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adventurousadj. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French aventurous, aventureux. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman aventurous, aventurus, aventeurus, aventerus, aventrus and Old French aventuros, Old French, Middle French aventureus, Middle French aventureux (French aventureux ) perilous, dangerous (a1170 in Old French as avantureus ), seeking adventure, given to adventures, bold, daring (13th cent.; often with implication of rashness), accidental, fortuitous (13th cent.), unpredictable (early 14th cent. or earlier) < avanture , aventure adventure n. + -eus , -ous , -us -ous suffix. Compare Old Occitan aventuros, Spanish aventuroso (c1430), Portuguese aventuroso (14th cent.), Italian avventuroso (a1250 as †aventuroso).With the α. forms, which show syncope and are unparalleled in French, compare the β. forms at adventure n. The γ. forms show alteration after classical Latin ad- ad- prefix, as does Middle French adventureux (late 14th cent. or earlier); compare the γ. forms at adventure n. Attested earlier as a surname: John Auntrous (1310). 1. the world > action or operation > undertaking > [adjective] the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > [adjective] > energetic or enterprising c1330 Sir Degare (Auch.) 1006 in W. H. French & C. B. Hale (1930) 319 (MED) Iich am an aunterous kniȝt For to seche werre and fiȝt. c1440 (?a1400) l. 1624 Þe awntrouseste men þat to his oste lengede. 1509 S. Hawes xix. ix I wyll to the toure of Chyvalry, And for your sake become adventurous. 1575 J. Rolland ii. f. 21v With scharp sword, & Actis anterous, Diuers greit Kingis in feild he did vincus. 1634 T. Herbert 6 Sierra Leoon, a place in Afrique,..famous for refreshing that aduenturous Captaine Sir Francis Drake. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil 122 Embattel'd Squadrons and advent'rous Kings. View more context for this quotation a1797 E. Burke Ess. Abridgm. Eng. Hist. (rev. ed.) in (1812) V. 503 Five great bodies of that adventurous people under different and independent commanders. 1826 J. F. Cooper II. v. 85 Hawkeye gazed after the high-spirited and adventurous young man..in open admiration. 1861 T. Wright II. xiii. 17 Perhaps many an adventurous monk wandered over the intervening lands. 1929 S. Lewis xi. 106 A rather shaggy, very adventurous family..starting out to see all the world. 1990 A. Lurie ix. 105 Her books are full of girls who are as brave and adventurous as their brothers. 2004 D. Lodge iii. iv. 305 They had never been an adventurous couple and it was probably the safe banality of the place that had attracted them. 1617 F. Moryson iii. 9 The most ancient Lawgivers, got the experience..not by secure study at home, but by adventurous travels abroad. 1787 Dec. 1174 Amid the distraction of an active and adventurous life, leisure may always he found for the cultivation of letters. 1820 J. Clare 26 Sept. (1985) 96 Ere I relate it I will give my first starting adventure for it has been an adventurous day I assure you. 1878 R. L. Stevenson in Mar. 357 To lead an adventurous and honourable youth, and to settle..into a green and smiling age. 1895 16 Oct. 4/2 The Admiralty hopper barge..had an adventurous voyage. 1928 May (Front Insert) A..super-sleuth of the secret service tells the story of his adventurous dealings with the underworld of all nations. 1998 S. Faulks iv. vii. 488 He described his journey to Marseille, but left out the more adventurous episodes. 2. the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > [adjective] > full of risk a1375 (c1350) (1867) l. 921 (MED) Auntrose is þin euel, ful wonderliche it þe weues. a1450 (?c1421) J. Lydgate (Arun.) (1911) l. 3480 (MED) Al of accord..Took on hem this auenturous [a1475 Trin. Cambr. O.5.2 auentures, c1485 BL Add. 5140 aventours] emprise. 1487 (a1380) J. Barbour (St. John's Cambr.) viii. 495 The auenturiss of the castell [1489 Adv. awenturus castell off] douglas That to kepe so perelous was. a1500 (?c1450) xxviii. 562 (MED) His felowes..ride forth towarde the Castell de lespine, for that it was the more auenturouse than eny other wey. 1575 J. Rolland ii. f. 27v He..forder can proceid..Be mony way baith ewill and anterous. 