misadventuren.

Brit.

/ˌmɪsədˈvɛntʃə/, U.S.

/ˌmɪsədˈvɛn(t)ʃər/

Forms: Middle English mes-auenter, Middle English mesauentour, Middle English mesauentur, Middle English mesauenture, Middle English messaventur, Middle English misauentour, Middle English misauentoure, Middle English misauentur, Middle English misauenture, Middle English misaventur, Middle English mysauentour, Middle English mysauentur, Middle English mysaventur, Middle English mysaventure, Middle English myssawenture, Middle English mysseadventure, Middle English mysse aventure, Middle English–1500s misaventeur, Middle English–1500s misaventour, Middle English–1500s mysaduenture, Middle English–1500s mysauentoure, Middle English–1500s mysauenture, Middle English–1500s 1800s misaventure (archaic), Middle English–1600s misaduenture, Middle English– misadventure, 1500s mesaduenture, 1500s misaventre, 1500s myssaventre; Scottish pre-1700 misaduentur, pre-1700 misauenture, pre-1700 misaventeur, pre-1700 misaventour, pre-1700 misaventur, pre-1700 misaventure, pre-1700 misawentur, pre-1700 missaventur, pre-1700 mysaventeur, pre-1700 mysaventour, pre-1700 mysaventur, pre-1700 mysaventure, pre-1700 mysawentoure, pre-1700 mysawentur, pre-1700 1700s– misadventure. See also misaunter n.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French mesaventure.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman mesaventure, meshaventure, Old French mesaventure mishap, misfortune (c1150), also in specific legal use in Anglo-Norman < mes- mis- prefix² + aventure adventure n., after mesavenir to turn out badly < mes- mis- prefix² + avenir (see advene v.). Compare disadventure n.As in the case of adventure n., the spelling with -ad- appears first in the 15th cent., but does not become prevalent until the end of the 16th cent., when the stress also finally settled in its present position.

a. Bad luck, misfortune. Chiefly as a count noun: a particular piece of bad luck; a mishap or misfortune.See also by misadventure at Phrases 3.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > adversity > calamity or misfortune > [noun] > misfortune or ill-luck

un-i-limpOE

unlimpc1175

mishap?c1225

unhap?c1225

mishappeningc1230

ames-ace?a1300

misadventure?a1300

ill hailc1300

misauntera1325

untiminga1325

miscasec1325

mischancec1325

misfall1340

misfarea1387

casec1390

infortunea1393

mishapping?a1400

unchancea1400

disadventurea1413

mischieving1432

infortuny?a1439

encumbermentc1440

misfortune1441

evil hail?c1450

malfortunea1470

unhappiness1470

maleurtee?1473

malheur?1473

evil health1477

unfortune1483

wanfortunea1500

disfortune1509

wanhap1513

ill, evil ch(i)eving?1518

mislucka1530

ill luck1548

unfortunacy?c1550

evilfare1556

unluck1556

hard luck1567

bad luck1575

miscasualty1588

disgrace1590

wanchance1599

disventure1612

misaccident1620

miscarriagec1625

hard lines1722

mishanter1754

malefit1755

miscanter1781

hard cheese1854

hard cheddar1893

schlimazel1911

tough luck1912

snake eyes1918

catch-arse1970

?a1300 Dame Sirith 202 in G. H. McKnight Middle Eng. Humorous Tales (1913) 10 Blesse þe, leue knaue! Leste þou mes-auenter haue For þis lesing.

c1300 SS. Philip & James (Laud) 11 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 364 (MED) Muche reuþe was into al þat lond of þis misauenture.

a1450 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Lamb.) (1887) i. 9218 & preye Iesu our Saueour To schulde vs fro mysauentour.

c1450 (?c1408) J. Lydgate Reson & Sensuallyte (1901) 4238 The sorrowes and mysaventures..That loves folkys ha suffred there.

a1500 Eng. Conquest Ireland (Rawl.) (1896) 69 (MED) Mysaduentures [a1525 Trin. Dub. mesaduentures] ne comyth neuer more al-oon.

a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 265 Hald God thy friend,..He will the confort in all misaventeur.

