Ad¶jecÏtive, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Adjectived (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Adjectiving (?).] To make an adjective of; to form or change into an adjective. [R.]Language has as much occasion to adjective the distinct signification of the verb, and to adjective also the mood, as it has to adjective time. It has… adjectived all three.Tooke.Ad¶jecÏtiveÏly, adv. In the manner of an adjective; as, a word used adjectively.AdÏjoin¶ (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Adjoined (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Adjoining.] [OE. ajoinen, OF. ajoindre, F. adjoindre, fr. L. adjungere; ad + jungere to join. See Join, and cf. Adjunct.] To join or unite to; to lie contiguous to; to be in contact with; to attach; to append.Corrections… should be, as remarks, adjoined by way of note.Watts.
Ad·leÏga¶tion (?), n. [L. adlegatio, allegatio, a sending away; fr. adlegare, allegare, to send away with a commission; ad in addition + legare to send as ambassador. Cf. Allegation.] A right formerly claimed by the states of the German Empire of joining their own ministers with those of the emperor in public treaties and negotiations to the common interest of the empire.Encyc. Brit.
Ø Ad lib¶iÏtum (?). At one's pleasure; as one wishes.Ad·loÏcu¶tion (?), n. See Allocution. [Obs.]AdÏmar¶ginÏate (?), v. t. [Pref. adÏ + margin.] To write in the margin. [R.]Coleridge.AdÏmax¶ilÏlaÏry (?), a. [Pref. adÏ + maxillary.] (Anat.) Near to the maxilla or jawbone.AdÏmeas¶ure (?; 135), v. t. [Cf. OF. amesurer, LL. admensurare. See Measure.] 1. To measure.2. (Law) To determine the proper share of, or the proper apportionment; as, to admeasure dower; to admeasure common of pasture.Blackstone.AdÏmeas¶ureÏment (?), n. [Cf. OF. amesurement, and E. Measure.] 1. The act or process of ascertaining the dimensions of anything; mensuration; measurement; as, the admeasurement of a ship or of a cask. ½ Admeasurement by acre.¸2. The measure of a thing; dimensions; size.3. (Law) Formerly, the adjustment of proportion, or ascertainment of shares, as of dower or pasture held in common. This was by writ of admeasurement, directed to the sheriff.AdÏmeas¶urÏer (?), n. One who admeasures.AdÏmen·suÏra¶tion (?), n. [LL. admensuratio; L. ad + mensurare to measure. See Mensuration.] Same as Admeasurement.AdÏmin¶iÏcle (?), n. [L. adminculum support, orig., that on which the hand rests; ad + manus hand + dim. ending Ïculym.] 1. Help or support; an auxiliary.Grote.2. (Law) Corroborative or explanatory proof.In Scots law, any writing tending to establish the existence or terms of a lost deed.Bell.Ad·miÏnic¶uÏlar (?), a. Supplying help; auxiliary; corroborative; explanatory; as, adminicular evidence.H. Spencer.Ad·miÏnic¶uÏlaÏry (?), a. Adminicular.AdÏmin¶isÏter (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Administered (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Administering.] [OE. aministren, OF. aministrer, F. administer, fr. L. administrare; ad + ministrare to serve. See Minister.] 1.To manage or conduct, as public affairs; to direct or superintend the execution, application, or conduct of; as, to administer the government or the state.For forms of government let fools contest:Whate'er is best administered is best.Pope.2. To dispense; to serve out; to supply; execute; as, to administer relief, to administer the sacrament.[Let zephyrs] administer their tepid, genial airs.Philips.Justice was administered with an exactness and purity not before known.Macaulay.3. To apply, as medicine or a remedy; to give, as a dose or something beneficial or suitable. Extended to a blow, a reproof, etc.A noxious drug had been administered to him.Macaulay.4. To tender, as an oath.Swear… to keep the oath that we administer.Shak.5. (Law) To settle, as the estate of one who dies without a will, or whose will fails of an executor.Syn. - To manage; conduct; minister; supply; dispense; give out; distribute; furnish.AdÏmin¶isÏter, v. i. 1. To contribute; to bring aid or supplies; to conduce; to minister.A fountain… administers to the pleasure as well as the plenty of the place.Spectator.2. (Law) To perform the office of administrator; to act officially; as, A administers upon the estate of B.AdÏmin¶isÏter, n. Administrator. [Obs.]Bacon.AdÏmin·isÏte¶riÏal (?), a. Pertaining to administration, or to the executive part of government.AdÏmin¶isÏtraÏble (?), a. Capable of being administered; as, an administrable law.AdÏmin¶isÏtrant (?), a. [F., p. pr. of administrer. See Administer.] Executive; acting; managing affairs. - n. One who administers.AdÏmin¶isÏtrate (?), v. t. [L. administratus, p. p. of administrare.] To administer. [R.]Milman.AdÏmin·isÏtra¶tion (?; 277), n. [OE. administracioun, L. administratio: cf. F. administration.] 1. The act of administering; government of public affairs; the service rendered, or duties assumed, in conducting affairs; the conducting of any office or employment; direction; management.His financial administration was of a piece with his military administration.Macaulay.2. The executive part of government; the persons collectively who are intrusted with the execution of laws and the superintendence of public affairs; the chief magistrate and his cabinet or council; or the council, or ministry, alone, as in Great Britain.A mild and popular administration.Macaulay.The administration has been opposed in parliament.Johnson.3. The act of administering, or tendering something to another; dispensation; as, the administration of a medicine, of an oath, of justice, or of the sacrament.
4. (Law) (a) The management and disposal, under legal authority, of the estate of an intestate, or of a testator having no competent executor. (b) The management of an estate of a deceased person by an executor, the strictly corresponding term execution not being in use.÷ with the will annexed, administration granted where the testator has appointed no executor, or where his appointment of an executor for any cause has failed, as by death, incompetency, refusal to act, etc.Syn. - Conduct; management; direction; regulation; execution; dispensation; distribution.AdÏmin¶isÏtra·tive (?), a. [L. administrativus: cf. F. administratif.] Pertaining to administration; administering; executive; as, an administrative body, ability, or energy. - AdÏmin¶isÏtra·tiveÏly, adv.AdÏmin·isÏtra¶tor (?), n. [L.] 1. One who administers affairs; one who directs, manages, executes, or dispenses, whether in civil, judicial, political, or ecclesiastical affairs; a manager.2. (Law) A man who manages or settles the estate of an intestate, or of a testator when there is no competent executor; one to whom the right of administration has been committed by competent authority.AdÏmin·isÏtra¶torÏship, n. The position or office of an administrator.AdÏmin·isÏtra¶trix (?), n. [NL.] A woman who administers; esp., one who administers the estate of an intestate, or to whom letters of administration have been granted; a female administrator.Ad·miÏraÏbil¶iÏty (?), n. [L. admirabilitac.] Admirableness. [R.]Johnson.Ad¶miÏraÏble (?), a. [L. admirabilis: cf. F. admirable.] 1. Fitted to excite wonder; wonderful; marvelous. [Obs.]In man there is nothing admirable but his ignorance and weakness.Jer. Taylor.2. Having qualities to excite wonder united with approbation; deserving the highest praise; most excellent; - used of persons or things. ½An admirable machine.¸ ½Admirable fortitude.¸Macaulay.Syn. - Wonderful; marvelous; surprising; excellent; delightful; praiseworthy.Ad¶miÏraÏbleÏness, n. The quality of being admirable; wonderful excellence.Ad¶miÏraÏbly, adv. In an admirable manner.Ad¶miÏral (?), n. [OE. amiral, admiral, OF. amiral, ultimately fr. Ar. amÆrÏalÏbahr commander of the sea; Ar. amÆr is commander, al is the Ar. article, and amÆrÏal, heard in different titles, was taken as one word. Early forms of the word show confusion with L. admirabilis admirable, fr. admirari to admire. It is said to have been introduced into Europe by the Genoese or Venetians, in the 12th or 13th century. Cf. Ameer, Emir.] 1. A naval officer of the highest rank; a naval officer of high rank, of which there are different grades. The chief gradations in rank are admiral, vice admiral, and rear admiral. The admiral is the commander in chief of a fleet or of fleets.2.The ship which carries the admiral; also, the most considerable ship of a fleet.Like some mighty admiral, dark and terrible, bearing down upon his antagonist with all his canvas straining to the wind, and all his thunders roaring from his broadsides.E. Everett.3. (Zo”l.) A handsome butterfly (Pyrameis Atalanta) of Europe and America. The larva feeds on nettles.