I would adventure for such merchandise. --Shak.
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.
Nay, a far less good to man it will be found, if she
must, at all adventures, be fastened upon him
individually. --Milton.
2. Risk; danger; peril. [Obs.]
He was in great adventure of his life. --Berners.
3. The encountering of risks; hazardous and striking
enterprise; a bold undertaking, in which hazards are to be
encountered, and the issue is staked upon unforeseen
events; a daring feat.
He loved excitement and adventure. --Macaulay.
4. A remarkable occurrence; a striking event; a stirring
incident; as, the adventures of one's life. --Bacon.
5. A mercantile or speculative enterprise of hazard; a
venture; a shipment by a merchant on his own account.
{A bill of adventure} (Com.), a writing setting forth that
the goods shipped are at the owner's risk.
Syn: Undertaking; enterprise; venture; event.