24 April 2018
aleatory
[ey-lee-uh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee, al-ee-]
adjective
1. Law. depending on a contingent event:
an aleatory contract.
2. of or relating to accidental causes; of luck or chance; unpredictable:
an aleatory element.
3. Music. employing the element of chance in the choice of tones, rests, durations, rhythms, dynamics, etc.
Also, aleatoric [ey-lee-uh-tawr-ik, -tor-, al-ee-]
Origin of aleatory
Latin
1685-1695; < Latin āleātōrius, equivalent to āleātōr- (stem of āleātor gambler ( āle(a) game of chance + -ātor -ator ) + -ius adj. suffix; see -tory1
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Historical Examples
At best the actor’s is an aleatory profession and, as in all games of chance, the losses score highest.
My Actor-Husband
Anonymous
Some are aleatory, but the light-minded or interested alone call them so.
Decadence and Other Essays on the Culture of Ideas
Remy de Gourmont
This was the aleatory element in life, the element of risk and loss, good or bad fortune.
Folkways
William Graham Sumner
Anagram
early oat
royal tea
Today’s quote
People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.
– Anton Chekhov
On this day
24 April 1581 – birth of St Vincent de Paul, Catholic priest, born in France, who dedicated himself to serving the poor. Died 27 September 1660.
24 April 1915 – arrest of 250 Armenian intellectuals and leaders in Istanbul, Turkey, leads to the Armenian Genocide. It is estimated that the Ottoman Empire massacred between 1 million and 1.5 million Armenians.
24 April 1916 – Easter Rising (or Easter Rebellion) in which Irish republicans rose up against British rule with an armed insurrection in order to establish an independent Irish Republic. The Rising lasted for six days and resulted in the deaths of 500 people, of whom 54% were civilians, 30% were British military and 16% were Irish rebels. Most of the civilians deaths were caused by the British military using artillery or mistaking them for rebels. Fighting occurred mainly in Dublin, although there were also fights in counties Meath, Galway, Louth and Wexford. The rebels surrendered after six days. Most of their leaders were subsequently tried and executed. 3,430 men and 79 women were arrested. 90 were sentenced to death, however 15 were actually executed. The evidence against many of them was flimsy at best and with many them prohibited from defending their charges, accusations were made that the trials and sentences were illegal. There were also claims of British atrocities involving extrajudicial killings during the Rising. The executions and extrajudicial killings further fed the anger of the Irish against British rule.
24 April 1933 – Hitler begins persecuting Jehovah’s Witnesses by shutting down the Watch Tower Society office in Magdeburg. Around 10,000 Witnesses were incarcerated during Hitler’s reign, with approximately 1,200 dying in custody, including 250 who were executed.