enaunter

== English == === Etymology === From Middle English enaunter, from in, en (“in”) aunter (“adventure”). === Pronunciation === (non-rhotic) IPA(key): /ɪnˈɔːntə/ (rhotic) IPA(key): /ɪnˈɔːntɚ/ === Conjunction === enaunter (obsolete) Lest. 1589, Mar Martine, 5, quoted in 1809, Egerton Brydges, Censura Literaria, page 60: For men of litrature t'endite so fast, them doth not sitte, / Enaunter in them, as in thee, thair pen outrun thair witt; […] (Can we date this quote?) published in 1946, The Characters of Theophrastus: Newly Edited and Translated by J.M. Edmonds: KORITTO: […] For day and night long doth she weare our stone into scrapings, enaunter she pay a grote to set her own. === References === “enaunter”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. James A. H. Murray et al., editors (1884–1928), “Enaunter”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC.