Definition of "aduenture" []

• Obsolete spelling of adventure. (noun)

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• "Their Iudgementes and Sentences of lawe, are not there at giuen aduenture, but vpon reason: for thei surely thought that all thinges well done, muste niedes be profitable to mannes life."
• "Hogge: or any thinge elles that dieth of sickenesse, or by aduenture vnslain."
• "For thei holde opinion that who so accustometh his selfe neither to be Lorde ouer other, ne to wronge any bodie: that man hath prepared him selfe sauftie and ease what so euer shall happen hym by any aduenture."