÷ shell (Zo”l.), the popular name of an ornamental cone shell (Conus admiralis).Lord High ÷, a great officer of state, who (when this rare dignity is conferred) is at the head of the naval administration of Great Britain.Ad¶miÏralÏship, n. The office or position oaf an admiral; also, the naval skill of an admiral.Ad¶miÏralÏty (?), n.; pl. Admiralties (?). [F. amiraut‚, for an older amiralt‚, office of admiral, fr. LL. admiralitas. See Admiral.] 1. The office or jurisdiction of an admiral.Prescott.2. The department or officers having authority over naval affairs generally.3.The court which has jurisdiction of maritime questions and offenses.µ In England, admiralty jurisdiction was formerly vested in the High Court of Admiralty, which was held before the Lord High Admiral, or his deputy, styled the Judge of the Admiralty; but admiralty jurisdiction is now vested in the probate, divorce, and admiralty division of the High Justice. In America, there are no admiralty courts distinct from others, but admiralty jurisdiction is vested in the district courts of the United States, subject to revision by the circuit courts and the Supreme Court of the United States. Admiralty jurisprudence has cognizance of maritime contracts and torts, collisions at sea, cases of prize in war, etc., and in America, admiralty jurisdiction is extended to such matters, arising out of the navigation of any of the public waters, as the Great Lakes and rivers.4. The system of jurisprudence of admiralty courts.5. The building in which the lords of the admiralty, in England, transact business.AdÏmir¶ance (?), n. [Cf. OF. admirance.] Admiration. [Obs.]Spenser.Ad·miÏra¶tion (?), n. [F., fr. L. admiratio. See Admire.] 1. Wonder; astonishment. [Obs.]Season your admiration for a while.Shak.2.Wonder mingled with approbation or delight; an emotion excited by a person or thing possessed of wonderful or high excellence; as, admiration of a beautiful woman, of a landscape, of virtue.3. Cause of admiration; something to excite wonder, or pleased surprise; a prodigy.Now, good Lafeu, bring in the admiration.Shak.Note of ~, the mark (!), called also exclamation point.Syn. - Wonder; approval; appreciation; adoration; reverence; worship.AdÏmi¶aÏtive (?), a. Relating to or expressing admiration or wonder. [R.]Earle.AdÏmire¶ (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Admired (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Admiring (?).] [F. admirer, fr. L. admirari; ad + mirari to wonder, for smirari, akin to Gr. ? to smile, Skr. smi, and E. smile.] 1. To regard with wonder or astonishment; to view with surprise; to marvel at. [Archaic]Examples rather to be admired than imitated.Fuller.2. To regard with wonder and delight; to look upon with an elevated feeling of pleasure, as something which calls out approbation, esteem, love, or reverence; to estimate or prize highly; as, to admire a person of high moral worth, to admire a landscape.Admired as heroes and as gods obeyed.Pope.µ Admire followed by the infinitive is obsolete or colloquial; as, I admire to see a man consistent in his conduct.Syn. - To esteem; approve; delight in.AdÏmire¶, v. i.To wonder; to marvel; to be affected with surprise; - sometimes with at.To wonder at Pharaoh, and even admire at myself.Fuller.AdÏmired¶ (?), a. 1. Regarded with wonder and delight; highly prized; as, an admired poem.2. Wonderful; also, admirable. [Obs.] ½Admired disorder.¸ ½ Admired Miranda.¸Shak.AdÏmir¶er (?), n. One who admires; one who esteems or loves greatly.Cowper.AdÏmir¶ing, a. Expressing admiration; as, an admiring glance. - AdÏmir¶ingÏly, adv.Shak.AdÏmis·siÏbil¶iÏty (?), n. [Cf. F. admissibilit‚.] The quality of being admissible; admissibleness; as, the admissibility of evidence.AdÏmis¶siÏble (?), a. [F. admissible, LL. admissibilis. See Admit.] Entitled to be admitted, or worthy of being admitted; that may be allowed or conceded; allowable; as, the supposition is hardly admissible. - AdÏmis¶siÏbleÏness, n. Ð AdÏmis¶siÏbly, adv.AdÏmis¶sion (?), n. [L. admissio: cf. F. admission. See Admit.] 1. The act or practice of admitting.2. Power or permission to enter; admittance; entrance; access; power to approach.What numbers groan for sad admission there!Young.3. The granting of an argument or position not fully proved; the act of acknowledging something ?serted; acknowledgment; concession.The too easy admission of doctrines.Macaulay.4. (Law) Acquiescence or concurrence in a statement made by another, and distinguishable from a confession in that an admission presupposes prior inquiry by another, but a confession may be made without such inquiry.5. A fact, point, or statement admitted; as, admission made out of court are received in evidence.6. (Eng. Eccl. Law) Declaration of the bishop that he approves of the presentee as a fit person to serve the cure of the church to which he is presented.Shipley.Syn. - Admittance; concession; acknowledgment; concurrence; allowance. See Admittance.AdÏmis¶sive (?), a.Implying an admission; tending to admit. [R.]Lamb.AdÏmis¶soÏry (?), a. Pertaining to admission.AdÏmit¶ (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Admitted; p. pr. & vb. n. Admitting.] [OE. amitten, L. admittere, admissum; ad + mittere to send: cf. F. admettre, OF. admettre, OF. ametre. See Missile.] 1. To suffer to enter; to grant entrance, whether into a place, or into the mind, or consideration; to receive; to take; as, they were into his house; to admit a serious thought into the mind; to admit evidence in the trial of a cause.2. To give a right of entrance; as, a ticket one into a playhouse.3. To allow (one) to enter on an office or to enjoy a privilege; to recognize as qualified for a franchise; as, to admit an attorney to practice law; the prisoner was admitted to bail.4. To concede as true; to acknowledge or assent to, as an allegation which it is impossible to deny; to own or confess; as, the argument or fact is admitted; he admitted his guilt.5. To be capable of; to permit; as, the words do not admit such a construction. In this sense, of may be used after the verb, or may be omitted.Both Houses declared that they could admit of no treaty with the king.Hume.AdÏmit¶taÏble (?), a. Admissible.Sir T. Browne.AdÏmit¶tance (?), n. 1. The act of admitting.2. Permission to enter; the power or right of entrance; also, actual entrance; reception.To gain admittance into the house.South.He desires admittance to the king.Dryden.To give admittance to a thought of fear.Shak.3. Concession; admission; allowance; as, the admittance of an argument. [Obs.]Sir T. Browne.4. Admissibility. [Obs. & R.]Shak.5. (Eng. Law) The act of giving possession of a copyhold estate.Bouvier.Syn. - Admission; access; entrance; initiation. - Admittance, Admission. These words are, to some extent, in a state of transition and change. Admittance is now chiefly confined to its primary sense of access into some locality or building. Thus we see on the doors of factories, shops, etc. ½No admittance.¸ Its secondary or moral sense, as ½admittance to the church,¸ is almost entirely laid aside. Admission has taken to itself the secondary or figurative senses; as, admission to the rights of citizenship; admission to the church; the admissions made by one of the parties in a dispute. And even when used in its primary sense, it is not identical with admittance. Thus, we speak of admission into a country, territory, and other larger localities, etc., where admittance could not be used. So, when we speak of admission to a concert or other public assembly, the meaning is not perhaps exactly that of admittance, viz., access within the walls of the building, but rather a reception into the audience, or access to the performances. But the lines of distinction on this subject are one definitely drawn.Ø Ad·mitÏta¶tur (?), n. [L., let him be admitted.] The certificate of admission given in some American colleges.AdÏmit¶ted (?), a. Received as true or valid; acknowledged. - AdÏmit¶tedÏly, adv. Confessedly.AdÏmit¶ter (?), n. One who admits.AdÏmix¶ (?), v. t. [Pref. adÏ + mix: cf. L. admixtus, p. p. of admiscere. See Mix.] To mingle with something else; to mix. [R.]AdÏmix¶tion (?; 106), n. [L. admixtio.] A mingling of different things; admixture.Glanvill.AdÏmix¶ture (?; 135), n. [L. admiscere, admixtum, to admix; ad + miscere to mix. See Mix.]1. The act of mixing; mixture.2. The compound formed by mixing different substances together.3. That which is mixed with anything.AdÏmon¶ish (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Admonished (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Admonishing.] [OE. amonesten, OF. amonester, F. admonester, fr. a supposed LL. admonesstrare, fr. L. admonere to remind, warn; ad + monere to warn. See Monition.] 1. To warn or notify of a fault; to reprove gently or kindly, but seriously; to exhort. ½Admonish him as a brother.¸2 Thess. iii. 15.2. To counsel against wrong practices; to cation or advise; to warn against danger or an offense; - followed by of, against, or a subordinate clause.Admonishing one another in psalms and hymns.Col. iii. 16.I warned thee, I admonished thee, foretoldThe danger, and the lurking enemy.Milton.3. To instruct or direct; to inform; to notify.Moses was admonished of God, when he was about to make the tabernacle.Heb. viii. 5.AdÏmon¶ishÏer (?), n. One who admonishes.AdÏmon¶ishÏment (?), n. [Cf. OF. amonestement, admonestement.] Admonition. [R.]Shak.Ad·moÏni¶tion (?), n. [OE. amonicioun, OF. amonition, F. admonition, fr. L. admonitio, fr. admonere. See Admonish.] Gentle or friendly reproof; counseling against a fault or error; expression of authoritative advice; friendly caution or warning.Syn. - Admonition, Reprehension, Reproof. Admonition is prospective, and relates to moral delinquencies; its object is to prevent further transgression. Reprehension and reproof are retrospective, the former being milder than the latter. A person of any age or station may be liable to reprehension in case of wrong conduct; but reproof is the act of a superior. It is authoritative fault-finding or censure addressed to children or to inferiors.Ad·moÏni¶tionÏer (?), n. Admonisher. [Obs.]AdÏmon¶iÏtive (?), a. Admonitory. [R.] Barrow. Ð AdÏmon¶iÏtiveÏly, adv.AdÏmon¶iÏtor (?), n. [L.] Admonisher; monitor.Conscience is at most times a very faithful and prudent admonitor.Shenstone.AdÏmon·iÏto¶riÏal (?), a. Admonitory. [R.] ½An admonitorial tone.¸Dickens.AdÏmon¶iÏtoÏry (?), a. [LL. admonitorius.] That conveys admonition; warning or reproving; as, an admonitory glance. - AdÏmon¶iÏtoÏriÏly (?), adv.AdÏmon¶iÏtrix (?), n. [L.] A female admonitor.AdÏmor·tiÏza¶tion (?), n. [LL. admortizatio. Cf. Amortization.] (Law) The reducing or lands or tenements to mortmain. See Mortmain.AdÏmove¶ (?), v. t. [L. admovere. See Move.] To move or conduct to or toward. [Obs.]Sir T. Browne.AdÏnas¶cent (?), a. [L. adnascens, p. pr. of adnasci to be born, grow.] Growing to or on something else. ½An adnascent plant.¸Evelyn.Ad¶nate (?), a. [L. adnatus, p. p. of adnasci. See Adnascent, and cf. Agnate.] 1. (Physiol.) Grown to congenitally.2. (Bot.) Growing together; - said only of organic cohesion of unlike parts.An anther is adnate when fixed by its whole length to the filament.Gray.3. (Zo”l.) Growing with one side adherent to a stem; - a term applied to the lateral zooids of corals and other compound animals.AdÏna¶tion (?), n. (Bot.) The adhesion or cohesion of different floral verticils or sets of organs.AdÏnom¶iÏnal (?), a. [L. ad + nomen noun.] (Gram.) Pertaining to an adnoun; adjectival; attached to a noun. Gibbs. Ð AdÏnom¶iÏnalÏly, adv.Ad¶noun· (?), n. [Pref. adÏ + noun.] (Gram.) An adjective, or attribute. [R.]Coleridge.AdÏnu¶biÏla·ted (?), a. [L. adnubilatus, p. p. of adnubilare.] Clouded; obscured. [R.]AÏdo¶ (?), (1) v. inf., (2) n. [OE. at do, northern form for to do. Cf. Affair.] 1. To do; in doing; as, there is nothing . ½What is here ado?¸J. Newton.2. Doing; trouble; difficulty; troublesome business; fuss; bustle; as, to make a great ado about trifles.With much ado, he partly kept awake.Dryden.Let's follow to see the end of this ado.Shak.Ø AÏdo¶be (?), n. [Sp.] An unburnt brick dried in the sun; also used as an adjective, as, an adobe house, in Texas or New Mexico.Ad·oÏles¶cence (?), n. [Fr., fr. L. adolescentia.] The state of growing up from childhood to manhood or womanhood; youth, or the period of life between puberty and maturity, generally considered to be, in the male sex, from fourteen to twenty-one. Sometimes used with reference to the lower animals.Ad·oÏles¶cenÏcy (?), n. The quality of being adolescent; youthfulness.
Ad·oÏles¶cent (?), a. [L. adolescens, p. pr. of adolescere to grow up to; ad + the inchoative olescere to grow: cf. F. adolescent. See Adult.] Growing; advancing from childhood to maturity.Schools, unless discipline were doubly strong,Detain their adolescent charge too long.Cowper.Ad·oÏles¶cent, n. A youth.Ad·oÏne¶an (?), a. [L. Adon?us.] Pertaining to Adonis; Adonic. ½Fair Adonean Venus.¸Faber.AÏdon¶ic (?), a. [F. adonique: cf. L. Adonius.] Relating to Adonis, famed for his beauty. - n. An Adonic verse.÷ verse, a verse consisting of a dactyl and spondee (?).Ø AÏdo¶nis (?), n. [L., gr. Gr. ?.] 1. (Gr. Myth.) A youth beloved by Venus for his beauty. He was killed in the chase by a wild boar.2. A pre‰minently beautiful young man; a dandy.3. (Bot.) A genus of plants of the family Ranunculace?, containing the pheasaut's eye (Adonis autumnalis); - named from Adonis, whose blood was fabled to have stained the flower.AÏdo¶nist (?), n. [Heb. ?d?n¾i my Lords.] One who maintains that points of the Hebrew word translated ½Jehovah¸ are really the vowel points of the word ½Adonai.¸ See Jehovist.Ad¶oÏnize (?), v. t. [Cf. F. adoniser, fr. Adonis.] To beautify; to dandify.I employed three good hours at least in adjusting and adonozing myself.Smollett.AÏdoor (?), AÏdoors (?), } At the door; of the door; as, out adoors.Shak.I took him in adoors.Vicar's Virgil (1630).AÏdopt¶ (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Adopted; p. pr. & vb. n. Adopting.] [L. adoptare; ad + optare to choose, desire: cf. F. adopter. See Option.] 1. To take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.; esp. to take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be in the place of, or as, one's own child.2. To take or receive as one's own what is not so naturally; to select and take or approve; as, to adopt the view or policy of another; these resolutions were adopted.AÏdopt¶aÏble (?), a. Capable of being adopted.AÏdopt¶ed (?), a. Taken by adoption; taken up as one's own; as, an adopted son, citizen, country, word. - AÏdopt¶edÏly, adv.AÏdopt¶er (?), n. 1. One who adopts.2. (Chem.) A receiver, with two necks, opposite to each other, one of which admits the neck of a retort, and the other is joined to another receiver. It is used in distillations, to give more space to elastic vapors, to increase the length of the neck of a retort, or to unite two vessels whose openings have different diameters. [Written also adapter.]AÏdop¶tion (?), n. [L. adoptio, allied to adoptare to adopt: cf. F. adoption.] 1. The act of adopting, or state of being adopted; voluntary acceptance of a child of other parents to be the same as one's own child.2. Admission to a more intimate relation; reception; as, the adoption of persons into hospitals or monasteries, or of one society into another.3. The choosing and making that to be one's own which originally was not so; acceptance; as, the adoption of opinions.Jer. Taylor.AÏdop¶tionÏist, n. (Eccl. Hist.) One of a sect which maintained that Christ was the Son of God not by nature but by adoption.AÏdop¶tious (?), a. Adopted. [Obs.]AÏdopt¶ive (?), a. [L. adoptivus: cf. F. adoptif.] Pertaining to adoption; made or acquired by adoption; fitted to adopt; as, an adoptive father, an child; an adoptive language. - AÏdopt¶iveÏly, adv.AÏdor·aÏbil¶iÏty (?), n. Adorableness.AÏdor¶aÏble (?), a. [L. adorabilis, fr. adorare: cf. F. adorable.] 1. Deserving to be adored; worthy of divine honors.The adorable Author of Christianity.Cheyne.2. Worthy of the utmost love or respect.AÏdor¶aÏbleÏness, n. The quality of being adorable, or worthy of adoration.Johnson.AÏdor¶aÏbly, adv. In an adorable manner.Ad·oÏra¶tion (?), n. [L. adoratio, fr. adorare: cf. F. adoration.] 1. The act of playing honor to a divine being; the worship paid to God; the act of addressing as a god.The more immediate objects of popular adoration amongst the heathens were deified human beings.Farmer.2. Homage paid to one in high esteem; profound veneration; intense regard and love; fervent devotion.3. A method of electing a pope by the expression of homage from two thirds of the conclave.