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AdventistAdventist Ad"vent*ist, n.
One of a religious body, embracing several branches, who look
for the proximate personal coming of Christ; -- called also
Second Adventists. --Schaff-Herzog Encyc. AdventitiousAdventitious Ad`ven*ti"tious, a. [L. adventitius.]
1. Added extrinsically; not essentially inherent; accidental
or causal; additional; supervenient; foreign.
To things of great dimensions, if we annex an
adventitious idea of terror, they become without
comparison greater. --Burke.
2. (Nat. Hist.) Out of the proper or usual place; as,
adventitious buds or roots.
3. (Bot.) Accidentally or sparingly spontaneous in a country
or district; not fully naturalized; adventive; -- applied
to foreign plants.
4. (Med.) Acquired, as diseases; accidental. --
Ad`ven*ti"tious*ly, adv. -- Ad`ven*ti"tious*ness, n. AdventitiouslyAdventitious Ad`ven*ti"tious, a. [L. adventitius.]
1. Added extrinsically; not essentially inherent; accidental
or causal; additional; supervenient; foreign.
To things of great dimensions, if we annex an
adventitious idea of terror, they become without
comparison greater. --Burke.
2. (Nat. Hist.) Out of the proper or usual place; as,
adventitious buds or roots.
3. (Bot.) Accidentally or sparingly spontaneous in a country
or district; not fully naturalized; adventive; -- applied
to foreign plants.
4. (Med.) Acquired, as diseases; accidental. --
Ad`ven*ti"tious*ly, adv. -- Ad`ven*ti"tious*ness, n. AdventitiousnessAdventitious Ad`ven*ti"tious, a. [L. adventitius.]
1. Added extrinsically; not essentially inherent; accidental
or causal; additional; supervenient; foreign.
To things of great dimensions, if we annex an
adventitious idea of terror, they become without
comparison greater. --Burke.
2. (Nat. Hist.) Out of the proper or usual place; as,
adventitious buds or roots.
3. (Bot.) Accidentally or sparingly spontaneous in a country
or district; not fully naturalized; adventive; -- applied
to foreign plants.
4. (Med.) Acquired, as diseases; accidental. --
Ad`ven*ti"tious*ly, adv. -- Ad`ven*ti"tious*ness, n. Adventive
Adventive Ad*ven"tive, a.
1. Accidental.
2. (Bot.) Adventitious. --Gray.
Adventive
Adventive Ad*ven"tive, n.
A thing or person coming from without; an immigrant. [R.]
--Bacon.
Adventual
Adventual Ad*ven"tu*al (?; 135), a.
Relating to the season of advent. --Sanderson.
Adventure
Adventure Ad*ven"ture, v. i.
To try the chance; to take the risk.
I would adventure for such merchandise. --Shak.
AdventureAdventure 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. AdventuredAdventure 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. Adventureful
Adventureful Ad*ven"ture*ful, a.
Given to adventure.
Adventurer
Adventurer Ad*ven"tur*er, n. [Cf. F. aventurier.]
1. One who adventures; as, the merchant adventurers; one who
seeks his fortune in new and hazardous or perilous
enterprises.
2. A social pretender on the lookout for advancement.
AdventuresomeAdventuresome Ad*ven"ture*some, a.
Full of risk; adventurous; venturesome. --
Ad*ven"ture*some*ness, n. AdventuresomenessAdventuresome Ad*ven"ture*some, a.
Full of risk; adventurous; venturesome. --
Ad*ven"ture*some*ness, n. Adventuress
Adventuress Ad*ven"tur*ess, n.
A female adventurer; a woman who tries to gain position by
equivocal means.
AdventuringAdventure 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. AdventurousAdventurous Ad*ven"tur*ous, a. [OE. aventurous, aunterous, OF.
aventuros, F. aventureux, fr. aventure. See Adventure, n.]
1. Inclined to adventure; willing to incur hazard; prone to
embark in hazardous enterprise; rashly daring; -- applied
to persons.
Bold deed thou hast presumed, adventurous Eve.
--Milton.
2. Full of hazard; attended with risk; exposing to danger;
requiring courage; rash; -- applied to acts; as, an
adventurous undertaking, deed, song.
Syn: Rash; foolhardy; presumptuous; enterprising; daring;
hazardous; venturesome. See Rash. Adventurously
Adventurously Ad*ven"tur*ous*ly, adv.
In an adventurous manner; venturesomely; boldly; daringly.
Adventurousness
Adventurousness Ad*ven"tur*ous*ness, n.
The quality or state of being adventurous; daring;
venturesomeness.
Coadventure
Coadventure Co`ad*ven"ture (?; 135), n.
An adventure in which two or more persons are partakers.
Coadventure
Coadventure Co`ad*ven"ture, v. i.
To share in a venture. --Howell.
Coadventurer
Coadventurer Co`ad*ven"tur*er, n.
A fellow adventurer.
Disadventure
Disadventure Dis`ad*ven"ture (?; 135), n. [Pref. dis- +
adventure: cf. OF. desaventure.]
Misfortune; mishap. [Obs.] --Sir W. Raleigh.
Disadventurous
Disadventurous Dis`ad*ven"tur*ous, a.
Unprosperous; unfortunate. [Obs.] --Spenser.
Gross adventureGross Gross, a. [Compar. Grosser; superl. Grossest.] [F.
gros, L. grossus, perh. fr. L. crassus thick, dense, fat, E.
crass, cf. Skr. grathita tied together, wound up, hardened.
Cf. Engross, Grocer, Grogram.]
1. Great; large; bulky; fat; of huge size; excessively large.
``A gross fat man.' --Shak.
A gross body of horse under the Duke. --Milton.
2. Coarse; rough; not fine or delicate.
3. Not easily aroused or excited; not sensitive in perception
or feeling; dull; witless.
Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear.
--Milton.
4. Expressing, Or originating in, animal or sensual
appetites; hence, coarse, vulgar, low, obscene, or impure.
The terms which are delicate in one age become gross
in the next. --Macaulay.
5. Thick; dense; not attenuated; as, a gross medium.
6. Great; palpable; serious; vagrant; shameful; as, a gross
mistake; gross injustice; gross negligence.
7. Whole; entire; total; without deduction; as, the gross
sum, or gross amount, the gross weight; -- opposed to
net.
Gross adventure (Law) the loan of money upon bottomry, i.
e., on a mortgage of a ship.
Gross average (Law), that kind of average which falls upon
the gross or entire amount of ship, cargo, and freight; --
commonly called general average. --Bouvier. --Burrill.
Gross receipts, the total of the receipts, before they are
diminished by any deduction, as for expenses; --
distinguished from net profits. --Abbott.
Gross weight the total weight of merchandise or goods,
without deduction for tare, tret, or waste; --
distinguished from neat, or net, weight. Misadventured
Misadventured Mis`ad*ven"tured, a.
Unfortunate. [Obs.]
Misadventurous
Misadventurous Mis`ad*ven"tur*ous, a.
Unfortunate.
PeradventurePeradventure Per`ad*ven"ture, adv. & conj. [OE. per aventure,
F. par aventure. See Per, and Adventure.]
By chance; perhaps; it may be; if; supposing. ``If
peradventure he speak against me.' --Shak.
Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city.
--Gen. xviii.
24. Peradventure
Peradventure Per`ad*ven"ture, n.
Chance; hap; hence, doubt; question; as, proved beyond
peradventure. --South.
Second AdventistsAdventist Ad"vent*ist, n.
One of a religious body, embracing several branches, who look
for the proximate personal coming of Christ; -- called also
Second Adventists. --Schaff-Herzog Encyc.
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