they by palmistry could tell men's and women's fortunes; and so many times by craft and subtilty have deceived the people of their money, and also have committeed many heinous felonies and robberies.' It was enacted that if any such persons came within the realm, they should forfeit all their goods and chattels, and should leave the kingdom within fifteen days after command so to do, upon pain of imprisonment, 4 Reeves, c. xxx., 420.Both this Act, and the still more severe 1 & 2 P. & M. c. 4, have been repealed, as Acts not in use, by 19 & 20 Vict. c. 64. Fortune-tellers are, however, p...
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