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Occasion :: Occasion (n.) A favorable opportunity; a convenient or timely chance; convenience.

Peradventure :: Peradventure (adv. & conj.) By chance; perhaps; it may be; if; supposing.

Doctrine :: Doctrine (n.) That which is taught; what is held, put forth as true, and supported by a teacher, a school, or a sect; a principle or position, or the body of principles, in any branch of knowledge; any tenet or dogma; a principle of faith; as, the doctrine of atoms; the doctrine of chances..

Casualism :: Casualism (n.) The doctrine that all things exist or are controlled by chance.

Reis Effendi :: Reis Effendi () A title formerly given to one of the chief Turkish officers of state. He was chancellor of the empire, etc..

Misadventure :: Misadventure (n.) Mischance; misfortune; ill lick; unlucky accident; ill adventure.

Chance :: Chance (n.) A supposed material or psychical agent or mode of activity other than a force, law, or purpose; fortune; fate; -- in this sense often personified..

Habnab :: Habnab (adv.) By chance.

Rehear :: Rehear (v. t.) To hear again; to try a second time; as, to rehear a cause in Chancery..

Mischance :: Mischance (n.) Ill luck; ill fortune; mishap.

Interdict :: Interdict (n.) An order of the court of session, having the like purpose and effect with a writ of injunction out of chancery in England and America..

Report :: Report (v. t.) An official statement of facts, verbal or written; especially, a statement in writing of proceedings and facts exhibited by an officer to his superiors; as, the reports of the heads af departments to Congress, of a master in chancery to the court, of committees to a legislative body, and the like..

Hedge :: Hedge (v. i.) To reduce the risk of a wager by making a bet against the side or chance one has bet on.

Lord :: Lord (n.) A title bestowed on the persons above named; and also, for honor, on certain official persons; as, lord advocate, lord chamberlain, lord chancellor, lord chief justice, etc..

Finesse :: Finesse (v. i.) To attempt, when second or third player, to make a lower card answer the purpose of a higher, when an intermediate card is out, risking the chance of its being held by the opponent yet to play..

Consistory :: Consistory (n.) The spiritual court of a diocesan bishop held before his chancellor or commissioner in his cathedral church or elsewhere.

Game :: Game (v. i.) A contest, physical or mental, according to certain rules, for amusement, recreation, or for winning a stake; as, a game of chance; games of skill; field games, etc..

Fortune :: Fortune (n.) 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..

Aventure :: Aventure (n.) A mischance causing a person's death without felony, as by drowning, or falling into the fire..

Probability :: Probability (n.) Likelihood of the occurrence of any event in the doctrine of chances, or the ratio of the number of favorable chances to the whole number of chances, favorable and unfavorable. See 1st Chance, n., 5..

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