Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (18701938). Rogets International Thesaurus. 1922.
Class I. Words Expressing Abstract Relations Section VIII. Causation
1. Constancy of Sequence in Events
156. [Absence of Assignable Cause.] Chance.
NOUN: CHANCE, 1 indetermination, accident, fortune, hazard, hap [ rare], haphazard, chance-medley, random, luck, raccroc [ F.], fluke [ cant], casualty, fortuity, contingence, adventure, hit; fate ( necessity) [See Necessity]; equal chance; lottery; tombola; lotto; toss-up [ colloq.] [See Chance]; turn of the -table, - cards; hazard of the die, chapter of accidents; cast -, throw- of the dice; heads or tails, wheel of Fortune; sortes [ L.], sortes Virgilian [ L.].
PROBABILITY, possibility, contingency, odds, long odds, run of luck; accidentalness, accidentalism, accidentality; main chance. theory of -Probabilities, - Chances; bookmaking; assurance; gamble, speculation, gaming [See Chance].
VERB: CHANCE, hap, turn up; fall to ones lot; be ones fate [See Necessity]; stumble on, light upon; blunder upon, hit, hit upon; take ones chance [See Chance].
ADJECTIVE: CASUAL, fortuitous, accidental, chance, chanceable [ archaic], chanceful [ archaic], haphazard, random, casual, adventive, adventitious, causeless, incidental, contingent, uncaused, undetermined, indeterminate; possible [See Possibility]; unintentional [See Chance].
ADVERB: BY CHANCE, by accident; at random, casually; perchance &c. ( possibly), 470; for aught one knows; as -good, - bad, - ill-luck &c. n.- would have it; as it may -be, - chance, - turn up, - happen; as the case may be.
QUOTATIONS: Grasps the skirts of happy chance.Tennyson
The accident of an accident.Lord Thurlow