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Actionably

AC'TIONABLY, adverb In a manner that subjects to legal process.

Actionary

AC'TIONARY or AC'TIONIST, noun In Europe, a proprietor of stock in a trading company; one who owns actions or shares of stock.

Actionist

AC'TIONARY or AC'TIONIST, noun In Europe, a proprietor of stock in a trading company; one who owns actions or shares of stock.

Active

ACT'IVE, adjective [Latin activus.]

1. That has the power or quality of acting; that contains the principle of action, independent of any visible external force; as, attraction is an active power: or it may be defined, that communicates action or motion, opposed to passive, that receives action; as, the active powers of the mind.

2. Having the power of quick motion, or disposition to move with speed; nimble; lively; brisk; agile; as an active animal.

Hence,

3. Busy; constantly engaged in action; pursuing business with vigor and assiduity; opposed to dull, slow, or indolent; as an active officer. It is also opposed to sedentary, as an active life.

4. Requiring action or exertion; practical; operative; producing real effects; opposed to speculative; as, the active duties of life.

5. In grammar, active verbs are those which not only signify action, but have a noun or name following them, denoting the object of the action or impression; called also transitive, as they imply the passing of the action expressed by the verb to the object; as a professor instructs his pupils.

6. active capital, or wealth, is money, or property that may readily be converted into money, and used in commerce or other employment for profit.

7. active commerce, the commerce in which a nation carries its own productions and foreign commodities in its own ships, or which is prosecuted by its own citizens; as contradistinguished from passive commerce, in which the productions of one country are transported by the people of another country.

The commerce of Great Britain and of the United States is active; that of China is passive.

It may be the interest of foreign nations to deprive us, as far as possible, of an active commerce in our own bottoms.

Actively

ACT'IVELY, adverb in an active manner; by action; nimbly; briskly; also in an active signification, as a word is used actively

Activeness

ACT'IVENESS, noun the quality of being active; the faculty of acting; nimbleness; quickness of motion; less used than activity.

Activity

ACTIV'ITY, noun The quality of being active; the active faculty; nimbleness; agility; also the habit of diligent and vigorous pursuit of business; as, a man of activity It is applied to persons or things.

Sphere of activity is the whole space in which the virtue, power, or influence of any object, is exerted.

To put in activity a French phrase, for putting in action or employment.

Actor

ACT'OR, noun

1. He that acts or performs; an active agent.

2. He that represents a character or acts a part in a play; a stage player.

3. Among civilians, an advocate or proctor in civil courts or causes.

Actress

ACT'RESS, noun A female who acts or performs, and especially, on the stage, or in a play.

Actual

ACT'UAL, adjective

1. Real or effective, or that exists truly and absolutely; as, actual heat, opposed to that, which is virtual or potential; actual cautery, or the burning by a red-hot iron, opposed to a cautery or caustic application, that may produce the same effect upon the body by a different process.

2. Existing in act; real; in opposition to speculative, or existing in theory only; as an actual crime.

3. In theology, actual sin is that which is committed by a person himself, opposed to original sin, or the corruption of nature supposed to be communicated from Adam.

4. That includes action.

Besides her walking and other actual performances. [Hardly legitimate.]

Actuality

ACTUAL'ITY, noun Reality.

Actually

ACT'UALLY, adverb In fact; really; in truth.

Actuary

ACT'UARY, noun [Latin actuarius.]

A register or clerk; a term of the civil law, and used originally in courts of civil law jurisdiction; but in Europe used for a clerk or register generally.

Actuate

ACT'UATE, adjective Put in action. [Little used.]

ACT'UATE, verb transitive [from act.]

To put into action; to move or incite to action; as, men are actuated by motives, or passions. It seems to have been used formerly in the sense of invigorate, noting increase of action; but the use is not legitimate.

Actuated

ACT'UATED, participle passive Put in action; incited to action.

Actuating

ACT'UATING, participle present tense Putting in action; inciting to action.

Actuation

ACTUA'TION, noun The state of being put in action; effectual operation.

Actus

ACT'US, noun Among the Romans, a measure in building equal to 120 Roman feet. In agriculture, the length of one furrow.

Acuate

AC'UATE, verb transitive [Latin acuo, to sharpen. See Acid.]

To sharpen; to make pungent, or corrosive. [Little used.]

Acubene

ACUBE'NE, noun A star of the fourth magnitude in the southern claw of Cancer.

