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misadventurous, a.|mɪsædˈvɛntjʊərəs|
Also 5 mysauentrous.
[In the early quot. a. OF. mesaventureux; in the mod. instances f. misadventure + -ous.]
Unfortunate, unlucky.
c1400tr. Secreta Secret., Gov. Lordsh. 114 Kepe þe fro vche mysauentrous man, þat ys lesnyd of any membre. a1693Urquhart's Rabelais iii. xxii. 180 He was..so unfortunately misadventrous in the Lot of his own Destiny, that [etc.]. 1742C. Jarvis Don Quixote (1749) II. ii. i. 104 The obstinacy, with which he was bent upon the search of his misadventurous adventures. 1817Coleridge Biog. Lit. xx. (Bohn) 201 A few misadventurous attempts to translate the arts and sciences into verse. 1842H. Taylor Edwin the Fair iv. i. 180 Our misadventurous Synod.
Hence misadˈventurously adv., by misadventure.
1632Strafford in Browning Life (1891) 300, I am hartely sorrye for him and for myself too, that..should thus misaduenturousely light vpon a man, that [etc.]. |