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See TiMK. EVENT occurs thrice in Ec (2" 9^») as the ti. of mikreh in the obsol. sense of ' that whicli befalls,' ' fate ' : as 9^ ' There is one event to the righteous and to the wicked.' Cf. Shaks. 2 Henry IV. IV. ii. 83— • Against ill chances men are ever merry, But heaviness foreruns the good event.* Elsewhere event is found only in the sense of ' issue,' ' result,' Wis 8" ' [Wisdom] foreseeth . .

the events of seasons and times ' (^x/Jdo-fis) ; 2 Mac 9-^ ' expect what shall be the event ' (rd airo^riabixe- vov). I'liis, which is the common meaning of Lat. event%is, is most frequent in writers of the time of AV, as Shaks. T. of Shrew, III. ii. 126— ' I'U after him, and see the event of this.' The mod. sense of an occurrence is very rare in writers of the period. Carlyle quotes Cromwell {Letters, 12 Sept.

1650) '[We do not think] of tlie liand of the great God in this mighty and strange appearance of His ; but can slightly call it an "event."' J. HASTINGS.