premeditation) 611; with one’s eyes open, in cold blood.
     for; with a view, with an eye to; in order to, in order that; to the
end that, with the intent that; for the purpose of, with the view of, in contemplation of, on account of.
     in pursuance of, pursuant to; quo animo[Lat]; to all intents and
purposes. 
     Phr.  “The road to hell is paved with good intentions” [Johnson];
sublimi feriam sidera vertice [Lat][Horace].

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     #621. [Absence of purpose in the succession of events] Chance. 2 —­ N.
chance &c. 156; lot, fate &c. (necessity) 601; luck; good luck &c. (good) 618; mascot.
     speculation, venture, stake, game of chance; mere shot, random shot;
blind bargain, leap in the dark; pig in a poke &c. (uncertainty) 475; fluke, potluck; faro bank; flyer*; limit.
     uncertainty; uncertainty principle, Heisenberg’s uncertainty
principle.
     drawing lots; sortilegy[obs3], sortition|; sortes[obs3], sortes
Virgilianae[obs3]; rouge et noir[Fr], hazard, ante, chuck-a-luck, crack-loo [obs3][U.S.], craps, faro, roulette, pitch and toss, chuck, farthing, cup tossing, heads or tails cross and pile, poker-dice; wager; bet, betting; gambling; the turf.
     gaming house, gambling house, betting house; bucket shop; gambling
joint; totalizator, totalizer; hell; betting ring; dice, dice box.
     [person who takes chances] gambler, gamester; man of the turf;
adventurer; dicer|!. 
     V. chance &c. (hap) 156; stand a chance &c. (be possible) 470.
     toss up; cast lots, draw lots; leave to chance, trust to chance, leave
to the chapter of accidents, trust to the chapter of accidents; tempt fortune; chance it, take one’s chance, take a shot at it (attempt) 675; run the risk, run the chance, incur the risk, incur the chance, encounter the risk, encounter the chance; stand the hazard of the die.
     speculate, try one’s luck, set on a cast, raffle, put into a lottery,
buy a pig in a poke, shuffle the cards.
     risk, venture, hazard, stake; ante; lay, lay a wager; make a bet,
wager, bet, gamble, game, play for; play at chuck farthing. 
     Adj. fortuitous &c. 156; unintentional, unintended; accidental; not
meant; undesigned, purposed; unpremeditated &c. 612; unforeseen, uncontemplated, never thought of.
     random, indiscriminate, promiscuous; undirected; aimless,
driftless[obs3], designless[obs3], purposeless, causeless; without purpose.
     possible &c. 470.
     unforeseeable, unpredictable, chancy, risky, speculative, dicey. 
     Adv. randomly, by chance, fortuitously; unpredictably, unforeseeably;
casually &c. 156; unintentionally &c. adj.; unwittingly.
     en passant[Fr], by the way, incidentally; as it may happen; at random,
at a venture, at haphazard. 
     Phr. acierta errando[Lat]; dextro tempore[Lat]; “fearful concatenation
of circumstances” [D.  Webster]; “fortuitous combination of circumstances” [Dickens]; le jeu est le fils d’avarice et le pere du desespoir[Fr]; “the happy combination of fortuitous circumstances” [Scott]; “the fortuitous or casual concourse of atoms” [Bentley]; “God does not play dice with the universe” [A.  Einstein].