1599 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet v. i. 29 Your lookes are pale and wilde, and do import Some misaduenture .

1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i ii. xvii. §3. 480 All vnder the Sunne are subiect to worldly miseries and misaduentures.

1681 R. Boyle New Exper. Icy Noctiluca 79 The same Laborant..had a worse misadventure not long after.

1748 S. Richardson Clarissa III. lxxvi. 352 Such a one may suffer only in her pride, by being obliged to take up with a second-rate match..; and..be the happier..for the misadventure.

1797 E. Burke Three Memorials on French Affairs 99 The grand, solid body of an army..proceeded leisurely..to support the expedite body in case of misadventure.

a1822 P. B. Shelley tr. P. Calderon Scenes from Magico Prodigioso in Posthumous Poems (1824) 380 Among my misadventures This shipwreck is the least.

1868 Jrnl. Statist. Soc. 31 315 To be innocently taken in hold is a disagreeable thing, but it..is one of the misadventures, one of the accidental costs.

1885 Manch. Examiner 3 June 5/1 There was a mistake, or a misunderstanding, or a misadventure of some sort.

1937 D. L. Sayers Busman's Honeymoon Prothalamion 22 In spite of this misadventure, I had them at the chancel steps dead on time.

1959 Listener 18 June 1074/1 The Burrell Collection..is still, after a long saga of misadventures, looking for a site.

1991 Time 27 Feb. 50/1 It was the kind of misadventure that critics had predicted would occur..once the oddly assorted multinational forces went into battle.

b. An ill-conceived, misguided, or regrettable enterprise; an adventure which turns out badly.

ΚΠ

1646 G. Wither Opobalsum Anglicanum 5/1 The Prince..running away from The Kingdome, whereto he was praid to come, To make a misadventure into France.

1909 L. M. Montgomery Anne of Avonlea xix. 210 Anne's adventures and misadventures..did not all happen at once, but were sprinkled over the year.

1990 Debonair Jan. 23/1 Right moves like..ending India's Sri Lankan misadventure—and the new government will have earned itself a lot of goodwill and appreciation.

2000 Toronto Sun (Electronic ed.) 14 June ‘It happened eight years ago—and we're still trying to live it down,’ says Frank, of his dad's lottery misadventure.

2. Law. Fatal mishap or misfortune. Now chiefly in death by misadventure n. death caused accidentally, with or without the involvement of an (innocent) second party; similarly homicide by misadventure (chiefly U.S.).Cf. Phrases 3.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > death > killing > man-killing or homicide > [noun] > in law

manslaughtera1325

misadventurea1325

chance-medleya1513

death by misadventure1800

homicide by misadventure1800

c1290 Britton (1865) I. i. ii. §2. 8 Cum nule felounie ou mesauenture soit avenue.]

a1325 Statutes of Realm (2011) vi. 25 Ant alse it is ipurueid, þat no writ ne passe out of þe chauncelerie for dez of man for te enqueren, ȝif man slou oþer þoru mesauentur oþer him defendaunt oþer on oþere manere þoru felonie.

1509–10 Act 1 Hen. VIII c. 7 Yf eny persone hathe happened to be slayne by myssaventre and not by no mannys Hande.

1581 W. Stafford Compend. Exam. Complaints (1876) iii. 85 A man that had trespassed the lawe of misaduenture.

1614 F. Bacon Charge touching Duels 20 For the case of misaduenture it selfe, there were Citties of refuge.

a1626 F. Bacon Elements Common Lawes (1630) 30 If diuers bee in danger of drowning by the casting away of some boate..and one of them get to some plancke..and another to saue his life thrust him from it, whereby hee is drowned, this is neither se defendendo nor by misaduenture, but iustifiable.

