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- noun Obsolete spelling of
adventure .
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Examples
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Hogge: or any thinge elles that dieth of sickenesse, or by aduenture vnslain.
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Their Iudgementes and Sentences of lawe, are not there at giuen aduenture, but vpon reason: for thei surely thought that all thinges well done, muste niedes be profitable to mannes life.
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For thei holde opinion that who so accustometh his selfe neither to be Lorde ouer other, ne to wronge any bodie: that man hath prepared him selfe sauftie and ease what so euer shall happen hym by any aduenture.
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These burdens layed vpon our Generals before their going out, they haue patiently endured, and I thinke they haue thereby much enlarged their honour: for hauing done thus much with the want of our artillery, 600 horse, 3000 foot, and 20000 li. of their aduenture, and one moneths victuals of their proportion, what may be conjectured they would haue done with their ful complement?
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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And how that all the knights and Squires of both Realmes entended269 nothing else, but alwayes to be on the one part or of the other: whereby the Empire of Constantinople leeseth,270 and is like to leese; for before this warre the Knights and Squires were wont to aduenture themselues.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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The Captaine of her was an Italian, and by his behauiour seemed to be a graue, wise, and ciuill man: he had put an aduenture in this shippe fiue and twentie thousand Duckats, Wee tooke him with certaine other of her chiefest men (which were Spaniards) into the
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Candie and Cyprus come thither to lade the same, and it is greatly esteemed, especially of the Candiots, who hauing great abundance of wine aduenture abroad to seeke meate fitte for the taste of the sayd wine.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Indian Fleets: which seemed the more probable because the Spaniards were deemed not to be men of so small discretion as to aduenture those huge and monstrous ships vpon the shallow and dangerous chanel of England.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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But sithens they sawe that there was none other remedie but to abide the aduenture and fortune, they sayd that they put all to the sayd lord to doe what he thought good, and that hee would see what were best for them.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Then Mustafa Bassha being in despaire that he could do nothing by mines, by gunshot, nor by assaults, he being ready to depart for to goe into Surey by the great Turkes commandement, before his departing hee thought once againe to assay his aduenture, and made three assaults three dayes together.
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