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stonepicnicking_okapi) wrote2024-07-17 07:36 pm
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Wordy Wednesday
The Wednesday word is...
aleatory.
From Latin noun aleator meaning 'gambler; dice player.'
1. dependent on chance or luck; random; unpredictable
The aleatory election of such a boor surely could not have been predicted.
2. in law: dependent on unknown contingencies
At the time he was thought foolish for entering into an aleatory contract, with his only cargo ship at the mercy of unpredictable storms.
aleatory.
From Latin noun aleator meaning 'gambler; dice player.'
1. dependent on chance or luck; random; unpredictable
The aleatory election of such a boor surely could not have been predicted.
2. in law: dependent on unknown contingencies
At the time he was thought foolish for entering into an aleatory contract, with his only cargo ship at the mercy of unpredictable storms.
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