venturous

adj

Etymology: Etymology tree English venture Latin -ōsus Old French -usbor. Middle English -ous English -ous English venturous From venture + -ous.

1. Adventurous; venturesome; willing to undertake activities involving risk.

   “[H]e ſhewed me a ſtately Palace, and how the People were clad in Gold that were in it; and how there came a venturous Man and cut his way through the armed men that ſtood in the door to keep him out; and how he was bid to come in, and win eternal Glory.”

   “Let Prudence yet obſtruct thy venturous way; / And take good heed, what men will think and ſay: / That beauteous Emma vagrant courſes took; / Her father's houſe and civil life forſook; / That, full of youthful blood, and fond of man; / She to the wood-land with an exile ran.”