单词 | adventuring |
释义 | adventuringn. 1. The action of adventure v.; (originally) risking, hazarding, venturing; (now usually) seeking or having adventures. ΚΠ a1500 tr. A. Chartier Famylyer Dyaloge Freende & Felaw (Sion Coll. London) (1989) 9 Feerful and hedy aventuryng, medled with presumpcion and ynyquite, ys now called the vertu of strengthe. 1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. f. cclxx/2 And so by his hardynesse, & to moche aduenturyng he was slayne. 1574 J. Baret Aluearie A 142 A proouing or aduenturing: a ieoparding. Periclitatio. 1605 R. Verstegan Restit. Decayed Intelligence vi. 170 Knowing the crown of England to bee more woorth then to be let slip for the aduenturing for. 1683 London Gaz. mdccclvi/3 Your Majesties Subjects and Soldiers shall be always ready in the adventuring of our Lives. 1704 Lives, Eng. & Forein I. 88 His example put Mr. Raleigh on Adventuring. 1777 Ann. Reg. 1776 49/2 The vastness of the distance, and the adventuring to a new world, were terrifying. 1819 Literary Panorama Feb. 91 Men speedily launched their barks—and gained considerably by their adventuring. 1894 London Society Mar. 235 It was to her, like the adventuring of a ship into an unknown sea. 1920 S. Lewis Main St. xxx. 360 She was furious and frightened,..certain that Kennicott would read her adventuring in her face. 1971 N. Brown Antarctic Housewife ix. 92 The high adventuring of the whale-catchers. 2002 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 10 Mar. v. 18/1 El Questro [resort] has enough activities for a lifetime of adventuring. 2. Participation in an interactive narrative as part of a role-playing game (in later use frequently on a computer); the playing of adventure games. Cf. adventure n. 4c. ΚΠ 1977 T. Nelson Home Computer Revol. 202 A system for imagined adventuring in an imaginary castle. 1982 Keystone Folklore (Pennsylvania Folklore Soc.) 1 No. 1 15 Players outfit their characters with armor, weapons, rations, magical amulets, and organize into a party in order to begin the adventuring. 1999 J. Malloy in C. Harris Art & Innovation 103 Spawned by a multi-user adventuring program written in 1979 by students at the University of Essex in England, MUDs have remained for the most part recreational. 2005 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 15 Oct. (Computers section) 15 Dragonshard is the first to bring together the resource management of a real-time strategy game with the immersive adventuring of a D&D romp. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). adventuringadj. That adventures (in various senses of adventure v.); that lives as an adventurer; daring, venturesome, audacious. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > chance or causelessness > [adjective] > prone to incur risk or venturesome adventuringc1440 adventurousc1475 adventuresome1628 c1440 (?a1400) Morte Arthure l. 2717 (MED) Thane tha awntrende men ‘as armes!’ askryes. 1581 W. Blandie Castle sig. Hiijv Herehence ye famous companies of aduenturing Marchauntes floweth [which buy and sell wares]. 1607 E. Grimeston tr. Gen. Inuentorie Hist. France ii. liv. 185 He came into Champaigne, to subdue a part of these aduenturing theeues. 1677 M. Hale Contempl. ii. 86 It is made more bold, and confident, and adventuring. 1710 Ld. Shaftesbury Soliloquy 53 Those Philosophical Sea-Cards by which the adventuring Genius's of the times were won't to steer their Courses. 1796 E. Burke Two Lett. Peace Regicide Directory France ii, in Wks. (1808) VIII. 243 A body of active, adventuring, ambitious, discontented people. 1840 T. P. Thompson Exercises (1842) V. 248 The adventuring detachment has been allowed to move out unchecked. 1861 G. Meredith Evan Harrington II. xiv. 261 The commonest of low, vile, adventuring tradesmen! 1921 Munsey's Mag. Dec. 528/1 An adventuring woman, product of dance-hall and gaming-resort. 1993 Sci. Fiction Age Jan. 13/3 Pulp novels and B-movies in the form of stories featuring the adventuring con man Lucifer Jones. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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