Acuition

ACUI'TION, noun [from Latin acuo, to sharpen.]

The sharpening of medicines to increase their effect.

Aculeate

ACU'LEATE, adjective [Latin aculeus, from acus, Gr. a point, and the diminutive. See Acid.]

1. In botany, having prickles, or sharp points; pointed; used chiefly to denote prickles fixed in the bark, in distinction from thorns, which grow from the wood.

2. In zoology, having a sting.

Aculei

ACU'LEI, noun [Latin] In botany and zoology, prickles or spines.

Aculon

AC'ULON, or AC'ULOS, noun [Gr. probably from ac, an oak.]

Aculos

AC'ULON, or AC'ULOS, noun [Gr. probably from ac, an oak.]

The fruit or acorn of the ilex, or scarlet oak.

Acumen

ACU'MEN, noun [Latin acumen from acus or acuo.]

A sharp point; and figuratively, quickness of perception, the faculty of nice discrimination.

Acuminate

ACU'MINATE, adjective [Latin acuminatus, from acumen.]

Ending in a sharp point; pointed.

Acuminated

ACU'MINATED, adjective Sharpened to a point.

Acumination

ACUMINA'TION, noun A sharpening; termination in a sharp point.

Acupuncture

ACUPUNC'TURE, noun [Latin acus, needle, and punctura, or punctus, a pricking.]

Among the Chinese, a surgical operation, performed by pricking the part affected with a needle, as in head-aches and lethargies.

Acus

A'CUS, noun [Latin]

1. The needle-fish, or gar-fish.

2. The ammodyte or sand eel.

3. The oblong cimex.

Acute

ACU'TE, adjective [Latin acutus, sharp-pointed; Heb.]

1. Sharp at the end; ending in a sharp point; opposed to blunt or obtuse. An acute angle in geometry, is one which is less than a right angle, or which subtends less than ninety degrees. An acute angled triangle is one whose three angles are all acute or less than ninety degrees each.

2. Figuratively, applied to mental powers; penetrating; having nice discernment; perceiving or using minute distinctions; opposed to dull or stupid; as an acute reasoner.

3. Applied to the senses; having nice or quick sensibility; susceptible of slight impressions; having power to feel or perceive small objects; as, a man of acute eyesight, hearing, or feeling.

4. An acute disease, is one which is attended with violent symptoms, and comes speedily to a crisis, as a pleurisy; opposed to chronic.

5. An acute disease, is one which is attended with violent symptoms, and comes speedily to a crisis, as a pleurisy; opposed to chronic.

6. In music, acute is applied to a tone which is sharp, or high; opposed to grave.

7. In botany, ending in an acute angle, as a leaf or perianth.

Acutely

ACU'TELY, adverb Sharply; keenly; with nice discrimination.

Acuteness

ACU'TENESS, noun

1. Sharpness; but seldom used in this literal sense, as applied to material things.

2. Figuratively, the faculty of nice discernment or perception; applied to the senses, or the understanding. By an acuteness of feeling, we perceive small objects or slight impressions; by an acuteness of intellect, we discern nice distinctions.

3. Sharpness, or elevation of sound, in rhetoric or music.

4. Violence of a disease, which brings it speedily to a crisis.

Acutiator

ACUTIA'TOR, noun In the middle ages, a person whose office was to sharpen instruments. Before the invention of fire-arms, such officers attended armies, to sharpen their instruments.

Ad

AD. A Latin preposition, signifying to. It is probably from Heb. Ch. Syr. Sam. Eth. and Ar. To come near, to approach; from which root we may also deduce at. In composition, the last letter is usually changed into the first letter of the word to which it is prefixed. Thus for adclamo, the Romans wrote acclamo. The reason of this change is found in the ease of pronunciation, and agreeableness of the sounds.

AD hominem, to the man, in logic, an argument, adapted to touch the prejudices of the person addressed.

AD inquirendum, in law, a judicial writ commanding inquiry to be made.

AD libitum [Latin] at pleasure

AD valorem, according to the value, in commerce and finance, terms used to denote duties or charges laid upon goods, at a certain rate per cent, upon their value, as stated in their invoices; in opposition to a specific sum upon a given quantity or number.

Adage

AD'AGE, noun [Latin adagium, or adagio]

A proverb; an old saying, which has obtained credit by long use; a wise observation handed down from antiquity.

Adagio

ADA'GIO, noun [Latin otium; Eng. ease.]