[Pole] might have been chosen on the spot by adoration.Froude.AÏdore¶ (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Adored (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Adoring (?).] [OE. aouren, anouren, adoren, OF. aorer, adorer, F. adorer, fr. L. adorare; ad + orare to speak, pray, os, oris, mouth. In OE. confused with honor, the French prefix aÏ being confused with OE. a, an, on. See Oral.] 1. To worship with profound reverence; to pay divine honors to; to honor as deity or as divine.Bishops and priests, … bearing the host, which he [James ?.] publicly adored.Smollett.2. To love in the highest degree; to regard with the utmost esteem and affection; to idolize.The great mass of the population abhorred Popery and adored Montouth.Macaulay.AÏdore¶, v. t. To adorn. [Obs.]Congealed little drops which do the morn adore.Spenser.AÏdore¶ment (?), n. The act of adoring; adoration. [Obs.]Sir T. Browne.AÏdor¶er (?), n. One who adores; a worshiper; one who admires or loves greatly; an ardent admirer. ½An adorer of truth.¸Clarendon.I profess myself her adorer, not her friend.Shak.AÏdor¶ingÏly, adv. With adoration.AÏdorn¶ (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Adorned (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Adorning.] [OE. aournen, anournen, adornen, OF. aorner, fr. L. aaornare; ad + ornare to furnish, embellish. See Adore, Ornate.] To deck or dress with ornaments; to embellish; to set off to advantage; to render pleasing or attractive.As a bride adorneth herself with her jewels.Isa. lxi. 10.At church, with meek and unaffected grace,His looks adorned the venerable place.Goldsmith.Syn. - To deck; decorate; embellish; ornament; beautify; grace; dignify; exalt; honor. - To Adorn, Ornament, Decorate, Embellish. We decorate and ornament by putting on some adjunct which is attractive or beautiful, and which serves to heighten the general effect. Thus, a lady's head-dress may be ornament or decorated with flowers or jewelry; a hall may be decorated or ornament with carving or gilding, with wreaths of flowers, or with hangings. Ornament is used in a wider sense than decorate. To embellish is to beautify or ornament richly, not so much by mere additions or details as by modifying the thing itself as a whole. It sometimes means gaudy and artificial decoration. We embellish a book with rich engravings; a style is embellished with rich and beautiful imagery; a shopkeeper embellishes his front window to attract attention. Adorn is sometimes identical with decorate, as when we say, a lady was adorned with jewels. In other cases, it seems to imply something more. Thus, we speak of a gallery of paintings as adorned with the works of some of the great masters, or adorned with noble statuary and columns. Here decorated and ornamented would hardly be appropriate. There is a value in these works of genius beyond mere show and ornament. Adorn may be used of what is purely moral; as, a character adorned with every Christian grace. Here neither decorate, nor ornament, nor embellish is proper.AÏdorn¶, n. Adornment. [Obs.]Spenser.AÏdorn¶, a. Adorned; decorated. [Obs.]Milton.Ad·orÏna¶tion (?), n. Adornment. [Obs.]AÏdorn¶er (?), n. He who, or that which, adorns; a beautifier.AÏdorn¶ingÏly, adv. By adorning; decoratively.AÏdorn¶ment (?), n. [Cf. OF. adornement. See Adorn.] An adorning; an ornament; a decoration.AdÏos¶cuÏla¶tion (?), n. [L. adosculari, adosculatum, to kiss. See Osculate.] (Biol.) Impregnation by external contact, without intromission.AÏdown¶ (?), adv. [OE. adun, adoun, adune. AS. of d?ne off the hill. See Down.] From a higher to a lower situation; downward; down, to or on the ground. [Archaic] ½Thrice did she sink adown.¸Spenser.AÏdown¶, prep. Down. [Archaic & Poetic]Her hair adown her shoulders loosely lay displayed.Prior.AdÏpress¶ (?), v. t. [L. adpressus, p. p. of adprimere.] See Appressed. - AdÏpressed¶ (?), a.AÏdrad¶ (?), p. a. [P. p. of adread.] Put in dread; afraid. [Obs.]Chaucer.Ad¶raÏgant (?), n. [F., a corruption of tragacanth.] Gum tragacanth.Brande & C.AÏdread¶ (?), v. t. & i. [AS. andr‘dan, ondr‘; pref. aÏ (for and against) + dr‘den to dread. See Dread.] To dread. [Obs.]Sir P. Sidney.AÏdreamed¶ (?), p. p. Visited by a dream; - used in the phrase, To be adreamed, to dream. [Obs.]AdÏre¶nal (?), a. [Pref. adÏ + renal.] (Anat.) Suprarenal.A¶driÏan (?), a. [L. Hadrianus.] Pertaining to the Adriatic Sea; as, Adrian billows.A·driÏat¶ic (?), a. [L. Adriaticus, Hadriaticus, fr. Adria or Hadria, a town of the Veneti.] Of or pertaining to a sea so named, the northwestern part of which is known as the Gulf of Venice.AÏdrift¶ (?), adv. & a. [Pref. aÏ (for on) + drift.] Floating at random; in a drifting condition; at the mercy of wind and waves. Also fig.So on the sea shall be set adrift.Dryden.Were from their daily labor turned adrift.Wordsworth.AÏdrip¶ (?), adv. & a. [Pref. aÏ in + drip.] In a dripping state; as, leaves all adrip.D. G. Mitchell.Ad¶roÏgate (?), v. t. [See Arrogate.] (Rom. L?w) To adopt (a person who is his own master).Ad·roÏga¶tion (?), n. [L. adrogatio, arrogatio, fr. adrogare. See Arrogate.] (Rom. Law) A kind of adoption in ancient Rome. See Arrogation.AÏdroit¶ (?), a. [F. adroit; … (L. ad) = droit straight, right, fr. L. directus, p. p. of dirigere. See Direct.] Dexterous in the use of the hands or in the exercise of the mental faculties; exhibiting skill and readiness in avoiding danger or escaping difficulty; ready in invention or execution; - applied to persons and to acts; as, an adroit mechanic, an adroit reply. ½Adroit in the application of the telescope and quadrant.¸ Horsley. ½He was adroit in intrigue.¸Macaulay.Syn. - Dexterous; skillful; expert; ready; clever; deft; ingenious; cunning; ready-witted.AÏdroit¶ly, adv. In an adroit manner.AÏdroit¶ness, n. The quality of being adroit; skill and readiness; dexterity.Adroitness was as requisite as courage.Motley.Syn. - See Skill.AÏdry¶ (?), a. [Pref. aÏ (for on) + dry.] In a dry or thirsty condition. ½A man that is adry.¸Burton.Ad·sciÏti¶tious (?), a. [L. adscitus, p. p. of adsciscere, asciscere, to take knowingly; ad + sciscere to seek to know, approve, scire to know.] Supplemental; additional; adventitious; ascititious. ½Adscititious evidence.¸ Bowring. Ð Ad·sciÏti¶tiousÏly, adv.Ad¶script (?), a. [L. adscriptus, p. p. of adscribere to enroll. See Ascribe.] Held to service as attached to the soil; - said of feudal serfs.Ad¶script (?), n. One held to service as attached to the glebe or estate; a feudal serf.Bancroft.AdÏscrip¶tive (?), a.[L. adscriptivus. See Adscript.] Attached or annexed to the glebe or estate and transferable with it.Brougham.AdÏsig·niÏfiÏca¶tion (?), n. Additional signification. [R.]Tooke.AdÏsig¶niÏfy (?), v. t. [L. adsignificare to show.] To denote additionally. [R.]Tooke.AdÏstrict¶ (?), v. t. Ð AdÏstric¶tion (?), n. See Astrict, and Astriction.AdÏstric¶toÏry (?), a. See Astrictory.AdÏstrin¶gent (?), a. See Astringent.Ø Ad·uÏla¶riÏa (?), n. [From Adula, a mountain peak in Switzerland, where fine specimens are found.] (Min.) A transparent or translucent variety of common feldspar, or orthoclase, which often shows pearly opalescent reflections; - called by lapidaries moonstone.Ad¶uÏlate (?), v. t. [L. adulatus, p. p. of adulari.] To flatter in a servile way.Byron.Ad·uÏla¶tion (?), n. [F. adulation, fr. L. adulatio, fr. adulari, adulatum, to flatter.] Servile flattery; praise in excess, or beyond what is merited.Think'st thou the fiery fever will go outWith titles blown from adulation?Shak.Syn. - Sycophancy; cringing; fawning; obsequiousness; blandishment. - Adulation, Flattery, Compliment. Men deal in compliments from a desire to please; they use flattery either from undue admiration, or a wish to gratify vanity; they practice adulation from sordid motives, and with a mingled spirit of falsehood and hypocrisy. Compliment may be a sincere expression of due respect and esteem, or it may be unmeaning; flattery is apt to become gross; adulation is always servile, and usually fulsome.Ad¶uÏla·tor (?), n.b [L., fr. adulari: cf. F. adulateur.] A servile or hypocritical flatterer.Carlyle.Ad¶uÏlaÏtoÏry (?), a. [L. adulatorius, fr. adulari: cf. OF. adulatoire.] Containing excessive praise or compliment; servilely praising; flattering; as, an adulatory address.A mere rant of adulatory freedom.Burke.Ad¶uÏla·tress (?), n. A woman who flatters with servility.AÏdult¶ (?), a. [L. adultus, p. p. of adolescere, akin to alere to nourish: cf. F. adulte. See Adolescent, Old.] Having arrived at maturity, or to full size and strength; matured; as, an adult person or plant; an adult ape; an adult age.AÏdult¶, n. A person, animal, or plant grown to full size and strength; one who has reached maturity.