fortuned

1. 1
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of fortune. The verb is archaic.

   Note

   One spelling serves as both past tense and past participle, and it also doubles as the "having fortune" adjective. The verb's transitive uses are to give someone a fortune or to foretell it, so a passive such as "they were richly fortuned" is possible. The "happen" sense is intransitive and obsolete. In "it fortuned that…" the verb takes no object and has no passive, and the phrase reads as deliberately old.

2. 2
   adjective

   Having fortune of a particular kind (whether destiny or wealth) typically paired with a descriptive word such as "well" or "ill".

   He counted himself well fortuned, blessed with health, money, and a quiet mind.

   The ill-fortuned campaign cost the general both his army and his good name.

   Similarfated, starred

   Note

   Built from a noun plus -ed, this adjective nearly always leans on a modifier that says what kind of fortune is meant. Samuel Richardson's Pamela (1741) has a "broken-fortun'd Peer", a nobleman whose wealth has collapsed, with the -ed clipped to 'd. Hyphenate the compound before a noun (an ill-fortuned campaign). It also compares with more and most rather than -er and -est.

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