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83 words match “ADVENTURE”

ADVENTURE n. 8 definitions

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.

ADVENTUREFUL a.

Given to adventure.

ADVENTURER n. 2 definitions

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

ADVENTURESOME a.

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

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

COADVENTURE n. 2 definitions

An adventure in which two or more persons are partakers.

COADVENTURER n.

A fellow adventurer.

DISADVENTURE n.

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

MISADVENTURE n.

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.

MISADVENTURED a.

Unfortunate. [Obs.]

PERADVENTURE adv. 2 definitions

By chance; perhaps; it may be; if; supposing. "If peradventure he speak against me." Shak. Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city. Gen. xviii. 24.

To receive with favor; to approve. The Lord accept thy burnt sacrifice. Ps. xx. 3. Peradventure he will accept of me. Gen. xxxii. 20.

toms himself to fraud in little things, wants only opportunity to practice it in greater. Adventurer.

d to his study. Beau. & Fl. That part of mankind that addict their minds to speculations. Adventurer. His genius addicted him to the study of antiquity. Fuller. A man gross . . . and addicted to low company. Macaulay.

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.

ANOTHER-GATES a.

Of another sort. [Obs.] "Another-gates adventure." Hudibras.

Trial by danger or by affliction; adventure; risk; hardship; state of being tried. [Obs.] Through many hard assays which did betide. Spenser.

Adventure; hap. [Obs.] In aunters, perchance.

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

g all interested. General average, a contribution made, by all parties concerned in a sea adventure, toward a loss occasioned by the voluntary sacrifice of the property of some of the parties in interest for the benefit of all. It is called general average, because it falls upon the gross amount of ship, cargo, and fre…