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.

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

Example Sentences

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

From Realm of History

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

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

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

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

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