Definition of Aventre

1. v. t. To thrust forward (at a venture), as a spear.

Definition of Aventre

1. Verb. (obsolete) To thrust forward (at a venture), as a spear. ¹

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Definition of Aventre

1. to thrust [v AVENTRED, AVENTRING, AVENTRES] - See also: thrust

Lexicographical Neighbors of Aventre

avengest
avengeth
avenging
aveniform
avenin
avenins
avenious
avenir
avenirs
avenor
avenors
avens
avenses
aventail
aventails
aventre (current term)
aventred
aventres
aventring
aventure
aventures
aventurin
aventurine
aventurines
aventurins
avenue
avenues
aver
average
average Joe

Literary usage of Aventre

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The History of the Reformation of the Church of England by Gilbert Burnet, Edward Nares (1843)
"... upon the «aid News tobe thereby Lost, but also they dare not nowe aventre fyve, foure, or thre for a hundred. Howbeit, Sir, 1 do not Lytel ..."

2. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1889)
"... aventre. To throw a spear. (Ital) Spenser uses the word, and Nares thought it was peculiar to that writer. ..."

3. The History of the Reformation of the Church of England by Gilbert Burnet (1829)
"... such money as they have hitherto layde upon the said news to be 'hereby lost, but also they dare not nowe aventre fyve four or thre for a hundred. ..."

4. The Port Folio by Joseph Dennie, John Elihu Hall (1821)
"... towards the development of its resources. We must calculate on tempests, but we must not be frightened. Du moindre veut qui d'aventre Vient rider la ..."

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