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# The BFD Word of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/the-bfd-word-of-the-day-578/
- Published: 2021-08-29T18:15:00.000Z
- Updated: 2021-07-15T18:48:17.000Z
- Author: David Theobald
- Tags: General, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 01:54

The word for today is…  
  
emprise (noun) –

an adventurous, daring, or chivalric enterprise

Source : [Merriam -Webster](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/emprise?ref=goodoil.news)

Etymology :Someone who engages in emprises undertakes much, so it’s no surprise that “emprise” descends from the Anglo-French word emprendre, meaning “to undertake.” It’s also no surprise that “emprise” became established in English during the 13th century, a time when brave knights engaged in many a chivalrous undertaking. Fourteenth-century author Geoffrey Chaucer used “emprise” to describe one such knight in “The Franklin’s Tale” (one of the stories in The Canterbury Tales): “Ther was a knyght that loved and dide his payne / To serve a lady in his beste wise; / And many labour, many a greet emprise, / He for his lady wroghte er she were wonne.”

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