µ In the common law, the term is applied to a person who has attained full age or legal majority; in the civil law, to males after the age of fourteen, and to females after twelve.Bouvier. Burrill.AÏdul¶ter (?), v. i. [L. adulterare.] To commit adultery; to pollute. [Obs.]B. Jonson.AÏdul¶terÏant (?), n. [L. adulterans, p. pr. of adulterare.] That which is used to adulterate anything. - a. Adulterating; as, adulterant agents and processes.AÏdul¶terÏate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Adulterated (?); p. pr. & vb. n Adulterating (?).] [L. adulteratus, p. p. of adulterare, fr. adulter adulterer, prob. fr. ad + alter other, properly one who approaches another on account of unlawful love. Cf. Advoutry.]1. To defile by adultery. [Obs.]Milton.2. To corrupt, debase, or make impure by an admixture of a foreign or a baser substance; as, to adulterate food, drink, drugs, coin, etc.The present war has… adulterated our tongue with strange words.Spectator.Syn. - To corrupt; defile; debase; contaminate; vitiate; sophisticate.AÏdul¶terÏate, v. i. To commit adultery. [Obs.]AÏdul¶terÏate (?), a. 1. Tainted with adultery.2. Debased by the admixture of a foreign substance; adulterated; spurious.- AÏdul¶terÏateÏly, adv. Ð AÏdul¶terÏateÏness, n.AÏdul·terÏa¶tion (?), n. [L. adulteratio.] 1. The act of adulterating; corruption, or debasement (esp. of food or drink) by foreign mixture.The shameless adulteration of the coin.Prescott.2. An adulterated state or product.AÏdul¶terÏa·tor (?), n. [L.] One who adulterates or corrupts. [R.]Cudworth.AÏdul¶terÏer (?), n. [Formed fr. the verb adulter, with the E. ending Ïer. See Advoutrer.] 1. A man who commits adultery; a married man who has sexual intercourse with a woman not his wife.2. (Script.) A man who violates his religious covenant.Jer. ix. 2.AÏdul¶terÏess (?), n. [Fem. from L. adulter. Cf. Advoutress.] 1. A woman who commits adultery.2. (Script.) A woman who violates her religious engagements.James iv. 4.AÏdul¶terÏine (?), a.[L. adulterinus, fr. adulter.] Proceeding from adulterous intercourse. Hence: Spurious; without the support of law; illegal.When any particular class of artificers or traders thought proper to act as a corporation without a charter, such were called adulterine guilds.Adam Smith.AÏdul¶terÏine, n. An illegitimate child. [R.]AÏdul¶terÏize (?), v. i. To commit adultery.Milton.AÏdul¶terÏous (?), a. 1. Guilty of, or given to, adultery; pertaining to adultery; illicit.Dryden.2. Characterized by adulteration; spurious. ½An adulterous mixture.¸ [Obs.]Smollett.AÏdul¶terÏousÏly, adv. In an adulterous manner.AÏdul¶terÏy (?), n.; pl. Adulteries (?). [L. adulterium. See Advoutry.] 1. The unfaithfulness of a married person to the marriage bed; sexual intercourse by a married man with another than his wife, or voluntary sexual intercourse by a married woman with another than her husband.
µ It is adultery on the part of the married wrongdoer.The word has also been used to characterize the act of an unmarried participator, the other being married. In the United States the definition varies with the local statutes. Unlawful intercourse between two married persons is sometimes called double adultery; between a married and an unmarried person, single adultery.2. Adulteration; corruption. [Obs.]B. Jonson.3. (Script.) (a) Lewdness or unchastity of thought as well as act, as forbidden by the seventh commandment. (b) Faithlessness in religion.Jer. iii. 9.4. (Old Law) The fine and penalty imposed for the offense of adultery.5. (Eccl.) The intrusion of a person into a bishopric during the life of the bishop.6. Injury; degradation; ruin. [Obs.]You might wrest the caduceus out of my hand to the adultery and spoil of nature.B. Jonson.AÏdult¶ness (?), n. The state of being adult.AdÏum¶brant (?), a. [L. adumbrans, p. pr. of adumbrare.] Giving a faint shadow, or slight resemblance; shadowing forth.AdÏum¶brate (?), v. t. [L. adumbratus, p. p. of adumbrare; ad + umbrare to shade; umbra shadow.]4. To give a faint shadow or slight representation of; to outline; to shadow forth.Both in the vastness and the richness of the visible universe the invisible God is adumbrated.L. Taylor.2. To overshadow; to shade.Ad·umÏbra¶tion (?), n. [L. adumbratio.] 1. The act of adumbrating, or shadowing forth.2. A faint sketch; an outline; an imperfect portrayal or representation of a thing.Elegant adumbrations of sacred truth.Bp. Horsley.3. (Her.) The shadow or outlines of a figure.AdÏum¶braÏtive (?), a. Faintly representing; typical.Carlyle.Ad·uÏna¶tion (?), n. [L. adunatio; ad + unus one.] A uniting; union.Jer. Taylor.AÏdunc¶, AÏdunque¶ (?), a. (Zo”l.) Hooked; as, a parrot has an adunc bill.AÏdun¶ciÏty (?), n. [L. aduncitas. See Aduncous.] Curvature inwards; hookedness.The aduncity of the beaks of hawks.Pope.AÏdun¶cous (?), a. [L. aduncus; ad + uncus hooked, hook.] Curved inwards; hooked.AÏdure¶ (?), v. t. [L. adurere; ad + urere to burn.] To burn up. [Obs.]Bacon.AÏdust¶ (?), a. [L. adustus, p. p. of adurere: cf. F. aduste.] 1. Inflamed or scorched; fiery. ½The Libyan air adust.½Milton.2. Looking as if or scorched; sunburnt.A tall, thin man, of an adust complexion.Sir W. Scott.3. (Med.) Having much heat in the constitution and little serum in the blood. [Obs.] Hence: Atrabilious; sallow; gloomy.AÏdust¶ed, a. Burnt; adust. [Obs.]Howell.AÏdust¶iÏble (?), a. That may be burnt. [Obs.]AÏdus¶tion (?; 106), n. [L. adustio, fr. adurere, adustum: cf. F. adustion.] 1. The act of burning, or heating to dryness; the state of being thus heated or dried. [Obs. or R.]Harvey.2. (Surg.) Cauterization.Buchanan.Ø Ad vaÏlo¶rem (?). [L., according to the value.] (Com.) A term used to denote a duty or charge laid upon goods, at a certain rate per cent upon their value, as stated in their invoice, Ð in opposition to a specific sum upon a given quantity or number; as, an ad valorem duty of twenty per cent.AdÏvance¶ (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Advanced (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Advancing (?)(?).] [OE. avancen, avauncen, F. avancer, fr. a supposed LL. abantiare; ab + ante (F. avant) before. The spelling with d was a mistake, aÏ being supposed to be fr. L. ad. See Avaunt.] 1. To bring forward; to move towards the van or front; to make to go on.2. To raise; to elevate. [Archaic]They… advanced their eyelids.Shak.3. To raise to a higher rank; to promote.Ahasueres… advanced him, and set his seat above all the princes.Esther iii. 1.4. To accelerate the growth or progress; to further; to forward; to help on; to aid; to heighten; as, to advance the ripening of fruit; to advance one's interests.5. To bring to view or notice; to offer or propose; to show; as, to advance an argument.Some ne'er advance a judgment of their own.Pope.6. To make earlier, as an event or date; to hasten.7. To furnish, as money or other value, before it becomes due, or in aid of an enterprise; to supply beforehand; as, a merchant advances money on a contract or on goods consigned to him.8. To raise to a higher point; to enhance; to raise in rate; as, to advance the price of goods.9. To extol; to laud. [Obs.]Greatly advancing his gay chivalry.Spenser.Syn. Ð To raise; elevate; exalt; aggrandize; improve; heighten; accelerate; allege; adduce; assign.AdÏvance¶, v. i. 1. To move or go forward; to proceed; as, he advanced to greet me.2. To increase or make progress in any respect; as, to advance in knowledge, in stature, in years, in price.3. To rise in rank, office, or consequence; to be preferred or promoted.Advanced to a level with ancient peers.Prescott.AdÏvance¶, n. [Cf. F. avance, fr. avancer. See Advance, v.] 1. The act of advancing or moving forward or upward; progress.2. Improvement or progression, physically, mentally, morally, or socially; as, an advance in health, knowledge, or religion; an advance in rank or office.3. An addition to the price; rise in price or value; as, an advance on the prime cost of goods.4. The first step towards the attainment of a result; approach made to gain favor, to form an acquaintance, to adjust a difference, etc.; an overture; a tender; an offer; Ð usually in the plural.