1769 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. IV. iv. xiv. 182 Homicide per infortunium, or misadventure.

1769 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. IV. iv. xiv. 182 Where a parent is moderately correcting his child, a master his servant or scholar, or an officer punishing a criminal, and happens to occasion his death, it is only misadventure.

1800 A. Addison Rep. Cases Pennsylvania 8 Homicide by misadventure is an unlawful killing by accident.

1850 Commerc. Rev. South & West Mar. 295 The 17th section of the act of 1740 declares a slave, who shall be guilty of homicide of any sort upon any white person, except it be by misadventure,..shall, upon conviction, suffer death.

1891 O. Wilde Picture of Dorian Gray 137 An inquest was held this morning..on the body of Sibyl Vane, a young actress... A verdict of death by misadventure was returned.

1903 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Dec. 772/1 Death by misadventure in the ordinary execution of her duty.

1970 Speculum 45 (Advt. following p. 196) This study explains why the man who committed homicide by misadventure or in self-defense needed a pardon.

1986 R. Frame Long Weekend (1988) 37 Death was by drowning..the police termed the cause ‘misadventure’.

2000 Guardian 15 Sept. i. 12/7 The jury unanimously found Miss Humphreys..died of trichloroethanol poisoning and returned a verdict of death by misadventure.

Phrases

†P1. In imprecations and expressions of annoyance, esp. with misadventure!: = with mischance! at mischance n. Phrases 1a. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

c1300 (?c1225) King Horn (Cambr.) (1901) 326 Went [= go] vt of my bur Wiþ muchel mesauentur.

c1395 G. Chaucer Friar's Tale 1334 Pees, with myschaunce and with mysauenture!

a1450–1509 (?a1300) Richard Coer de Lyon (A-version) (1913) 6127 (MED) Þe Sarazynes, wiþ mysauentoure, Fledde into þe heyeste toure.

a1500 (?c1450) Merlin 68 (MED) Mysauenture haue that it kepeth eny counseile.

†P2. to bid (something) misadventure: to curse. to do (a person) misadventure: to bring disaster or ruin upon. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > malediction > [verb (transitive)]

waryc725

accurselOE

forcurse1154

cursec1175

for-waryc1175

bana1275

ashend1297

to bid (something) misadventurec1330

shrew1338

beshrew1377

maledighta1400

to fare (also go, come) to mischancec1400

defyc1430

destinya1450

condemn1489

detest1533

adjure1539

beshrompa1549

widdle1552

becurse1570

malison1588

consecrate1589

exaugurate1600

execrate1612

imprecate1616

blasta1634

damna1640

vote1644

to swear at ——1680

devote1749

maledict1780

comminate1801

bless1814

peste1824

cuss1863

bedamn1875

mugger1951

the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > destroy [verb (transitive)] > destroy or ruin a person

spillc950

amarOE

smitelOE

aspillc1175

mischievec1325

to bid (something) misadventurec1330

mara1375

fordoc1380

undo1390

wrack1564

to make roast meat of (also for)1565

wrake1567

wreck1590

speed1594

feeze1609

to do a person's business1667

cook1708

to settle a person's hash1795

diddle1806

to fix1836

raddle1951

c1330 (?a1300) Arthour & Merlin (Auch.) (1973) 4384 (MED) Boþe o lif & eke tresour Þai dede þe paiens misauentour.

c1330 (?a1300) Arthour & Merlin (Auch.) (1973) 8361 He..bad þe time mesauenture Þat he cunteked wiþ king Arthour.

P3. by misadventure: by an unlucky accident. Also at misadventure (now archaic).

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > adversity > calamity or misfortune > unfortunately [phrase] > by mischance

at misadventure?a1400

by misadventure?a1400

by mischance1535

?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) ii. 166 (MED) His nese & his ine he carfe at misauentoure.

a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll. 13) (1990) I. 302 All that evir thou doste is by mysseadventure and nat by proues of thy hondys.

