Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Venturous

Venturous , adjective

[Aphetic form of Old English aventurous. See Adventurous, Venture, n.]

Daring; bold; hardy; fearless; venturesome; adventurous; as, a venturous soldier. — Spenser
This said, he paused not, but with venturous arm He plucked, he tasted. — Milton