1984 May, “Spyplane”, inCrash[1], number 4, (review):
The first thing to strike me about Spyplane was that it is more like a verbal simulation than anadventure.
1988 May, Mike Gerrard, “The Guild of Thieves[review]”, inYour Sinclair[2], number29, archived fromthe original on26 May 2013:
To sum up, I think this is definitely one of the bestadventures around for the Spectrum now, along withGnome Ranger[...]
1992 October, Larry Horsfield, “The SU Guide to Playing and Writing Adventure Games”, inSinclair User, number128:
Before you sit down in front of your Speccy to play anadventure, equip yourself with a pencil, eraser and plenty of paper. This so that you may draw a 'map' of the adventure as you move around.
daring feat; a bold undertaking, in which dangers are likely to be encountered, and the issue is staked upon unforeseen events and the encountering of risks
The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions atWiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.
O man cõmyttynge thy lyfe vnto the ſtreme / Alas note well thy deſyrous vanyte / Howe thou the[thee]auentereſt in holowe beame / To pas the ſee in contynuall ieopardye[…]
And certaine of the chiefe of Aſia, which were his friends, ſent vnto him, deſiring him that he would notaduenture himſelfe into the Theatre.
1725,John Strype, “The Earl of ’’Worcester’’ Goes into France, to Assist at the Christening of the ’’French’’ King’s Daughter.[…]”, inAnnals of the Reformation and Establishment of Religion, and Other Various Occurrences in the Church of England;[…], volume II, London:[…] Tho[mas] Edlin,[…],→OCLC,page174:
And they only deſired a Permiſſion from the Queen. And the Queen had much ado to detain them fromadventuring themſelves thither:[…]
Weadventured ourselves into the unknown recesses of the house, and sat gingerly on greasy horsehair-seated chairs, in the parlour,[…]
1973, Alice Yardley, “[Index] Discovering the Physical World”, inYoung Children Thinking, New York, N.Y.: Citation Press,→ISBN,page142:
Teachers whose powers of mathematical and scientific thought are undeveloped may feel encouraged by these records toadventure themselves into the child’s wonderful world of discovery.
c.1571,Edmund Campion, edited by A[lphonsus] F[ranciscus] Vossen,Two Bokes of the Histories of Ireland[…], Assen, Drenthe: Van Gorcum & Comp N.V.[…], published1963,→OCLC,page28:
[A]fter the confusion of tongues, whenJaphet and his posteretie, emboldened by example ofNoe,adventured by shipp into diverse west ilelandes,[…]
Why, we wil ſet forth before or after them, and appoint them a place of meeting, wherein it is at our pleaſure to faile; and then wil theyaduenture vpõ the exploit themſelues, which they ſhal haue no ſooner atchieued but weele ſet vpon them.
1689,John Flavell, “Sermon V.Revel[ation] 3. 20.Behold I stand at the door[and knock] &c”, inEnglands Duty, under the Present Gospel Liberty. From Revel. III. Vers. 20.[…], London:[…] Matthew Wotton[…],→OCLC,page171:
It was plainly told thee what the iſſue of thy rejectingChriſt would be, and yet after ſufficient warning, thouadventuredſt upon it;[…]
By this Time theSpider wasadventured out when beholding the Chaſms, and Ruins, and Dilapidations of his Fortreſs, he was very near at his Wit’s end, he ſtormed and ſwore like a Mad-man, and ſwelled till he was ready to burſt.
Now Harold felt himself at length alone, / And bade to Christian tongues a long adieu; / Now headventur’d on a shore unknown, / Which all admire, but many dread to view:[…]
He gave Kitty advice about everything; he tramped the hills with the dogs, carrying a shot-gun that he never used; and headventured upon a recently recommended diet of buttermilk and hickory-nuts.
1957 July, M. D. Greville, “A Diamond Jubilee of Railway Memories”, inRailway Magazine, page459:
In 1903, I hadadventured, for the first time, northwards, and it really was the North, as my objective was the Great North of Scotland Railway.
1992 July–August,Option, number45, Los Angeles, Calif.: Sonic Options Network,→ISSN,→OCLC, page33, column 2:
The album sees the bandadventuring into new territories.
Yet theyadventured to go back; but it was ſo dark, and the flood was ſo high, that in their going back, they had like to have been drowned nine or ten times.
The year following the ſaid[William] Warham was tranſlated to Canterbury, at whoſe inthronization ſomething occurred relating to this Univerſity; which though a little out of the road, yet I ſhalladventure to remember it, and it is this.
These impure pictures are from the same illustrious and impious hands thatadventured to call before us the august forms of Apostles and Saints, the Blessed Mother of the Redeemer, and her Son, at his death, and in his glory, and even the awfulness of Him to whom the martyrs, dead a thousand years ago, have not yet dared to raise their eyes.
1802 June 22,[James Cheetham], “Introduction”, inA View of the Political Conduct ofAaron Burr, Esq., Vice-President of the United States, New York, N.Y.:[…] Denniston & Cheetham,[…],→OCLC,page 5:
But were I toadventure an opinion I would affirm that, were the Vice-Preſident now in this city, he would himſelf be mute!
‘Did he tell you about us?’ sheadventured, cautiously.
1986,[Ernest] Gordon Rupp, “Conversations”, inReligion in England 1688–1791 (Oxford History of the Christian Church), Oxford, Oxfordshire:Clarendon Press,→ISBN, part I (‘Names and Sects and Parties’), chapter 5 (Church of England Men),pages77–78:
[William] Wake’s immense correspondence on behalf of Christian unity has been analysed fully, if not definitively, byNorman Sykes, and related to the situations in France, Switzerland, and Germany, but we mayadventure a comment upon it without recapitulating an intricate, and like ecumenical narratives generally, often tedious, story.
1528,Thomas More, “A Dialogue Concernynge Heresyes & Matters of Religion[…]. The .16. Chapiter. The Messẽger Rehearseth Some Causes Which He Hath Herd Laid by Some of yͤ Clergie:[…].”, in Wyllyam Rastell [i.e.,William Rastell], editor,The Workes of Sir Thomas More Knyght,[…], London:[…]Iohn Cawod, Iohn Waly, andRicharde Tottell, published30 April 1557,→OCLC, book III,page245, column 2:
Now if it ſo be that it woulde happely be thought not a thyng metely to beaduentured to ſet all on a fluſhe at ones, and daſhe raſhelye out holye ſcrypture in euerye lewde felowes teeth:[…]
In that time of respite and hope, when because of the deeds of the Mormegil the power of Morgoth was stemmed west of Sirion, Morwen fled at last from Dor-lómin with Nienor her daughter, andadventured the long journey to Thingol’s halls.
The first object was to bring within forseeable and moderate limits the risks to be undertaken by the shipowner when headventured his ship on a commercial enterprise.
2002, Robert Armstrong, “Ireland at Westminster: the Long Parliament’s Irish Committees, 1641–1647”, in Chris R. Kyle, Jason Peacey, editors,Parliament at Work: Parliamentary Committees, Political Power, and Public Access in Early Modern England, Woodbridge, Suffolk:The Boydell Press,→ISBN,page83:
Expanded to embrace all MPs who hadadventured money, it had operated in cojunction with a London-based adventurers’ committee in what was intended as, in effect, a private enterprise expedition.
The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions atWiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.
, Oxford:Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
