adventure, aventure

[Fr. aventure; Ital. avventura, from Lat. advent urus fut. part. of advenio.] [AUNTER.] A. Ordinary Language: I. The act of venturing or hazarding, hazard (followed by of or standing alone). "The adventure of her person." Shakesp.: Winter's Tale, v. 1. "He loved excitement and adventure."-Macaulay: Hist. Eng ., ch. xii. At all adventures: At all hazards, at all risks. "Where the mind does not perceive probable connection, there men's opinions are the effects of chance without choice and without direction." Locke. and hazard: of a mind floating at all adventures, II. That which constitutes the venture or hazard. IMG:content-0206.png:[blocks in formation] Comm. ( especially by sea) : That which is put to hazard; a ship or goods sent to sea at the risk of the sender. reserving to himself only one-tenth part of the gains of the adventure."-Macaulay: Hist. Eng., ch. xxv. More usually VENTURE (q.v.). A bill of adventure: A writing signed by one who receives goods on board his ve el at their owner's risk. Or a writing signed by a merchant, stating that the goods shipped in his name belong to another, to the adventure or chance of which the person so named is to stand.