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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:

Adventure \Ad*ven"ture\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Adventured}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Adventuring}.] [OE. aventuren, auntren, F. aventurer, fr. aventure. See {Adventure}, noun]

1. To risk, or hazard; jeopard; to venture.

He would not adventure himself into the theater. --Acts xix. 31.

2. To venture upon; to run the risk of; to dare.

Yet they adventured to go back. --Bunyan,

Discriminations might be adventured. --J. Taylor.
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