Emily Dickinson Lexicon

AD-VANT'A-GED, pp.

Benefited; promoted.

AD-VANT-A'GEOUS, a.

Being of advantage; furnishing convenience, or opportunity to gain benefit; gainful; profitable; useful; beneficial; as, an advantageous position of the troops; trade is advantageous to a nation.

AD-VANT-A'GEOUS-LY, adv.

In an advantageous manner; profitably; usefully; conveniently. Arbuthnot.

AD-VANT-A'GEOUS-NESS, n.

The quality or state of being advantageous; profitableness; usefulness; convenience. Boyle.

AD-VANT'AG-ING, ppr.

Profiting; benefiting.

AD-VENE', v.i. [L. advenio, to come to, ad and venio.]

To accede, or come to; to be added to, or become a part of, though not essential. [Little used.]

AD-VE'NI-ENT, a.

Advening; coming from outward causes.

AD'VENT, n. [L. adventus from advenio, of ad and venio, to come. See Find.]

A coming; appropriately the coming of our Savior, and in the calendar, it includes four sabbaths before Christmas, beginning on St. Andrew's day, or on the sabbath next before or after it. It is intended as a season of devotion, with reference to the coming of Christ in the flesh, and his second coming to judge the world. Encyc.

AD-VENT'INE, a.

Adventitious. [Not used.] Bacon.

AD-VEN-TI'TIOUS, a. [L. adventitius, from advenio. See Advent.]

Added extrinsically; accidental; not essentially inherent; casual; foreign. Diseases of continuance get an adventitious strength from custom. Bacon.

AD-VEN-TI'TIOUS-LY, adv.

Accidentally.

AD-VEN-TITIOUS-NESS, n.

The state of being adventitious.

AD-VENT'IVE, a.

Accidental; adventitious. [Little used.] Bacon.

AD-VENT'IVE, n.

The thing or person that comes from without. [Little used.] Bacon.

AD-VENT'U-AL, a.

Relating to the season of advent. Saunderson.

AD-VENT'URE, n. [Fr. aventure, from advenio. See Advent.]

1. Hazard; risk; chance; that of which one has no direction; as, at all adventures, that is, at all hazards. [See Venture.]
2. An enterprise of hazard; a bold undertaking, in which hazards are to be encountered, and the issue is staked upon unforeseen events. Dryden.
3. That which is put to hazard; a sense in popular use with seamen, and usually pronounced venture. Something which a seaman is permitted to carry abroad, with a view to sell for profit. A bill of adventure, is a writing signed by a person, who takes goods on board of his ship, wholly at the risk of the owner. Encyc.

AD-VENT'URE, v.i.

To dare; to try the chance; as, to adventure on "the tempestuous sea of liberty."

AD-VENT'URE, v.t.

To risk, or hazard; to put in the power of unforeseen events; as, to adventure one's life. [See Venture.]

AD-VENTURE-FUL, a.

Given to adventure; full of enterprise. Bentham.

AD-VENT'URE-SOME, a.

Bold; daring; incurring hazard. [See Venturesome.]

AD-VENT'URE-SOME-NESS, n.

The quality of being bold and venturesome.

AD-VENT'UR-ING, ppr.

Putting to risk; hazarding.

AD-VENT'UR-OUS, a. [Fr. aventureux.]

1. Inclined, or willing to incur hazard; bold to encounter danger; daring; courageous; enterprising: applied to persons.
2. Full of hazard; attended with risk; exposing to danger; requiring courage: applied to things; as, an adventurous undertaking. And followed freedom on the adventurous tide. Trumbull.

AD-VENT'UR-OUS-LY, adv.

Boldly; daringly; in a manner to incur hazard.

AD-VENT'UR-OUS-NESS, n.

The act or quality of being adventurous.