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

Full of hazard; attended with risk; exposing to danger; requiring courage; rash; -- applied to acts; as, an adventurous undertaking, deed, song.

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

A word used to modify the sense of a verb, participle, adjective, or other adverb, and usually placed near it; as, he writes well; paper extremely white.

Of or pertaining to an adverb; of the nature of an adverb; as, an adverbial phrase or form.

The quality of being adverbial. Earle.

To give the force or form of an adverb to.

In the manner of an adverb.

A miscellaneous collection of notes, remarks, or selections; a commonplace book; also, commentaries or notes. These parchments are supposed to have been St. Paul's adversaria. Bp. Bull.

osite; conflicting; as, adverse winds; an adverse party; a spirit adverse to distinctions of caste.

The quality or state of being adverse; opposition.

The act of adverting, of the quality of being advertent; attention; notice; regard; heedfulness. To this difference it is right that advertence should be had in regulating taxation. J. S. Mill.

To give notice to; to inform or apprise; to notify; to make known; hence, to warn; -- often followed by of before the subject of information; as, to advertise a man of his loss. [Archaic] I will advertise thee what this people shall do. Num. xxiv. 14.

The act of informing or notifying; notification. [Archaic] An advertisement of danger. Bp. Burnet.

An opinion recommended or offered, as worthy to be followed; counsel. We may give advice, but we can not give conduct. Franklin.

The quality of being advisable; advisableness.

The quality of being advisable or expedient; expediency; advisability.

To give advice to; to offer an opinion, as worthy or expedient to be followed; to counsel; to warn. "I shall no more advise thee." Milton.

Counsel; advise; information. [Archaic] And mused awhile, waking advisement takes of what had passed in sleep. Daniel.

The office of an adviser. [R.]