comeabout[obs3], come round, come into existence, come forth, come to pass, come on; pass, present itself; fall; fall out, turn out; run, be on foot, fall in; befall, betide, bechance[obs3]; prove, eventuate, draw on; turn up, crop up, spring up, pop up, arise, show up, show its face, appear, come forth, cast up; supervene, survene[obs3]; issue, arrive, ensue, arise, start, hold, take its course; pass off &c. (be past) 122.
meet with; experience, enjoy, encounter, undergo, suffer, pass
through, go through, be subjected to, be exposed to; fall to the lot of; be one’s chance, be one’s fortune, be one’s lot; find; endure &c. (feel) 821.
Adj. happening &c. v; going on, doing, current; in the wind, in the
air, afloat; on foot, afoot, on the tapis[obs3]; at issue, in question; incidental.
eventful, stirring, bustling, full of incident; memorable, momentous,
signal.
Adv. eventually; in the event of, in case, just in case; in the course
of things; as things, times go; as the world goes, wags; as the tree falls, cat jumps; as it may turn out, happen.
Phr. that’s the way the ball bounces, that’s the way the cookie
crumbles; you never know what may turn up, you never know what the future will bring; the plot thickens; “breasts the blows of circumstance” [Tennyson]; “so runs round of life from hour to hour” “sprinkled along the waste of years” [Tennyson][Keble].
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#152. Destiny.
— N. destiny &c. (necessity) 601; future
existence,
post existence; hereafter; future state, next world,
world to come, after life; futurity &c. 121; everlasting
life, everlasting death; life beyond the grave, world
beyond the grave; prospect &c. (expectation) 507.
V. impend; hang over,
lie over; threaten, loom, await, come on,
approach, stare one in the face; foreordain, preordain;
predestine, doom, have in store for.
Adj. impending &c. v.;
destined; about to be, happen; coming, in
store, to come, going to happen, instant, at hand,
near; near, close at hand; over hanging, hanging over
one’s head, imminent; brewing, preparing, forthcoming;
in the wind, on the cards, in reserve; that will, is
to be; in prospect &c. (expected) 507; looming in
the distance, horizon, future; unborn, in embryo;
in the womb of time, futurity; pregnant &c. (producing)
161.
Adv. in time, the long
run; all in good time; eventually &c. 151;
whatever may happen &c. (certainly) 474; as chance
&c. 156 would have it.
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