In music, a slow movement. As an adverb, slowly, leisurely, and with grace. When repeated, adagio adagio it directs the movement to be very slow.

Adam

AD'AM, noun In Heb., Man; primarily, the name of the human species, mankind; appropriately, the first Man, the progenitor of the human race. The word signifies form, shape, or suitable form, hence, species. It is evidently connected with Heb., to be like or equal, to form an image, to assimilate. Whence the sense of likeness, image, form, shape; Gr., a body, like. [See Man.]

Adam's apple, a species of citron [See Citron] also the prominent part of the throat.

AD'AM's needle, the popular name of the yucca, a plant of four species, cultivated in gardens. Of the roots, the Indians made a kind of bread. [See Yucca.]

Adamant

AD'AMANT, noun [ Gr.; Latin adamas; a word of Celtic origin.]

A very hard or impenetrable stone; a name given to the diamond and other substances of extreme hardness. The name has often been given to the load stone; but in modern mineralogy, it has no technical signification.

Adamantean

ADAMANTE'AN, adjective Hard as adamant.

Adamantine

ADAMANT'INE, adjective Made of adamant; having the qualities of adamant; that cannot be broken, dissolved, or penetrated, as adamantine bonds, or chains.

Adamantine Spar, a genus of earths, of three varieties. The color of the first is gray, with shades of brown or green; the form when regular, a hexangular prism, two sides large and four small, without a pyramid; its surface striated, and with a thin covering of white mica, interspersed with particles of red felspar; its fracture, foliaceous and sparry. The second variety is whiter, and the texture more foliaceous. The third variety is of a reddish brown color. This stone is very hard, and of difficult fusion.

A variety of corrundum.

Adamic

AD'AMIC, adjective Pertaining to Adam. adamic earth, is the term given to common red clay, so called by means of a mistaken opinion that Adam means red earth.

Adamites

AD'AMITES, in Church history, a sect of visionaries, who pretended to establish a state of innocence, and like Adam, went naked. They abhorred marriage, holding it to be the effect of sin. Several attempts have been made to revive this sec; one as late as the 15th century.

Adamitic

ADAMIT'IC, Like the Adamites.

Adansonia

ADANSO'NIA, noun Ethiopian sour gourd, monkey's bread, of African calabash-tree. It is a tree of one species, called baobab, a native of Africa, and the largest of the vegetable kingdom. The stem rises not above twelve or fifteen feet, but is from sixty-five to seventy-eight feet in circumference. The branches shoot horizontally to the length of sixty feet, the ends bending to the ground. The fruit is oblong, pointed at both ends, ten inches in length, and covered with a greenish down, under which is a hard ligneous rind. It hangs to the tree by a pedicle two feet long, and contains a white spungy substance. The leaves and bark, dried and powdered, are used by the negroes, as pepper, on their food, to promote perspiration. The tree is named from M. Adanson, who has given a description of it.

Adapt

ADAPT' verb transitive [Latin ad. and apto, to fit; Gr.]

To make suitable; to fit or suit; as, to adapt an instrument to its uses; we have provision adapted to our wants. It is applied to things material or immaterial.

Adaptable

ADAPT'ABLE, adjective That may be adapted.

Adaptation

ADAPTA'TION, noun The act of making suitable, or the state of being suitable, or fit; fitness.

Adapted

ADAPT'ED, participle passive Suited; made suitable; fitted.

Adapter

ADAPT'ER. See adopter.

Adapting

ADAPT'ING, participle present tense Suiting; making fit.

Adaption

ADAP'TION, noun Adaptation; the act of fitting [Little used, and hardly legitimate.]

Adaptness

ADAPT'NESS, noun A state of being fitted. [Not used.]

Adar

A'DAR, noun a Hebrew month, answering to the latter part of February, and the beginning of March, the 12th of the sacred and 6th of the civil year; so named to become glorious, from the exuberance of vegetation, in that month, in Egypt and Palestine.

Adarce

ADAR'CE, noun [Gr.]

A saltish concretion on reeds and grass in marshy grounds in Galatia. It is lax and porous, like bastard spunge, and used to clear the skin in leprosy, tetters, etc.

Adarcon

ADAR'CON, noun In Jewish antiquity, a gold coin worth about three dollars and a third, or about fifteen shillings sterling.

Adarme

ADAR'ME, noun A Spanish weight, the sixteenth of an ounce. The Spanish ounce is seven per cent. Lighter than that of Paris.

