Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Adventuring"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Adventure \Ad*ven"ture\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Adventured}; p.
pr. & vb. n. {Adventuring}.] [OE. aventuren, auntren, F.
aventurer, fr. aventure. See {Adventure}, n.]
1. To risk, or hazard; jeopard; to venture.

He would not adventure himself into the theater.
--Acts xix.
31.

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

Yet they adventured to go back. --Bunyan,

Discriminations might be adventured. --J. Taylor.


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