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The period including the four Sundays before Christmas. Advent Sunday (Eccl.), the first Sunday in the season of Advent, being always the nearest Sunday to the feast of St. Andrew (Now. 30). Shipley.

ral branches, who look for the proximate personal coming of Christ; -- called also Second Adventists. Schaff-Herzog Encyc.

causal; 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.

ance 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.

An adventure in which two or more persons are partakers.

A fellow adventurer.

Misfortune; mishap. [Obs.] Sir W. Raleigh.

Unprosperous; unfortunate. [Obs.] Spenser.

Mischance; misfortune; ill lick; unlucky accident; ill adventure. Chaucer. Homicide by misadventure (Law), homicide which occurs when a man, doing a lawful act, without any intention of injury, unfortunately kills another; -- called also excusable homicide. See Homicide. Blackstone.

Unfortunate. [Obs.]

Unfortunate.