Adatis

AD'ATIS, noun A muslin or species of cotton cloth from India. It is fine and clear; the piece is ten French ells long, and three quarters wide.

Adaunt

AD'AUNT, verb transitive To subdue. [Not used. See Daunt.]

Adaw

ADAW', verb transitive To daunt; to subject. [Not used.]

Adays

ADA'YS, adverb On or in days; as in the phrase, now adays

Add

ADD, verb transitive [Latin addo, from ad and do, to give.]

1. To set or put together, join or unite, as one thing or sum to another, in an agreegate; as, add three to four, the sum is seven.

2. To unite in idea or consideration; to subjoin.

To what has been alledged, let this argument be added.

3. To increase number.

Thou shalt add three cities more of refuge. Deuteronomy 19:9.

4. To augment.

Rehoboam said, I will add to your yoke. 1 Kings 12:11.

Ye shall not add to the word which I command you. Deuteronomy 4:2.

As here used, the verb is intransitive, but there may be an ellipsis.

To add to, is used in scripture, as equivalent to give, or bestow upon. Genesis 30:24, Matthew 6:27. In Galatians 2:6, the word is understood to signify instruction. 'In conference they added nothing to me.' In narration, he or they added, is elliptical; he added words, or what follows, or he continued his discourse.

In general, when used of things, add implies a principal thing, to which a smaller is to be annexed, as a part of the whole sum, mass, or number.

Addarac

AD'DARAC, noun Red orpiment.

Addecimate

ADDEC'IMATE, verb transitive [Latin ad and decimus, tenth.]

To take, or to ascertain tithes.

Added

ADD'ED, participle passive Joined in place, in sum, in mass or aggregate, in number, in idea or consideration; united; put together.

Addeem

ADDEE'M, verb transitive [See Deem.] To award; to sentence. [Little used.]

Adder

AD'DER, noun [Latin natrix, a serpent.]

A venomous serpent or viper, of several species.

Adder-Fly

AD'DER-FLY, noun a name of the dragon-fly or libellula; sometimes called adder-bolt.

Adders-Grass

ADDER'S-GRASS, noun A plant about which serpents lurk.

Adders-Tongue

ADDER'S-TONGUE, noun A plant whose seeds are produced on a spike resembling a serpent's tongue.

Adders-Wort

ADDER'S-WORT, noun Snakeweed, so named from its supposed virtue in curing the bite of serpent.

Addibility

ADDIBIL'ITY, noun The possibility of being added.

Addible

AD'DIBLE, adjective [See Add.] That may be added.

Addice

AD'DICE, obs. [See Adz.]

Addict

ADDICT', adjective Addicted. [Not much used.]

ADDICT', verb transitive [Latin addico, to devote, from ad and dico, to dedicate.]

To apply one's self habitually; to devote time and attention by customary or constant practice; sometimes in a good sense.

They have addicted themselves to the ministry of the saints. 1 Corinthians 16:15.

More usually, in a bad sense, to follow customarily, or devote, by habitually practicing that which is ill; as, a man is addicted to intemperance.

To addict one's self to a person, a sense borrowed from the Romans, who used the word for assigning debtors in service to their creditors, is found in Ben Jonson, but is not legitimate in English.

Addicted

ADDICT'ED, participle passive Devoted by customary practice.

Addictedness

ADDICT'EDNESS, noun The quality or state of being addicted.

Addicting

ADDICT'ING, participle present tense Devoting time and attention; practicing customarily.

Addiction

ADDIC'TION, noun

1. The act of devoting or giving up in practice; the state of being devoted.

His addiction was to courses vain.

2. Among the Romans, a making over goods to another by sale or legal sentence; also an assignment of debtors in service in their creditors.

Adding

ADD'ING, participle present tense Joining; putting together; increasing.

Additament

ADDIT'AMENT, noun [Latin additamentum, from additus and ment. See Add.]

An addition, or rather the thing added, as furniture in a house; any material mixed with the principal ingredient in a compound. Ancient anatomists gave the name to an epiphysis, or junction of bones without articulation. [Little used in either sense.]

Addition

ADDI'TION, noun [Latin additio, from addo.]

1. The act of adding, opposed to subtraction, or diminution; as, a sum is increased by addition

2. Any thing added, whether material or immaterial.

3. In arithmetic, the uniting of two or more numbers in one sum; also the rule or branch of arithmetic which treats of adding numbers. Simple addition is the joining of sums of the same denomination, as pounds to pounds, dollars to dollars. Compound addition is the joining of sums of different denominations, as dollars and cents.