[He] made the like advances to the dissenters.Swift.5. A furnishing of something before an equivalent is received (as money or goods), towards a capital or stock, or on loan; payment beforehand; the money or goods thus furnished; money or value supplied beforehand.I shall, with pleasure, make the necessary advances.Jay.The account was made up with intent to show what advances had been made.Kent.In advance (a) In front; before. (b) Beforehand; before an equivalent is received. (c) In the state of having advanced money on account; as, A is advance to B a thousand dollars or pounds.AdÏvance¶ (?), a. Before in place, or beforehand in time; Ð used for advanced; as, an advance guard, or that before the main guard or body of an army; advance payment, or that made before it is due; advance proofs, advance sheets, pages of a forthcoming volume, received in advance of the time of publication.AdÏvanced¶ (?), a. 1. In the van or front.2. In the front or before others, as regards progress or ideas; as, advanced opinions, advanced thinkers.3. Far on in life or time.A gentleman advanced in years, with a hard experience written in his wrinkles.Hawthorne.Advanced guard, a detachment of troops which precedes the march of the main body.AdÏvance¶ment (?), n. [OE. avancement, F. avancement. See Advance, v. t.] 1. The act of advancing, or the state of being advanced; progression; improvement; furtherance; promotion to a higher place or dignity; as, the advancement of learning.In heaven… every one (so well they love each other) rejoiceth and hath his part in each other's advancement.Sir T. More.True religion… proposes for its end the joint advancement of the virtue and happiness of the people.Horsley.2. An advance of money or value; payment in advance. See Advance, 5.3. (Law) Property given, usually by a parent to a child, in advance of a future distribution.4. Settlement on a wife, or jointure. [Obs.]Bacon.AdÏvan¶cer (?), n. 1. One who advances; a promoter.2. A second branch of a buck's antler.Howell.AdÏvan¶cive (?), a. Tending to advance. [R.]AdÏvan¶tage (?; 61, 48), n. [OE. avantage, avauntage, F. avantage, fr. avant before. See Advance, and cf. Vantage.] 1. Any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success, or to any desired end; benefit; as, the enemy had the advantage of a more elevated position.Give me advantage of some brief discourse.Shak.The advantages of a close alliance.Macaulay.2. Superiority; mastery; Ð with of or over.Lest Satan should get an advantage of us.2 Cor. ii. 11.3. Superiority of state, or that which gives it; benefit; gain; profit; as, the advantage of a good constitution.4. Interest of money; increase; overplus (as the thirteenth in the baker's dozen). [Obs.]And with advantage means to pay thy love.Shak.Advantage ground, vantage ground. [R.] Clarendon. Ð To have the advantage of (any one), to have a personal knowledge of one who does not have a reciprocal knowledge. ½You have the advantage of me; I don't remember ever to have had the honor.¸ Sheridan. Ð To take advantage of, to profit by; (often used in a bad sense) to overreach, to outwit.Syn. Ð Advantage, Advantageous, Benefit, Beneficial. We speak of a thing as a benefit, or as beneficial, when it is simply productive of good; as, the benefits of early discipline; the beneficial effects of adversity. We speak of a thing as an advantage, or as advantageous, when it affords us the means of getting forward, and places us on a ½vantage ground¸ for further effort. Hence, there is a difference between the benefits and the advantages of early education; between a beneficial and an advantageous investment of money.AdÏvan¶tage, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Advantaged (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Advantaging (?).] [F. avantager, fr. avantage. See Advance.] To give an advantage to; to further; to promote; to benefit; to profit.The truth is, the archbishop's own stiffness and averseness to comply with the court designs, advantaged his adversaries against him.Fuller.What is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away?Luke ix. 25.To advantage one's self of, to avail one's self of. [Obs.]AdÏvan¶tageÏaÏble (?), a. Advantageous. [Obs.]Ad·vanÏta¶geous (?), a. [F. avantageux, fr. avantage.] Being of advantage; conferring advantage; gainful; profitable; useful; beneficial; as, an advantageous position; trade is advantageous to a nation.Advabtageous comparison with any other country.Prescott.You see… of what use a good reputation is, and how swift and advantageous a harbinger it is, wherever one goes.Chesterfield.Ad·vanÏta¶geousÏly, adv. Profitably; with advantage.Ad·vanÏta¶geousÏness, n. Profitableness.AdÏvene¶ (?), v. i. [L. advenire; ad + venire to come: cf. F. avenir, advenir. See Come.] To accede, or come (to); to be added to something or become a part of it, though not essential. [R.]Where no act of the will advenes as a coefficient.Coleridge.AdÏven¶ient (?), a. [L. adviens, p. pr. Coming from outward causes; superadded. [Obs.]Ad·vent (?), n. [L. adventus, fr. advenire, adventum: cf. F. avent. See Advene.] 1. (Eccl.) The period including the four Sundays before Christmas.Advent Sunday (Eccl.), the first Sunday in the season of Advent, being always the nearest Sunday to the feast of St. Andrew (Now. 30).Shipley.2. The first or the expected second coming of Christ.3. Coming; any important arrival; approach.Death's dreadful advent.Young.Expecting still his advent home.Tennyson.Ad¶ventÏist (?), n. One of a religious body, embracing several branches, who look for the proximate personal coming of Christ; Ð called also Second Adventists.SchaffÐHerzog Encyc.Ad·venÏti¶tious (?), a. [L. adventitius.] 1. Added extrinsically; not essentially inherent; accidental or causal; additional; supervenient; foreign.To things of great dimensions, if we annex an adventitious idea of terror, they become without comparison greater.Burke.2. (Nat. Hist.) Out of the proper or usual place; as, adventitious buds or roots.3. (Bot.) Accidentally or sparingly spontaneous in a country or district; not fully naturalized; adventive; Ð applied to foreign plants.4. (Med.) Acquired, as diseases; accidental.Ð Ad·venÏti¶tiousÏly, adv. Ð Ad·venÏti¶tiousÏness, n.AdÏven¶tive (?), a. 1. Accidental.2. (Bot.) Adventitious.Gray.AdÏven¶tive, n. A thing or person coming from without; an immigrant. [R.]Bacon.AdÏven¶tuÏal (?; 135), a. Relating to the season of advent.Sanderson.AdÏven¶ture (?; 135), n. [OE. aventure, aunter, anter, F. aventure, fr. LL. adventura, fr. L. advenire, adventum, to arrive, which in the Romance languages took the sense of ½to happen, befall.¸ See Advene.]1. That which happens without design; chance; hazard; hap; hence, chance of danger or loss.Nay, a far less good to man it will be found, if she must, at all adventures, be fastened upon him individually.Milton.2. Risk; danger; peril. [Obs.]He was in great adventure of his life.Berners.3. The encountering of risks; hazardous and striking enterprise; a bold undertaking, in which hazards are to be encountered, and the issue is staked upon unforeseen events; a daring feat.He loved excitement and adventure.Macaulay.4. A remarkable occurrence; a striking event; a stirring incident; as, the adventures of one's life.Bacon.5. A mercantile or speculative enterprise of hazard; a venture; a shipment by a merchant on his own account.A bill of adventure (Com.), a writing setting forth that the goods shipped are at the owner's risk.Syn. Ð Undertaking; enterprise; venture; event.AdÏven¶ture, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Adventured (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Adventuring (?).] [OE. aventuren, auntren, F. aventurer, fr. aventure. See Adventure, n.] 1. To risk, or hazard; jeopard; to venture.He would not adventure himself into the theater.Acts xix. 31.2. To venture upon; to run the risk of; to dare.Yet they adventured to go back.Bunyan,Discriminations might be adventured.J. Taylor.AdÏven¶ture, v. i. To try the chance; to take the risk.I would adventure for such merchandise.Shak.AdÏven¶tureÏful (?), a. Given to adventure.AdÏven¶turÏer (?), n. [Cf. F. aventurier.]1. One who adventures; as, the merchant adventurers; one who seeks his fortune in new and hazardous or perilous enterprises.2. A social pretender on the lookout for advancement.AdÏven¶tureÏsome (?), a. Full of risk; adventurous; venturesome. Ð AdÏven¶tureÏsomeÏness, n.AdÏven¶turÏess (?), n. A female adventurer; a woman who tries to gain position by equivocal means.AdÏven¶turÏous (?), a. [OE. aventurous, aunterous, OF. aventuros, F. aventureux, fr. aventure. See Adventure, n.] 1. Inclined to adventure; willing to incur hazard; prone to embark in hazardous enterprise; rashly daring; Ð applied to persons.Bold deed thou hast presumed, adventurous Eve.Milton.2. Full of hazard; attended with risk; exposing to danger; requiring courage; rash; Ð applied to acts; as, an adventurous undertaking, deed, song.Syn. Ð Rash; foolhardy; presumptuous; enterprising; daring; hazardous; venturesome. See Rash.AdÏven¶turÏousÏly, adv. In an adventurous manner; venturesomely; boldly; daringly.AdÏven¶turÏousÏness, n. The quality or state of being adventurous; daring; venturesomeness.Ad¶verb (?), n. [L. adverbium; ad + verbum word, verb: cf. F. adverbe.] (Gram.) A word used to modify the sense of a verb, participle, adjective, or other adverb, and usually placed near it; as, he writes well; paper extremely white.AdÏver¶biÏal (?), a. [L. adverbialis: cf. F. adverbial.] Of or pertaining to an adverb; of the nature of an adverb; as, an adverbial phrase or form.AdÏver·biÏal¶iÏty (?), n. The quality of being adverbial.Earle.AdÏver¶biÏalÏize (?), v. t. To give the force or form of an adverb to.AdÏver¶biÏalÏly, adv. In the manner of an adverb.