1485 Malory's Morte Darthur (Caxton) iii. vii. sig. e^v And soo he smote of her hede by mysauenture [a1470 myssefortune].

1558 W. Forrest Hist. Grisild the Second (1875) x. 83 But God for hym had freendelye prepared As in his affayres neauer oughtys squared, By mysaduenture, to greeif of his Estate.

1595 B. Barnes Divine Cent. Spirituall Sonnets lxxxi. sig. F4 Behold (by misaduenture) how the winde From earth blowes dust and it in ayer scatter.

1621 M. Wroth Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania i. 27 His Squire return'd to the Court (after long seeking his Lord, who by misaduenture hee had lost).

1679 L. Hutchinson Order & Disorder p. ii Lest that arrive by misadventure,..that any of the pudled water, my wanton youth drew from the prophane Helicon of Ancient Poets, should be sprinkled about the world.

1820 P. B. Shelley Dante's Convito 55 If by misadventure chance should bring Thee to base company.

1873 R. Browning Red Cotton Night-cap Country ii. 113 Made aware By misadventure that his bounty..comforted a visitant.

1906 C. M. Doughty Dawn in Brit. III. ix. 15 Driving, at misadventure, they were met, Of Frisic yawls, full of fierce weaponed wights... With these, that pirates were, they fight, for life.

