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bonaventure

1

[ bon-uh-ven-cher, bon-uh-ven- ]

noun

, Nautical.
  1. a mast fitted with a lateen sail bonaventure mizzen or lugsail, situated behind the mizzenmast at or near the stern, used in the 16th and early 17th centuries.


Bonaventure

2

[ bon-uh-ven-cher, bon-uh-ven- ]

noun

  1. Saint the Seraphic Doctor, 1221–74, Italian scholastic theologian.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of bonaventure1

First recorded in 1490–1500, bonaventure is from the Italian word buonaventura literally, good luck. See bonus, venture

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Example Sentences

The larger galleons even had a fourth mast, with a lateen-rigged mizzen – known as the Bonaventure mizzen.

I suspect his final opera omni in a critical German edition will equal in length that of Augustine, Aquinas, and Bonaventure.

But at last he said, St. Bonaventure is not the Church, though he is a saint and doctor of it.

In 1705 Bonaventure, in a time of scarcity, sent a vessel to Boston to buy provisions, on pretence of exchanging prisoners.

During the action which ensued, the Bonaventure blew up, while Van Galen lost a leg from a shot, of which wound he died.

Bonaventure, sitting on his knee, asked why he had come, and the ex-governor told him there was war.

Zoséphine and Bonaventure sat on a back seat contrived for them in the family calèche.

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