adventure

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A feeling of desire for new and exciting things.

   • his sense of adventure
2. 2

   A remarkable occurrence

   A remarkable occurrence; a striking event.

   • a life full of adventures
3. 3

   A daring feat

   A daring feat; a bold undertaking, in which dangers are likely to be encountered, and the issue is staked upon unforeseen events; the encountering of risks.

   • He loved excitement and adventure.
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   1. 4

      A mercantile or speculative enterprise of hazard

      A mercantile or speculative enterprise of hazard; a venture; a shipment by a merchant on his own account.

   2. 5

      A text adventure or an adventure game.

      • The first thing to strike me about Spyplane was that it is more like a verbal simulation than an adventure.
      • To sum up, I think this is definitely one of the best adventures around for the Spectrum now, along with Gnome Ranger[...]
      • Before you sit down in front of your Speccy to play an adventure, equip yourself with a pencil, eraser and plenty of paper. This so that you may draw a 'map' of the adventure as you move around.
   3. 6

      That which happens by chance

      That which happens by chance; hazard; hap.

   4. 7

      Chance of danger or loss.

   5. 8

      Risk

      Risk; danger; peril.

      • He was in great adventure of his life.
   6. 9

      To risk oneself.

      • O man cõmyttynge thy lyfe vnto the ſtreme / Alas note well thy deſyrous vanyte / Howe thou the [thee] auentereſt in holowe beame / To pas the ſee in contynuall ieopardye […]
      • And certaine of the chiefe of Aſia, which were his friends, ſent vnto him, deſiring him that he would not aduenture himſelfe into the Theatre.
      • And they only deſired a Permiſſion from the Queen. And the Queen had much ado to detain them from adventuring themſelves thither: […]
   7. 10

      To risk oneself

      To risk oneself; to dare to go somewhere or undertake something.

      • [A]fter the confusion of tongues, when Japhet and his posteretie, emboldened by example of Noe, adventured by shipp into diverse west ilelandes, […]
      • It was plainly told thee what the iſſue of thy rejecting Chriſt would be, and yet after ſufficient warning, thou adventuredſt upon it; […]
   8. 11

      To try the chance

      To try the chance; to take the risk.

      • What? threat you me with telling of the King? I will auoucht’t in preſence of the King: I dare aduenture to be ſent to th’Towre.
      • Yet they adventured to go back; but it was ſo dark, and the flood was ſo high, that in their going back, they had like to have been drowned nine or ten times.
      • The year following the ſaid [William] Warham was tranſlated to Canterbury, at whoſe inthronization ſomething occurred relating to this Univerſity; which though a little out of the road, yet I ſhall adventure to remember it, and it is this.
   9. 12

      To dare to say or utter.

      • But were I to adventure an opinion I would affirm that, were the Vice-Preſident now in this city, he would himſelf be mute!
      • ‘Did he tell you about us?’ she adventured, cautiously.
   10. 13

       To venture upon

       To venture upon; to run the risk of; to dare.

       • Now if it ſo be that it woulde happely be thought not a thyng metely to be aduentured to ſet all on a fluſhe at ones, and daſhe raſhelye out holye ſcrypture in euerye lewde felowes teeth: […]
       • Discriminations might be adventured.
       • The epic is one that could be adventured nowhere else; only this region affords the conditions.
   11. 14

       To risk or hazard

       To risk or hazard; jeopard.

       • Foꝛ what wiſe merchaunt aduentureth all his good in one ſhip?
       • So it is reaſon, that wher the citizen aduentureth his lyfe, there the citie ſhould doe him ſome honor after his death.
       • For the love of one thou adventuredst thy life and the very existence of thy house and name.

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