Fortunate

[Lat. for tun at is, pp. of for tun are, to render prosperous.] Lucky; prosperous; succe ful; happy; coming by good luck or favorable chance. "I am most fortunate , thus accidentally to encounter you." Shaks . -Bringing, or receiving, some unforeseen or unexpected good; as, a fortunate event, a fortunate number in a lottery. Fortunately, adv . Luckily; succe fully; happily; by good fortune; by favorable chance or i ue. Fortunatene , n. The state or quality of being fortunate. For tun at us, ( for - tu -nai'tus.) ( Lit. ) The title of one of the best German Volksbucher (peoples' books) ever written, and which has been translated into perhaps every language of Europe. It originated in the 15th century, though many of the tales included in it are of much older date. The oldest printed edition of the book now extant was published at Frankfort in 1509. The story is, that For tun at us and his sons are the po e ors of an inexhaustible purse of gold and a wishing-cap, which, however, in the end, prove their ruin. Thomas Decker made it the subject of his Pleasant Comedie of Old For tun at us (1600); and Tieck gives the story in his Phantasus (3 vols., Berlin, 1816).