befortune

English

Etymology

From be- +‎ fortune.

Verb

befortune (third-person singular simple present befortunes, present participle befortuning, simple past and past participle befortuned)

1. (poetic, dated, transitive) To befall; to happen to.
   • c. 1590–1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:

     I wish all good befortune you.

References

• “befortune”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.