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ausal; additional; supervenient; foreign. To things of great dimensions, if we annex an adventitious idea of terror, they become without comparison greater. Burke.

Adventitious. Gray.

Relating to the season of advent. Sanderson.

ce of danger or loss. Nay, a far less good to man it will be found, if she must, at all adventures, be fastened upon him individually. Milton.

Given to adventure.

One who adventures; as, the merchant adventurers; one who seeks his fortune in new and hazardous or perilous enterprises.

Full of risk; adventurous; venturesome. -- Ad*ven"ture*some*ness, n.

A female adventurer; a woman who tries to gain position by equivocal means.

Inclined to adventure; willing to incur hazard; prone to embark in hazardous enterprise; rashly daring; -- applied to persons. Bold deed thou hast presumed, adventurous Eve. Milton.

In an adventurous manner; venturesomely; boldly; daringly.

The quality or state of being adventurous; daring; venturesomeness.

The movable front to a helmet; the ventail.

Pertaining to Mons Aventinus, one of the seven hills on which Rome stood. Bryant.

To thrust forward (at a venture), as a spear. [Obs.] Spenser.

Accident; chance; adventure. [Obs.] Chaucer.

taining gold-colored spangles. It was produced in the first place by the accidental (par aventure) dropping of some brass filings into a pot of melted glass.

(Anat.) Having two bellies or protuberances; as, a biventral, or digastric, muscle, or the biventral lobe of the cerebellum.

A variant of Chieftain. [Obs.] Chaucer.

tage over by arts, stratagem, or deception; to decieve; to delude; to get around. I circumvented whom I could not gain. Dryden.

s, or fraud; deception; fraud; imposture; delusion. A school in which he learns sly circumvention. Cowper.