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Misadventure definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

MISADVEN'TURE, n. Mischance; misfortune; ill luck; an unlucky accident.
1. In law, homicide by misadventure,is when a man, doing a lawful act, without any intention of injury, unfortunately kills another. This is called excusable homicide.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: an instance of misfortune [syn: mishap, misadventure, mischance]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Middle English mesaventure, from Anglo-French, from mesavenir to turn out badly, from mes- mis- + avenir to happen, from Latin advenire — more at adventure Date: 14th century misfortune, mishap

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 Law an accident without concomitant crime or negligence (death by misadventure). 2 bad luck. 3 a misfortune. Etymology: ME f. OF mesaventure f. mesavenir turn out badly (as MIS-(2), ADVENT: cf. ADVENTURE)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Misadventure Mis`ad*ven"ture (?; 135), n. [OE. mesaventure, F. m['e]saventure.] Mischance; misfortune; ill lick; unlucky accident; ill adventure. --Chaucer. Homicide by misadventure (Law), homicide which occurs when a man, doing a lawful act, without any intention of injury, unfortunately kills another; -- called also excusable homicide. See Homicide. --Blackstone. Syn: Mischance; mishap; misfortune; disaster; calamity.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(misadventures) A misadventure is an unfortunate incident. (FORMAL) ...a series of misadventures... A verdict of death by misadventure was recorded. N-VAR

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Mischance, mishap, misfortune, reverse, ill luck, disaster, calamity, infelicity, cross.

Moby Thesaurus

accident, blow, blunder, boner, bull, calamity, casualty, cataclysm, catastrophe, collision, contretemps, crack-up, crash, disaster, error, faux pas, grief, howler, ill hap, lapse, mischance, misfortune, mishap, nasty blow, pileup, shipwreck, shock, slip, smash, smashup, staggering blow, tragedy, wreck