Ø Ad·verÏsa¶riÏa (?), n. pl. [L. adversaria (sc. scripta), neut. pl. of adversarius.] A miscellaneous collection of notes, remarks, or selections; a commonplace book; also, commentaries or notes.These parchments are supposed to have been St. Paul's adversaria.Bp. Bull.Ad·verÏsa¶riÏous (?), a. Hostile. [R.]Southey.Ad·verÏsaÏry (?), n.; pl. Adversaries (?). [OE. adversarie, direct fr. the Latin, and adversaire, fr. OF. adversier, aversier, fr. L. adversarius (a.) turned toward, (n.) an adversary. See Adverse.] One who is turned against another or others with a design to oppose
or resist them; a member of an opposing or hostile party; an opponent; an antagonist; an enemy; a foe. His ancient knot of dangerous adversaries. Shak. Agree with thine adversary quickly. Matt. v. 25. It may be thought that to vindicate the permanency of truth is to dispute without an adversary. Beattie. The Adversary, The Satan, or the Devil. Syn. - Adversary, Enemy, Opponent, Antagonist. Enemy is the only one of these words which necessarily implies a state of personal hostility. Men may be adversaries, antagonists, or opponents to each other in certain respects, and yet have no feelings of general animosity. An adversary may be simply one who is placed for a time in a hostile position, as in a lawsuit, an argument, in chess playing, or at fence. An opponent is one who is ranged against another (perhaps passively) on the opposing side; as a political opponent, an opponent in debate. An antagonist is one who struggles against another with active effort, either in a literal fight or in verbal debate. Ad¶verÏsaÏry (?), a. 1. Opposed; opposite; adverse; antagonistic. [Archaic] Bp. King. 2. (Law) Having an opposing party; not unopposed; as, an adversary suit. AdÏver¶saÏtive (?), a. [L. adversativus, fr. adversari.] Expressing contrariety, opposition, or antithesis; as, an adversative conjunction (but, however, yet, etc.); an adversative force. - AdÏver¶saÏtiveÏly, adv. AdÏver¶saÏtive, n. An adversative word. Harris. Ad¶verse (?), a. [OE. advers, OF. avers, advers, fr. L. adversus, p. p. advertere to turn to. See Advert.] 1. Acting against, or in a contrary direction; opposed; contrary; opposite; conflicting; as, adverse winds; an adverse party; a spirit adverse to distinctions of caste. 2. Opposite. ½Calpe's adverse height.¸ Byron. 3. In hostile opposition to; unfavorable; unpropitious; contrary to one's wishes; unfortunate; calamitous; afflictive; hurtful; as, adverse fates, adverse circumstances, things adverse. Happy were it for us all if we bore prosperity as well and wisely as we endure an adverse fortune. Southey. ÷ possession (Law), a possession of real property avowedly contrary to some claim of title in another person. Abbott. Syn. - Averse; reluctant; unwilling. See Averse. AdÏverse¶ (?), v. t. [L. adversari: cf. OF. averser.] To oppose; to resist. [Obs.] Gower. Ad¶verseÏly (277), adv. In an adverse manner; inimically; unfortunately; contrariwise. Ad¶verseÏness, n. The quality or state of being adverse; opposition. AdÏver·siÏfo¶liÏate (?), AdÏver·siÏfo¶liÏous (?) } a. [L. adver + folium leaf.] (Bot.) Having opposite leaves, as plants which have the leaves so arranged on the stem. AdÏver¶sion (?), n.[L. adversio] A turning towards; attention. [Obs.] Dr. H. More. AdÏver¶siÏty (?), n.; pl. Adversities (?).[OE. adversite, F. adversit‚, fr. L. adversitas.] 1. Opposition; contrariety. [Obs.] Wyclif. 2. A condition attended with severe trials; a state of adverse fortune; misfortune; calamity; affliction, trial; - opposed to wellÐbeing or prosperity. Adversity is not without comforts and hopes. Bacon. Syn. - Affliction; distress; misery; disaster; trouble; suffering; trial. AdÏvert¶ (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Adverted; p. pr. & vb. n. Adverting.] [L. advertere, v. t., to turn to; ad + vertere to turn: cf. F. avertir. See Advertise.] To turn the mind or attention; to refer; to take heed or notice; - with to; as, he adverted to what was said. I may again advert to the distinction. Owen. Syn.- To refer; allude; regard. See Refer. AdÏvert¶ence (?), AdÏvert¶enÏcy (?), } [OF. advertence, avertence, LL. advertentia, fr. L. advertens. See Advertent.] The act of adverting, of the quality of being advertent; attention; notice; regard; heedfulness. To this difference it is right that advertence should be had in regulating taxation. J. S. Mill. AdÏvert¶ent (?), a. [L. advertens, Ïentis, p. pr. of advertere. See Advert.] Attentive; heedful; regardful. Sir M. Hale. Ð AdÏvert¶entÏly, adv. Ad·verÏtise¶ (?; 277), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Advertised (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Advertising (?).] [F. avertir, formerly also spelt advertir, to warn, give notice to, L. advertere to turn to. The ending was probably influenced by the noun advertisement. See Advert.] To give notice to; to inform or apprise; to notify; to make known; hence, to warn; - often followed by of before the subject of information; as, to advertise a man of his loss. [Archaic] I will advertise thee what this people shall do. Num. xxiv. 14. 4. To give public notice of; to announce publicly, esp. by a printed notice; as, to advertise goods for sale, a lost article, the sailing day of a vessel, a political meeting. Syn. - To apprise; inform; make known; notify; announce; proclaim; promulgate; publish. AdÏver¶tiseÏment (?; 277), n. [F.avertisement, formerly also spelled advertissement, a warning, giving notice, fr. avertir.] 1. The act of informing or notifying; notification. [Archaic] An advertisement of danger. Bp. Burnet. 2. Admonition; advice; warning. [Obs.] Therefore give me no counsel: My griefs cry louder than advertisement. Shak. 3. A public notice, especially a paid notice in some public print; anything that advertises; as, a newspaper containing many advertisement. Ad·verÏtis¶er (?), n. One who, or that which, advertises. AdÏvice¶ (?), n. [OE. avis, F. avis; ? + OF. vis, fr. L. visum seemed, seen; really p. p. of videre to see, so that vis meant that which has seemed best. See Vision, and cf. Avise, Advise.] 1. An opinion recommended or offered, as worthy to be followed; counsel. We may give advice, but we can not give conduct. Franklin. 2. Deliberate consideration; knowledge. [Obs.] How shall I dote on her with more advice, That thus without advice begin to love her? Shak. 3. Information or notice given; intelligence; as, late advices from France; - commonly in the plural. µ In commercial language, advice usually means information communicated by letter; - used chiefly in reference to drafts or bills of exchange; as, a letter of advice. McElrath. 4. (Crim. Law) Counseling to perform a specific illegal act. Wharton. ÷ boat, a vessel employed to carry dispatches or to reconnoiter; a dispatch boat. Ð To take ~. (a) To accept advice. (b) To consult with another or others. Syn. - Counsel; suggestion; recommendation; admonition; exhortation; information; notice. AdÏvis·aÏbil¶iÏty (?), n. The quality of being advisable; advisableness. AdÏvis¶aÏble (?), a. 1. Proper to be advised or to be done; expedient; prudent. Some judge it advisable for a man to account with his heart every day. South. 2. Ready to receive advice. [R.] South. Syn. - Expedient; proper; desirable; befitting. AdÏvis¶aÏbleÏness, n. The quality of being advisable or expedient; expediency; advisability. AdÏvis¶aÏbly, adv. With advice; wisely. AdÏvise¶ (?), v. t.[imp. & p. p. Advised (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Advising (?).] [OE. avisen to perceive, consider, inform, F. aviser, fr. LL. advisare. advisare; ad + visare, fr. L. videre, visum, to see. See Advice, and cf. Avise.] 