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Bechance

//bɪˈt͡ʃæns// adv, verb

Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    Accidentally; by chance. not-comparable

    "[Y]et we haue withſtood them till at the last battayle of Branxſton, where we bechaunce loſt our ſouereigne Lorde, and many noble men, but that was by treaſon of his Lord Chamberleyn, and yet I thinke we wanne the field: […]"

Verb
  1. 1
    To happen; chance. intransitive
  2. 2
    happen, occur, or be the case in the course of events or by chance wordnet
  3. 3
    To happen (to); befall to. archaic, transitive

    "Disturb his hours of rest with restless trances, / Afflict him in his bed with bedrid groans; / Let there bechance him pitiful mischances, / To make him moan; but pity not his moans: / Stone him with harden'd hearts, harder than stones"

  4. 4
    become of; happen to wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From be- + chance.

Etymology 2

From be- (“by”) + chance.

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