s'advenir. To be fit, suitable, handsome; to become, to sit featly, to beseeme.
Adventif: m. iue: f. biens adventifs. Goods comming, or giuen, by chaunce; had of another, or of a stranger; not got by his owne industrie, nor from his own parents; casualties, vnlikely and vnlooked for windfals.
Advents de Noël. The time of Aduent; before Christmas.
Adventure: f. An aduenture, chaunce, hap, lucke, fortune, hazard. à l'adventure cela n'est point. I doubt me whether; tis a question whether yea or no; or, perhaps that is not. d'adventure. Casually, by meere chaunce, haply, as hap was, as it happened, by hap hazard. En adventure gisent grands coups: Pro. Qui sçauroit les adventures il ne seroit iamais pauvre: Pro. Could men foresee mishaps, th' would not be poore; wee say, He that did know what would be deare, might grow full rich within a yeare.
s'Adventurer. To aduenture, ieopard, hazard, expose himselfe vnto danger; to trie his fortune. Qui ne s'adventure n'a cheual ny mule: Pro. Nothing venture nothing haue, say we. Qui trop s'adventure perd cheual & mule: Prov. But he that ventures too farre, looses all: (Now the question will be, in these two prouerbes, Whether is better for a man, to loose nothing though he get nothing, and to keepe his skin whole; or, to loose that which he hath gotten, and only haue left him a skin full of holes.)
Adventureusement. Hazardously, aduenturously.
Adventureux. Hazardous, aduenturous; that feares no colours.
Adventurier. An aduenturer; one that freely and without compulsion, or charge goes to the warres; also, a free-booter, or boot-haler. Vn Adventurier vagabond. And idle loitering rogue; a hedge-creeper, henne-killer, sheet-stealer.
Adventurier: m. ere: f. as Adventureux. Advenu: m. uë: f. Chaunced, happened, betided, come to passe. Vne fille bien advenuë. Well proeuved, well growne, well come on, well prospered; well batned, or batled.
Advenuë. Accesse, passage, or entry vnto a place; also, a hap, chaunce, euent, accident.
Adveré. Auerred, verified; Looke Averé. Adversaire. An aduersarie; opponent, enemie; the aduerse, or contrarie partie.
Adversité: f. Aduersitie; afflictions, crosses, mishaps, misfortunes.
Adverti: m. ie: f. Aduertised, informed, certified, warned, admonished, aduised; signified vnto; hauing notice, or intelligence, of.
Advertir. To informe, certifie, aduertise; warne, admonish, aduise; to send word of; to signifie, giue notice, or intelligence, vnto.
Advertissement: m. An aduertisement, signification, information, intelligence, notice; a warning, aduise, monition, admonishment; (In Law, C'est vn motif de faict ou de droict, que la partie baille par escript sur vn incident, ou debat survenu en la cause, ou apres les escritures principales, premieres & secondes additions, ou quand le different est petit. ¶ Ragueau.)
Advertissemens. The Bill, Answere, and rest of the Pleadings, or Bookes put into the Court both by plaintife and defendant, thereby fully to informe the Iudges of the state of the cause, and of the points and reasons alledged on both sides. ¶ Nicot.
Advertisseur. An aduertiser, informer, intelligencer, certifier; warner, admonisher, aduiser.
Advest: m. An aduesture, inuesture; a Liuerie and seisin.
Advestir. To aduest, inuest, cloth with; giue possession of; make Liuerie and seisin vnto.
Advesture: f. An aduesture, an inuesture; a cloathing, or possessing with; a deliuering ouer, a making of Liuerie and seisin vnto; also, fruit hanging by the root, or standing on the ground; whence; Advesture de bled. Corne standing; or sprung, and put vp to a good height, thereby cloathing the ground all ouer.
Adveu: m. An aduowing, or auouching; an approuing; an acknowledging as, or taking for, his owne; a warranting; pawning of the word, passing of credit vpon; also, a contract, bargaine, agreement; also, a Suruey; or (more properly) a protestation, or confession made by a tenant (in words, or in writing) that he holds the things, mentioned in his suruey, of the lord vnto whom he deliuers it. Adveu du pere; ou du mari. Signifies (in some passages of the French Lawes) the good-will, or consent of the father; or husband. Adveu du vassal; as before in Adveu; or, a profession, confession, or acknowledgement, of tenure. Blasme d'adveu. Looke, Blasme. Gens sans adveu. Vagabonds, rogues, masterles men; such as none will owne, or challenge interest in. Matiere d'adveu. A suit, action, or bill of complaint for moueables. Au sceu, & adveu de tout le monde. Before the face, in the sight, or presence, of all men. Faictes cela à mon adveu. Doe that on my word, I will be your warrant for it; also, follow my humour in that, or, doe as I would haue you in it. Adveu emporte l'homme. When a prisoner alledges that he is the vassall, or vnder the iurisdiction, of a lord, and desires to be tried before him, he is commonly sent vnto him, if the Lord will; or may, by his priuiledges, take notice of the case.
Advis: m. Aduise, opinion; counsell; sentence; iudgement; also, an information, intelligence, notice, aduertisement, or inckling giuen of. Assene & advis: Looke, Assene. Il m'est advis; or; il me semble aduis, que. Me thinkes; it seemes vnto me; I am of opinion, or of mind, that.
Advisagé: m. ée: f. Beheld earnestly in the face.
Advisager. To looke in the face; to behold earnestly, wistly to eye, the visage of.
Advisé: m. ée: f. Aduised; warie, discreet, considerat, heedfull, circumspect; also, told, informed, warned, admonished. Mal advisé n'est pas sans peine: Pro. He thats vncircumspect wanteth no trouble.
Advisemént: m. Aduisement, heed, warinesse, discretion, consideration, circumspection; also, an aduising, warning, telling, informing; admonishing.
Advisément. Aduisedly, heedily, warily, discreetly, considerately, circumspectly.
Adviser. To aduise, marke, heed, consider of, looke to, attend vnto, regard with circumspection; to thinke, imagine, iudge; also, to aduise, counsell, warne, tell, informe. Looke, Aviser. Adulateur: m. A flatterer, cogger, smoother, soother, fawner, claw-backe.
Adulation. Adulation, flatterie, fawning, soothing, cogging, smoothing, blandishment.