1995 W. Weaver tr. U. Eco Island of Day Before 389 If by misadventure the ladder at the prow had come loose, he might spend hours and hours before his death yearning for that deck he had so often wished to leave.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	misadventure
释义	misadventuren. Brit. /ˌmɪsədˈvɛntʃə/, U.S. /ˌmɪsədˈvɛn(t)ʃər/ Forms: Middle English mes-auenter, Middle English mesauentour, Middle English mesauentur, Middle English mesauenture, Middle English messaventur, Middle English misauentour, Middle English misauentoure, Middle English misauentur, Middle English misauenture, Middle English misaventur, Middle English mysauentour, Middle English mysauentur, Middle English mysaventur, Middle English mysaventure, Middle English myssawenture, Middle English mysseadventure, Middle English mysse aventure, Middle English–1500s misaventeur, Middle English–1500s misaventour, Middle English–1500s mysaduenture, Middle English–1500s mysauentoure, Middle English–1500s mysauenture, Middle English–1500s 1800s misaventure (archaic), Middle English–1600s misaduenture, Middle English– misadventure, 1500s mesaduenture, 1500s misaventre, 1500s myssaventre; Scottish pre-1700 misaduentur, pre-1700 misauenture, pre-1700 misaventeur, pre-1700 misaventour, pre-1700 misaventur, pre-1700 misaventure, pre-1700 misawentur, pre-1700 missaventur, pre-1700 mysaventeur, pre-1700 mysaventour, pre-1700 mysaventur, pre-1700 mysaventure, pre-1700 mysawentoure, pre-1700 mysawentur, pre-1700 1700s– misadventure. See also misaunter n. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French mesaventure. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman mesaventure, meshaventure, Old French mesaventure mishap, misfortune (c1150), also in specific legal use in Anglo-Norman < mes- mis- prefix² + aventure adventure n., after mesavenir to turn out badly < mes- mis- prefix² + avenir (see advene v.). Compare disadventure n.As in the case of adventure n., the spelling with -ad- appears first in the 15th cent., but does not become prevalent until the end of the 16th cent., when the stress also finally settled in its present position. 1. a. Bad luck, misfortune. Chiefly as a count noun: a particular piece of bad luck; a mishap or misfortune.See also by misadventure at Phrases 3. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > adversity > calamity or misfortune > [noun] > misfortune or ill-luck un-i-limpOE unlimpc1175 mishap?c1225 unhap?c1225 mishappeningc1230 ames-ace?a1300 misadventure?a1300 ill hailc1300 misauntera1325 untiminga1325 miscasec1325 mischancec1325 misfall1340 misfarea1387 casec1390 infortunea1393 mishapping?a1400 unchancea1400 disadventurea1413 mischieving1432 infortuny?a1439 encumbermentc1440 misfortune1441 evil hail?c1450 malfortunea1470 unhappiness1470 maleurtee?1473 malheur?1473 evil health1477 unfortune1483 wanfortunea1500 disfortune1509 wanhap1513 ill, evil ch(i)eving?1518 mislucka1530 ill luck1548 unfortunacy?c1550 evilfare1556 unluck1556 hard luck1567 bad luck1575 miscasualty1588 disgrace1590 wanchance1599 disventure1612 misaccident1620 miscarriagec1625 hard lines1722 mishanter1754 malefit1755 miscanter1781 hard cheese1854 hard cheddar1893 schlimazel1911 tough luck1912 snake eyes1918 catch-arse1970 ?a1300 Dame Sirith 202 in G. H. McKnight Middle Eng. Humorous Tales (1913) 10 Blesse þe, leue knaue! Leste þou mes-auenter haue For þis lesing. c1300 SS. Philip & James (Laud) 11 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 364 (MED) Muche reuþe was into al þat lond of þis misauenture. a1450 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Lamb.) (1887) i. 9218 & preye Iesu our Saueour To schulde vs fro mysauentour. c1450 (?c1408) J. Lydgate Reson & Sensuallyte (1901) 4238 The sorrowes and mysaventures..That loves folkys ha suffred there. a1500 Eng. Conquest Ireland (Rawl.) (1896) 69 (MED) Mysaduentures [a1525 Trin. Dub. mesaduentures] ne comyth neuer more al-oon. a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 265 Hald God thy friend,..He will the confort in all misaventeur. 1599 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet v. i. 29 Your lookes are pale and wilde, and do import Some misaduenture . View more context for this quotation 1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i ii. xvii. §3. 480 All vnder the Sunne are subiect to worldly miseries and misaduentures. 1681 R. Boyle New Exper. Icy Noctiluca 79 The same Laborant..had a worse misadventure not long after. 1748 S. Richardson Clarissa III. lxxvi. 352 Such a one may suffer only in her pride, by being obliged to take up with a second-rate match..; and..be the happier..for the misadventure. 