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▪ I. misˈventure, n. Now arch.
[mis-1 4.]
An unfortunate venture; a mischance, misadventure.
1563T. Hill Art Garden. (1574) A iv b, Whosoeuer thou be, That by misuenture or by will, shall chaunce this booke to see. 1755Smollett Quix. iii. v. I. 108 All the misventures, which have this day happened to us, are designed as a punishment for the sins committed by your worship. 1831Fraser's Mag. III. 131 From among so many shipwrecks and misventures one goodly vessel comes to land. 1858Carlyle Fredk. Gt. vi. i. II. 136 Pranks enough, and misventures,—half-drowning ‘in the mill-race at Annamoe in Ireland’, for one.
¶ In allusion to Cervantes' use of desventura (see disventure): Foolish ‘adventure’.
1839J. M. Wilson Tales Borders V. 96/2 Like all good knights of misventure, I fainted and fell down upon the floor. 1881A. J. Duffield tr. Don Quixote I. v. 61 My honoured uncle would read those impious books of misventures.
▪ II. † misˈventure, v. Obs. rare—1.
[mis-1 1.]
trans. To risk in bad investments.
1677A. Yarranton Eng. Improv. 20 Moneys misventur'd by trusting and bad Securities. |