Adventuring

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Adventure \Ad*ven"ture\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Adventured}; p.
     pr. & vb. n. {Adventuring}.] [OE. aventuren, auntren, F.
     aventurer, fr. aventure. See {Adventure}, n.]
     1. To risk, or hazard; jeopard; to venture.
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              He would not adventure himself into the theater.
                                                    --Acts xix.
                                                    31.
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     2. To venture upon; to run the risk of; to dare.
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              Yet they adventured to go back.       --Bunyan,
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              Discriminations might be adventured.  --J. Taylor.
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