1797 E. Burke Three Memorials on French Affairs 99 The grand, solid body of an army..proceeded leisurely..to support the expedite body in case of misadventure. a1822 P. B. Shelley tr. P. Calderon Scenes from Magico Prodigioso in Posthumous Poems (1824) 380 Among my misadventures This shipwreck is the least. 1868 Jrnl. Statist. Soc. 31 315 To be innocently taken in hold is a disagreeable thing, but it..is one of the misadventures, one of the accidental costs. 1885 Manch. Examiner 3 June 5/1 There was a mistake, or a misunderstanding, or a misadventure of some sort. 1937 D. L. Sayers Busman's Honeymoon Prothalamion 22 In spite of this misadventure, I had them at the chancel steps dead on time. 1959 Listener 18 June 1074/1 The Burrell Collection..is still, after a long saga of misadventures, looking for a site. 1991 Time 27 Feb. 50/1 It was the kind of misadventure that critics had predicted would occur..once the oddly assorted multinational forces went into battle. b. An ill-conceived, misguided, or regrettable enterprise; an adventure which turns out badly. ΚΠ 1646 G. Wither Opobalsum Anglicanum 5/1 The Prince..running away from The Kingdome, whereto he was praid to come, To make a misadventure into France. 1909 L. M. Montgomery Anne of Avonlea xix. 210 Anne's adventures and misadventures..did not all happen at once, but were sprinkled over the year. 1990 Debonair Jan. 23/1 Right moves like..ending India's Sri Lankan misadventure—and the new government will have earned itself a lot of goodwill and appreciation. 2000 Toronto Sun (Electronic ed.) 14 June ‘It happened eight years ago—and we're still trying to live it down,’ says Frank, of his dad's lottery misadventure. 2. Law. Fatal mishap or misfortune. Now chiefly in death by misadventure n. death caused accidentally, with or without the involvement of an (innocent) second party; similarly homicide by misadventure (chiefly U.S.).Cf. Phrases 3. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > killing > man-killing or homicide > [noun] > in law manslaughtera1325 misadventurea1325 chance-medleya1513 death by misadventure1800 homicide by misadventure1800 c1290 Britton (1865) I. i. ii. §2. 8 Cum nule felounie ou mesauenture soit avenue.] a1325 Statutes of Realm (2011) vi. 25 Ant alse it is ipurueid, þat no writ ne passe out of þe chauncelerie for dez of man for te enqueren, ȝif man slou oþer þoru mesauentur oþer him defendaunt oþer on oþere manere þoru felonie. 1509–10 Act 1 Hen. VIII c. 7 Yf eny persone hathe happened to be slayne by myssaventre and not by no mannys Hande. 1581 W. Stafford Compend. Exam. Complaints (1876) iii. 85 A man that had trespassed the lawe of misaduenture. 1614 F. Bacon Charge touching Duels 20 For the case of misaduenture it selfe, there were Citties of refuge. a1626 F. Bacon Elements Common Lawes (1630) 30 If diuers bee in danger of drowning by the casting away of some boate..and one of them get to some plancke..and another to saue his life thrust him from it, whereby hee is drowned, this is neither se defendendo nor by misaduenture, but iustifiable. 1769 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. IV. iv. xiv. 182 Homicide per infortunium, or misadventure. 1769 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. IV. iv. xiv. 182 Where a parent is moderately correcting his child, a master his servant or scholar, or an officer punishing a criminal, and happens to occasion his death, it is only misadventure. 1800 A. Addison Rep. Cases Pennsylvania 8 Homicide by misadventure is an unlawful killing by accident. 1850 Commerc. Rev. South & West Mar. 295 The 17th section of the act of 1740 declares a slave, who shall be guilty of homicide of any sort upon any white person, except it be by misadventure,..shall, upon conviction, suffer death. 1891 O. Wilde Picture of Dorian Gray 137 An inquest was held this morning..on the body of Sibyl Vane, a young actress... A verdict of death by misadventure was returned. 1903 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Dec. 772/1 Death by misadventure in the ordinary execution of her duty. 1970 Speculum 45 (Advt. following p. 196) This study explains why the man who committed homicide by misadventure or in self-defense needed a pardon. 1986 R. Frame Long Weekend (1988) 37 Death was by drowning..the police termed the cause ‘misadventure’. 2000 Guardian 15 Sept. i. 12/7 The jury unanimously found Miss Humphreys..died of trichloroethanol poisoning and returned a verdict of death by misadventure. Phrases †P1. In imprecations and expressions of annoyance, esp. with misadventure!: = with mischance! at mischance n. Phrases 1a. Obsolete. ΚΠ c1300 (?c1225) King Horn (Cambr.) (1901) 326 Went [= go] vt of my bur Wiþ muchel mesauentur. c1395 G. Chaucer Friar's Tale 1334 Pees, with myschaunce and with mysauenture! a1450–1509 (?a1300) Richard Coer de Lyon (A-version) (1913) 6127 (MED) Þe Sarazynes, wiþ mysauentoure, Fledde into þe heyeste toure. a1500 (?c1450) Merlin 68 (MED) Mysauenture haue that it kepeth eny counseile. †P2. to bid (something) misadventure: to curse. to do (a person) misadventure: to bring disaster or ruin upon. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > malediction > [verb (transitive)] waryc725 accurselOE forcurse1154 cursec1175 for-waryc1175 bana1275 ashend1297 to bid (something) misadventurec1330 shrew1338 beshrew1377 maledighta1400 to fare (also go, come) to mischancec1400 defyc1430 destinya1450 condemn1489 detest1533 adjure1539 beshrompa1549 widdle1552 becurse1570 malison1588 consecrate1589 exaugurate1600 execrate1612 imprecate1616 blasta1634 damna1640 vote1644 to swear at ——1680 devote1749 maledict1780 comminate1801 bless1814 peste1824 cuss1863 bedamn1875 mugger1951 the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > destroy [verb (transitive)] > destroy or ruin a person spillc950 amarOE smitelOE aspillc1175 mischievec1325 to bid (something) misadventurec1330 mara1375 fordoc1380 undo1390 wrack1564 to make roast meat of (also for)1565 wrake1567 wreck1590 speed1594 feeze1609 to do a person's business1667 cook1708 to settle a person's hash1795 diddle1806 to fix1836 raddle1951 c1330 (?a1300) Arthour & Merlin (Auch.) (1973) 4384 (MED) Boþe o lif & eke tresour Þai dede þe paiens misauentour. c1330 (?a1300) Arthour & Merlin (Auch.) (1973) 8361 He..bad þe time mesauenture Þat he cunteked wiþ king Arthour. P3. by misadventure: by an unlucky accident. Also at misadventure (now archaic). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > adversity > calamity or misfortune > unfortunately [phrase] > by mischance at misadventure?a1400 by misadventure?a1400 by mischance1535 ?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) ii. 166 (MED) His nese & his ine he carfe at misauentoure. a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll. 13) (1990) I. 302 All that evir thou doste is by mysseadventure and nat by proues of thy hondys. 1485 Malory's Morte Darthur (Caxton) iii. vii. sig. e^v And soo he smote of her hede by mysauenture [a1470 myssefortune]. 1558 W. Forrest Hist. Grisild the Second (1875) x. 83 But God for hym had freendelye prepared As in his affayres neauer oughtys squared, By mysaduenture, to greeif of his Estate. 1595 B. Barnes Divine Cent. Spirituall Sonnets lxxxi. sig. F4 Behold (by misaduenture) how the winde From earth blowes dust and it in ayer scatter. 1621 M. Wroth Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania i. 27 His Squire return'd to the Court (after long seeking his Lord, who by misaduenture hee had lost). 1679 L. Hutchinson Order & Disorder p. ii Lest that arrive by misadventure,..that any of the pudled water, my wanton youth drew from the prophane Helicon of Ancient Poets, should be sprinkled about the world. 1820 P. B. Shelley Dante's Convito 55 If by misadventure chance should bring Thee to base company. 1873 R. Browning Red Cotton Night-cap Country ii. 113 Made aware By misadventure that his bounty..comforted a visitant. 1906 C. M. Doughty Dawn in Brit. III. ix. 15 Driving, at misadventure, they were met, Of Frisic yawls, full of fierce weaponed wights... With these, that pirates were, they fight, for life. 1995 W. Weaver tr. U. Eco Island of Day Before 389 If by misadventure the ladder at the prow had come loose, he might spend hours and hours before his death yearning for that deck he had so often wished to leave. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). misadventurev. Brit. /ˌmɪsədˈvɛntʃə/, U.S. /ˌmɪsədˈvɛn(t)ʃər/ Forms: 1600s misaduenture, 1900s– misadventure. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation; perhaps modelled on an Italian lexical item. Etymons: mis- prefix², adventure v. Etymology: < mis- prefix² + adventure v., originally perhaps after Italian misauenturare (although quot. 1611 at sense 1 appears to be the only evidence for the existence of this verb in Italian), and subsequently after misadventure n. †1. intransitive. To suffer a misadventure or mishap. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words Misauenturáre, to misaduenture. 2. intransitive. To undertake or be involved in a misguided enterprise. rare. ΚΠ 1986 J. Barth Sot-weed Factor (ed. 2) p. vi My Ebenezer Cooke is not merely a naïve..tobacco factor misadventuring in the New World. 1999 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 12 Sept. 11 7/1 The rich Mr. Pipp, who misadventured through a grand tour of Europe. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.?a1300v.1611
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