1637 J. Milton 4 To passe through this adventrous glade. 1777 56 532 A planisphere..to guide the pilots in the course of this adventurous navigation. 1847 July 367 I came the route by the rapids, the quickest, but most adventurous route. 1946 12 Aug. 15/2 (caption) Mishaps mark adventurous trail to the altar when eloping. 2002 J. H. Brubaker 182/1 Many of the lumber rafts stopped at Marietta, several miles downstream from the adventurous rapids at Conewago. the world > existence and causation > causation > chance or causelessness > [adjective] > prone to incur risk or venturesome the mind > emotion > courage > daring > venturousness > [adjective] c1475 Lerne or be Lewde (Harl. 5086) in (2002) i. 9 To Amerous, to Aunterous, ne Angre the nat to muche... A Mesurable Mene way ys beste for vs alle. 1598 W. Shakespeare i. iii. 189 As full of perill and aduenterous spirit, As to orewalke a Current roring lowd, On the vnstedfast footing of a speare. View more context for this quotation 1656 R. Sanderson 218 In these doubtful cases, it is safer to be too scrupulous then too adventurous. 1667 J. Milton ix. 921 Bold deed thou hast presum'd, adventrous Eve. View more context for this quotation 1710 R. Sutton Despatch 3 July in A. N. Kurat (1953) 18 It would be very adventurous to hazard his Person with them. 1794 R. J. Sulivan IV. 447 This..supersedes, in my opinion, every adventurous criticism..of late thrown upon the early knowledge of the Celts. 1875 W. D. Whitney ix. 169 We resort to adventurous hypotheses for its explanation. 1916 S. Cadman iii. x. 459 A rash and adventurous critic, without accurate information on many issues he presumed to determine. 1988 C. S. Gray xiii. 165 Although rollback sounds dangerously adventurous and lends itself easily to (mis)representation as such, mild variants of it have been attempted. the world > existence and causation > causation > chance or causelessness > [adjective] c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer (Hengwrt) (2003) §698 The dedes of batailles been Auenturouse [c1415 Corpus Oxf. aduenturous, c1415 Lansd. aduenterous] & no thyng certeyne. ?c1425 (c1380) G. Chaucer tr. Boethius (Cambr. Ii.3.21) (1886) i. pr. vi. 18 The gouernynge of it nis nat subiect..to þe folie of thise happes Auentros, but the resoun of God. 1595 E. Hoby tr. L.-V. de La Popelinière 134 It was far better to retire with honor, then to hazard ought vnder the hope of an vncertain & aduenterous good luck. 4. 1824 214 It is seldom that we find an adventurous composer deviating from the track of his predecessors. 1838 July 83 That hardy and adventurous thinker, Alexander Knox. 1925 May 242 Not to be interested in representing a just proportion of the most inventive adventurous artists of the day, certainly does suggest domination by a partisan organization. 1965 Feb. 21/2 An adventurous buyer deciding that model 127 is just the thing to zizz up his mid-season collection. 1996 (Nexis) 15 May Mick, whose wife is deteriorating from multiple sclerosis, meets the independent, sexually adventurous Florence and falls in love. 2006 Jan. 119/1 Fish is plentiful and beautifully fresh—some you'll have heard of and some you won't, so be adventurous. the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > newness or novelty > [adjective] > innovative or innovated 1841 Short Mem. in R. Wilson (ed. 2) 399 Caution, which restrains all excursive and adventurous thinking, and disposes the individual to keep close on the lee side of established opinions. 1884 G. A. Sala 274 The recipe..for ‘Macaroni and Bacon, cold’, is certainly a very adventurous dish; but I mean to try it when I reach home; it seems to promise something almost original. 1950 6 272/1 A curious assemblage of paintings, sculptures and more adventurous objects was to be seen in the basement of the Galerie René Drouin in Paris. 1968 R. V. Beste xi. 121 They had a more adventurous meal than the..vegetable chop suey and pancake rolls he usually ordered. 1996 (Nexis) 27 Feb. a13 They [sc. the handcuffs] had been purchased for adventurous sex. 2006 7 Dec. 148/1 A shotgun wedding he pulls off with his piano-bar poetry and adventurous compositions. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). <  adj.c1330 |
