adventuredst

Verb

adventure (third-person singular simple present adventures, present participle adventuring, simple past and past participle adventured)

1. (archaic, reflexive) 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 […]1509 December 24 (Gregorian calendar), [Sebastian Brant], translated by Alexander Barclay, “Of Folysshe Exchanges Scorsyngꝭ ⁊ Ꝑmutacions”, in […] The Shyp of Folys of the Worlde […], London: […]...

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2. (intransitive) 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, […]c. 1571, Edmund Campion, edited by A[lphonsus] F[ranciscus] Vossen, Two Bokes of the Histories of Ireland […], Assen, Drenthe: Van Gorcum & Comp N.V. […], published 1963, →OCLC, page 28

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3. (archaic, intransitive, with infinitive) 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.c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...

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4. (transitive) 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!1802 June 22, [James Cheetham], “Introduction”, in A View of the Political Conduct of Aaron Burr, Esq., Vice-President of the United States, New York, N.Y.: […] Denniston & Cheetham, […], →OCLC, page...

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5. (archaic, transitive) 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: […]1528, Thomas More, “A Dialogue Concernynge Heresyes & Matters of Religion […]. The .16. Chapiter. The Messẽger Rehearseth Some Causes Which He Hath Herd Laid by Some of yͤ Clergie: […].”, in Wyllyam...

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6. (transitive) To risk or hazard; jeopard.
   • Foꝛ what wiſe merchaunt aduentureth all his good in one ſhip?c. 1513 (date written), Thomas More, “The History of King Richard the Thirde (Vnfinished) […]”, in Wyllyam Rastell [i.e., William Rastell], editor, The Workes of Sir Thomas More Knyght, […], London...

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