| 单词 | at adventure |
| 释义 | > as lemmasat adventure (also adventures) ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > chance or causelessness > [adverb] > randomly or haphazardly into uncertain1382 uncertainlya1387 at adventure (also adventures)c1390 at or on six and sevena1398 auntersa1450 at all adventure (also adventures)1485 by hab or by nab1530 at rovers (rarely rover)c1531 hab or nab1542 hitty-missy1553 rovingly1583 haphazard1600 random1619 unsight, unseena1627 happy-be-lucky1633 cross and pile1648 temerariously1669 happy-go-lucky1672 à tort et à travers1749 randomly1765 chance-medley1822 haphazardly1832 willy-nilly1908 by guess and by God (or Godfrey)1931 c1390 in F. J. Furnivall Minor Poems Vernon MS (1901) ii. 716 (MED) Scharpe wawes þat Schip has sayled, And sayed alle sees at auentur. c1440 (?a1400) Morte Arthure l. 2543 (MED) They..Cowpen at awntere be kraftes of armes. 1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. cxcii. 228 Certayn of the garyson..rode forthe at aduenture somwhat to wyn. 1577 H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. I. ii. x. sig. P.ijv/1 Some..marrie at aduentures to their owne decay, and vtter destruction. a1681 W. Lilly Catastrophe Mundi (1683) 4 A Geomantical or Terrestrial Divination, in which from certain voluntary Pricks or Points made by the hand at Adventure, certain Figures are raised. 1742 D. Hume Ess. Moral & Polit. II. ix. 141 Shall this Business be allow'd to go altogether at Adventures? 1882 Cent. Mag. Apr. 863/2 That pamphlet, bought at a railway station, perhaps, by some man who purchases at adventure, may do more to cultivate the love of beauty..than many great volumes of theology. < as lemmas |
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