fortunare

fortunare [CL] 1 to make fortunate, prosperous, blessed (also absol.); b (p. ppl.; also as sb. m.); c (as proper name, esp. of Venantius ~atus). d (Insulae ~atae) Fortunate Isles, spec. Canary Islands. e (of portent or day) propitious. f (as sb. n.) good fortune, good news. g (abl. ~ato as adv.) w. good fortune. eundem ‥ multorum obsequia remunerare favor et gratia ~avit Gir. PI I 8; mens ‥ / ut melius fortunet opus Vinsauf PN 53; at ars quam tetigi fortunat subito Walt. Wimb. Palpo 9; ave, virgo, quam sacravit, / fortunavit et fetavit / virtus almi pneumatis Id. Virgo 10; Pol. Poems I 207 (v. emundare 4).  b tum sequor in vitreis recondens lumina campis / et fortunatus Aldh. Aen. 58 (Vesper sidus) 6; [Benedictus] quem ab ‥ incunabulis ita ~atum vocabuli praesagium pascebat Id. VirgP 30; ~atus, felix GlC F 288; 9‥ ~atum, þone gewilsœligan; furtunatus, gewifsœli WW; cum substantia simul hominum defecere solacia et ~atus cum re perit omnis amicus Gosc. Transl. Mild. 22 p. 188; Bradw. CD 192A (v. eufortunium); Ricardus rex ‥ fuit bellicosus et ~atus in adversis Feudal Man. 90.  c presbyter ~atus in Laude Virginum ‥ ait ‥ Bede HE I 7; quid Fortunatus vel quid Lactantius edunt Alcuin SS Ebor 1552.  d alii ‥ in insulis ~atis Elysios esse credunt Alb. Lond. DG 6. 4; Bart. Angl. XV 112 (v. erroneus 2a); s1344 papa ‥ Lodovicum de Hispania creavit principem Insularum ~atarum Wals. HA I 265.  e dies ~a, bonum est jungi cum ‥ senibus Bacon V 112.  f interea taciti muliebri murmure discunt / fortunata viri Frith. 45.  g o munache, ~ato reperies ac insperate quo tanto mentis turbaris angore Herm. Arch. 32. 2 to risk, hazard; b (refl.). c (p. ppl.) characterized by hazard, accidental. 1386 nolentes ipsis ligeis nostris, qui corpora sua in tantis periculis pro nostro honore viriliter ~arunt, ‥ injuriari (RGasc) Foed. VII 541.  b 13‥ quia quidam multociens se ~ant et ‥ voluntarie se ponunt in ‥ tenementa ‥ legata in testamentis Rec. Norw. I 162; 1388 M. ‥ se ~are voluerit racione guerre et periculorum maris nequeat invenire. quodque plures gentes ‥ ad transeundum versus ‥ villam Calesii se ~are non audeant Foed. VII 571a.  c 1271 per ~atam oppressionem virorum et mulierum, que per ruinam ecclesieB. Marie de Arcubus ‥ nuper accidit Cl 330.