Aleatory

The word aleatory, whether used in its original and limited sense, or in its derived extension as a technical term of the civil law, was appropriate and convenient; one especially likely to be remembered by any person who had read Mr. Sumner's speech, -- and everybody had read it; the secretary himself doubtless got the suggestion of determining the question "by lot" from it. ❋ Oliver Wendell Holmes (1851)

Merely "aleatory" decision -- by actual use of dice -- he rejects as illicit, though towards the close of the book one of its most delectable episodes ends in his excusing Mr. Justice Bridoye for settling law cases in that way. ❋ George Saintsbury (1889)

The title says it all - "aleatory," meaning dependent on chance or luck. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I'd think these deals would be barred as aleatory contracts against public policy. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Taking care to cut out the original sound (which your participants must not hear at first or know from prior experience) show them the sequence several times, accompanied by these various musical pieces played over the images in an aleatory [random] manner. ❋ Ben Abraham (2009)

Without a dancer of Ms. Farrell's own daring and power at the center of her reconstruction of the aleatory "Pithoprakta," subtitled "Action by Probabilities," the chances of it staying with a viewer are slim. ❋ Robert Greskovic (2011)

The Institute of Medicine released a provocative and somewhat controversial report on calcium and vitamin D intake; the American Cancer Society announced results of an enormous study reaffirming the link between body mass index and mortality; there was at least aleatory passage of a historic food safety bill in Congress; and a long awaited update to federal policy governing child nutrition was passed and awaits the President's signature. ❋ M.D. David Katz (2010)

Nevertheless I was never propelled into an aleatory addiction to sub-genres like Sword & Sorcery or indiscriminate fantasies about magical this or that - Like any other genre or subgenre there's a great abundance that makes it hard to discern when a new "trilogy" or "chronicle" comes from as genuine a place as Tolkien's or derives from genuine fervor - religious or otherwise - like C.S. Lewis 'did. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Wolseley calls this aleatory way of working frottage, from the French verb to rub. ❋ Roger Deakin (2009)

Without these techniques, when software is written in a seat-of-the-pants, aleatory manner by untrained and unskilled people without proper techniques, bugs in the software are certain. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"Any system which purports to account for evolution must invoke a mechanism not mutational and aleatory." ❋ Unknown (2009)

And when there are problems (losing data, unreproducibility) they blame aleatory incidents rather than poor software architecture, even though such problems are utterly predictable (even if their detailed manifestation is aleatory) from the software architecture process used to develop the software.fsfsfsfsfsfsfsfs(Quote) ❋ Unknown (2009)

Two of these sets, all generated by computer, get paired off for comparison — and then readers vote online for a “winner,” doing so by assessing the poetic merits, for example, of the permuted lexicon, of the aleatory imagery, or of the oracular meaning, after which excerpts from the winning options go on to become randomly permuted with each other, generating new candidates for comparison. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Having spent a few years of my late adolescence burrowing into the music of John Cage, Stockhausen, Boulez and George Crumb -- being cool in 1974 required a lot of work -- I think I know the word you are looking for: aleatory, or aleatoric: "characterized by chance or indeterminate elements." ❋ Ann Althouse (2008)