adventry

[ADVENTURE.] An adventure, an enterprise. "Act a brave work; call it thy last adventry ." B. Jonson: Epig. avvento; all from Lat. adventum, supine of advenio.] [ADVENE.] IMG:content-0204.png:[blocks in formation] 2. Ordinary Language (in a respectful or in a mock-heroic sense): The coming of any merely human personage, or of people, to a place. changed habits of life which always follow from the advent of Europe ans."-Darwin: Descent of Man, pt. 1, ch. vii. "When it was known that no succour was to be expected from the hero whose advent had been fore for told by so many seers, the Irish who were shut up in Galway lost all heart."-Macaulay: Hist . Eng., ch. xvii. II. The time when a coming takes place. Spec . ( in the Ecclesiastical Calendar): The season of the year when the Roman Catholic, the English, and various other churches commemorate the first and anticipate the second coming of Christ. It comprises four Sun days, and commences on the one which precedes, or that which follows, St. Andrew's Day (November 30), or on St. Andrew's Day itself. IMG:content-0205.png:[blocks in formation] the season of Advent. "I do also daily use one other collect, as, namely, the collects adventual, quadragesimal, paschal, or pentecostal, for their proper seasons."- Bishop Saun derson.