1. To give advice to; to offer an opinion, as worthy or expedient to be followed; to counsel; to warn. ½I shall no more advise thee.¸ Milton. 2. To give information or notice to; to inform; - with of before the thing communicated; as, we were advised of the risk. To ~ one's self, to bethink one's self; to take counsel with one's self; to reflect; to consider. [Obs.] Bid thy master well advise himself. Shak. Syn. - To counsel; admonish; apprise; acquaint. AdÏvise¶, v. t. 1. To consider; to deliberate. [Obs.] Advise if this be worth attempting. Milton. 2. To take counsel; to consult; - followed by with; as, to advise with friends. AdÏvis¶edÏly (?), adv. 1. Circumspectly; deliberately; leisurely. [Obs.] Shak. 2. With deliberate purpose; purposely; by design. ½ ½Advisedly undertaken.¸ Suckling. AdÏvise¶ment (?), n. [OE. avisement, F. avisement, fr. aviser. See Advise, and cf. Avisement.] 1. Counsel; advise; information. [Archaic] And mused awhile, waking advisement takes of what had passed in sleep. Daniel. 2. Consideration; deliberation; consultation. Tempering the passion with advisement slow. Spenser. AdÏvis¶er (?), n. One who advises. AdÏvis¶erÏship, n. The office of an adviser. [R.] AdÏvi¶so (?), n. [Cf. Sp. aviso. See Advice.] Advice; counsel; suggestion; also, a dispatch or advice boat. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne. AdÏvi¶soÏry (?), a. Having power to advise; containing advice; as, an advisory council; their opinion is merely advisory. The General Association has a general advisory superintendence over all the ministers and churches. Trumbull. Ad¶voÏcaÏcy (?), n. [OF. advocatie, LL. advocatia. See Advocate.] The act of pleading for or supporting; work of advocating; intercession. Ad¶voÏcate (?), n. [OE. avocat, avocet, OF. avocat, fr. L. advocatus, one summoned or called to another; properly the p. p. of advocare to call to, call to one's aid; ad + vocare to call. See Advowee, Avowee, Vocal.] 1. One who pleads the cause of another. Specifically: One who pleads the cause of another before a tribunal or judicial court; a counselor. µ In the English and American Law, advocate is the same as ½counsel,¸ ½counselor,¸ or ½barrister.¸ In the civil and ecclesiastical courts, the term signifies the same as ½counsel¸ at the common law. 2. One who defends, vindicates, or espouses any cause by argument; a pleader; as, an advocate of free trade, an advocate of truth. 3. Christ, considered as an intercessor. We have an Advocate with the Father. 1 John ii. 1. Faculty of advocates (Scot.), the Scottish bar in Edinburgh. Ð Lord ~ (Scot.), the public prosecutor of crimes, and principal crown lawyer. Ð Judge ~. See under Judge. Ad¶voÏcate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Advocated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Advocating (?).] [See Advocate, n., Advoke, Avow.] To plead in favor of; to defend by argument, before a tribunal or the public; to support, vindicate, or recommend publicly. To advocate the cause of thy client. Bp. Sanderson (1624). This is the only thing distinct and sensible, that has been advocated. Burke. Eminent orators were engaged to advocate his cause. Mitford. Ad¶voÏcate, v. i. To act as ~. [Obs.] Fuller. Ad¶voÏcateÏship, n. Office or duty of an advocate. Ad·voÏca¶tion (?), n. [L. advocatio: cf. OF. avocation. See Advowson.] 1. The act of advocating or pleading; plea; advocacy. [Archaic] The holy Jesus… sits in heaven in a perpetual advocation for us. Jer. Taylor. 2. Advowson. [Obs.] The donations or advocations of church livings. Sanderson. 3. (Scots Law) The process of removing a cause from an inferior court to the supreme court. Bell. Ad¶voÏcaÏtoÏry (?), a. Of or pertaining to an advocate. [R.] AdÏvoke¶ (?), v. t. [L. advocare. See Advocate.] To summon; to call. [Obs.] Queen Katharine had privately prevailed with the pope to advoke the cause to Rome. Fuller. Ad·voÏlu¶tion (?), n. [L. advolvere, advolutum, to roll to.] A rolling toward something. [R.] AdÏvou¶trer (?), n. [OF. avoutre, avoltre, fr. L. adulter. Cf. Adulterer.] An adulterer. [Obs.] AdÏvou¶tress (?), n. An adulteress. [Obs.] Bacon. AdÏvou¶try, AdÏvow¶try } (?), n. [OE. avoutrie, avouterie, advoutrie, OF. avoutrie, avulterie, fr. L. adulterium. Cf. Adultery.] Adultery. [Obs.] Bacon. AdÏvowÏee¶ (?), n. [OE. avowe, F. avou‚, fr. L. advocatus. See Advocate, Avowee, Avoyer.] One who has an advowson. Cowell. AdÏvow¶son (?; 277), n. [OE. avoweisoun, OF. avo‰son, fr. L. advocatio. Cf. Advocation.] (Eng. Law) The right of presenting to a vacant benefice or living in the church. [Originally, the relation of a patron (advocatus) or protector of a benefice, and thus privileged to nominate or present to it.] µ The benefices of the Church of England are in every case subjects of presentation. They are nearly 12,000 in number; the advowson of more than half of them belongs to private persons, and of the remainder to the crown, bishops, deans and chapters, universities, and colleges. Amer. Cyc. AdÏvoy¶er (?), n. See Avoyer. [Obs.] AdÏward¶ (?), n. Award. [Obs.] Spenser. Ø Ad·yÏna¶miÏa (?), n. [NL. adynamia, fr. Gr. ? want of strength; ? priv + ? power, strength.] (Med.) Considerable debility of the vital powers, as in typhoid fever. Dunglison. Ad·yÏnam¶ic (?), a. [Cf. F. adynamique. See Adynamy.] 1. (Med.) Pertaining to, or characterized by, debility of the vital powers; weak. 2. (Physics) Characterized by the absence of power or force. ÷ fevers, malignant or putrid fevers attended with great muscular debility. AÏdyn¶aÏmy (?), n. Adynamia. [R.] Morin. Ø Ad¶yÏtum (?), n.; pl. Adyta (?). [L., fr. Gr. ?, n., fr. ?, a., not to be entered; ? priv. + ? to enter.] The innermost sanctuary or shrine in ancient temples, whence oracles were given. Hence: A private chamber; a sanctum. Adz, Adze } (?), n. [OE. adese, adis, adse, AS. adesa, adese, ax, hatchet.] A carpenter's or cooper's tool, formed with a thin arching blade set at right angles to the handle. It is used for chipping or slicing away the surface of wood. Adz, v. t. To cut with an ~. [R.] Carlyle. ’ or Ae. A diphthong in the Latin language; used also by the Saxon writers. It answers to the Gr. ?. The AngloÐSaxon short ‘ was generally replaced by a, the long ? by e or ee. In derivatives from Latin words with ae, it is mostly superseded by e. For most words found with this initial combination, the reader will therefore search under the letter E. Ø ’Ïcid¶iÏum (?), n.; pl. ’cidia (?). [NL., dim. of Gr. ? injury.] (Bot.) A form of fruit in the cycle of development of the Rusts or Brands, an order of fungi, formerly considered independent plants. ’¶dile (?), n. [L. aedilis, fr. aedes temple, public building. Cf. Edify.] A magistrate in ancient Rome, who had the superintendence of public buildings, highways, shows, etc.; hence, a municipal officer. ’¶dileÏship, n. The office of an ‘dile. T. Arnold. ’Ïge¶an (?), a. [L. Aegeus; Gr. ?.] Of or pertaining to the sea, or arm of the Mediterranean sea, east of Greece. See Archipelago. Ø ’·giÏcra¶niÏa (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. ?, ?, goat + ?, n. pl., heads.] (Arch.) Sculptured ornaments, used in classical architecture, representing rams' heads or skulls. ’g¶iÏlops (?), n. [L. aegilopis, Gr. ?, fr. ?, gen. ?, goat + ? eye.] 1. (Med.) An ulcer or fistula in the inner corner of the eye. 2. (Bot.) (a) The great wildÐoat grass or other cornfield weed. Crabb. (b) A genus of plants, called also hardgrass. Ø ’¶gis (?), n. [L. aegis, fr. Gr. ? a goat skin, a shield, ? goat, or fr. ? to rush.] A shield or protective armor; Ð applied in mythology to the shield of Jupiter which he gave to Minerva. Also fig.: A shield; a protection. ’Ïgoph¶oÏny (?), n. Same as Egophony. Ø ’Ïgro¶tat (?), n. [L., he is sick.] (Camb. Univ.) A medical certificate that a student is ill. ’Ïne¶id (?), n. [L. Aeneis, Aeneidis, or Ïdos: cf. F. ?n‚de.] The great epic poem of Virgil, of which the hero is ’neas. Aω¶neÏous (?), a. [L. a‰neus.] (Zo”l.) Colored like bronze. ’Ïo¶liÏan (?), a. [L. Aeolius, Gr. ?.] 1. Of or pertaining to ’olia or ’olis, in Asia Minor, colonized by the Greeks, or to its inhabitants; ‘olic; as, the ’olian dialect. 2. Pertaining to ’olus, the mythic god of the winds; pertaining to, or produced by, the wind; a‰rial. Viewless forms the ‘olian organ play. Campbell. ’olian attachment, a contrivance often attached to a pianoforte, which prolongs the vibrations, increases the