a. [f. ADVENTURE sb. + -SOME.] Given to adventures, or to running risks; adventurous, venturesome.

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1731.  Bailey, vol. II., Adventuresom, bold, daring, hazardous.

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1755.  Johnson, Adventuresome, the same with adventurous: a low word, scarcely used in writing.

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1821.  Keats, Endym., I. 6. Adventuresome, I send my herald thought into a wilderness.

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1822.  Poughkeepsie Jrnl., 3 April, 1/4. It was too late in the season, too wet, too dreary, too adventuresome.

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1865.  Reader, No. 151. 574/1. The most adventuresome if not foolhardy feat.

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