Definition of "bechance"

bechance¹

/bɪˈt͡ʃæns/

verb
third-person singular simple present bechances, present participle bechancing, simple past and past participle bechanced
1. (intransitive) To happen; chance.
2. (transitive, archaic) To happen (to); befall to.
  Quotations
  Disturb his hours of rest with restless trances,Afflict him in his bed with bedrid groans;Let there bechance him pitiful mischances,To make him moan; but pity not his moans:Stone him with harden'd hearts, harder than stones
  1594, William Shakespeare, Lucrece (First Quarto), London: […] Richard Field, for Iohn Harrison, […]

bechance²

/bɪˈt͡ʃæns/

adverb
not comparable
1. Accidentally; by chance.
  Quotations
  at the last battayle of, where we bechaunce lost our souereigne lorde
  1569, Richard Grafton, A Chronicle at Large, and Meere History of the Affayres of Englande, […], London: […] Henry Denham, […], for Richarde Tottle and Humffrey Toye; republished in Grafton’s Chronicle; or, History of England. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] [George Woodfall] for J[oseph] Johnson; […], 1809,