4. In law, a title annexed to a man's name, to show his rank, occupation or place of residence; as John Doe, Esq.; Richard Roe, Gent; Robert Dale, Mason; Thomas Way, of New York.

5. In music, a dot at the side of a note, to lengthen its sound one half.

6. In heraldry, something added to a coat of arms, as a mark of honor, opposed to abatements, as bordure, quarter, canton, gyron, pile, etc. See these terms.

7. In distilling, any thing added to the wash or liquor in a state of fermentation.

8. In popular language, an advantage, ornament, improvement; that is, an addition by way of eminence.

Additional

ADDI'TIONAL, adjective That is added. it is used by Bacon for addition; but improperly.

Additionally

ADDI'TIONALLY, adverb By way of addition.

Additive

ADD'ITIVE, adjective That may be added, or that is to be added.

Additory

ADD'ITORY, adjective That adds, or may add.

Addle

AD'DLE, adjective [Heb. to fail.]

In a morbid state; putrid; applied to eggs.

Hence, barren, producing nothing.

His brains grow addle

Addle-Pated

AD'DLE-PATED, adjective Having empty brains.

Addled

AD'DLED, adjective Morbid, corrupt, putrid, or barren.

Addoom

ADDOOM', verb transitive [See Doom.] To adjudge.

Addorsed

ADDORS'ED, adjective [Latin ad and dorsum, the back.]

In heraldry, having the backs turned to each other, as beasts.

Address

ADDRESS', verb transitive [This is supposed to be from Latin dirigo.]

1. To prepare; to make suitable dispositions for.

Turnus addressed his men to single fight.

2. To direct words or discourse; to apply to by words; as, to address a discourse to an assembly; to address the judges.

3. To direct in writing; as a letter; or to direct and transmit; as he addressed a letter to the speaker. Sometimes it is used with the reciprocal pronoun, as, he addressed himself to the speaker, instead of, he addressed his discourse. The phrase is faulty; but less so than the following. To such I would address with this most affectionate petition.

Young Turnus to the beauteous maid aldrest.

The latter is admissible in poetry, as an elliptical phrase.

4. To present an address as a letter of thanks or congratulation, a petition, or a testimony of respect; as, the legislature addressed the president.

5. To court or make suit as a lover.

6. In commerce, to consign or entrust to the care of another, as agent or factor; as, the ship was addressed to a merchant in Baltimore.

ADDRESS', noun

1. A speaking to; verbal application; a formal manner of speech; as, when introduced, the president made a short address

2. A written or formal application; a message of respect, congratulation, thanks, petition, etc.; as, an address of thanks; an officer is removable upon the address of both houses of assembly.

3. Manner of speaking to another; as, a man of pleasing address

4. Courtship; more generally in the plural, addresses; as, he makes or pays his addresses to a lady.

5. Skill; dexterity; skillful management; as, the envoy conducted the negotiation with address

6. Direction of a letter, including the name, title, and place of residence of the person for whom it is intended. hence these particulars are denominated, a man's address

Addressed

ADDRESS'ED, participle passive Spoken or applied to; directed; courted; consigned.

Addresser

ADDRESS'ER, noun One who addresses or petitions.

Addressing

ADDRESS'ING, participle present tense Speaking or applying to, directing; courting; consigning.

Adduce

ADDU'CE, verb transitive [Latin adduco, to lead or bring to; ad and duco, to lead. See Duke.]

1. To bring forward, present or offer; as, a witness was adduced to prove the fact.

2. To cite, name or introduce; as, to adduce an authority or an argument.

Adduced

ADDU'CED, participle passive Brought forward; cited; alledged in argument.

Adducent

ADDU'CENT, adjective Bringing forward, or together; a word applied to those muscles of the body which pull one part towards another. [See adductor.]

Adducible

ADDU'CIBLE, adjective That may be adduced.

Adducing

ADDU'CING, participle present tense Bringing forward; citing in argument.

Adduction

ADDUC'TION noun The act of bringing forward.

Adductive

ADDUC'TIVE, adjective That brings forward.

Adductor

ADDUC'TOR, noun [Latin]

A muscle which draws one part of the body towards another; as the adductor oculi, which turns the eye towards the nose; the adductor pollicis manus, which draws the thumb towards the fingers.

Addulce

ADDULCE, verb transitive adduls'. [Latin ad and dulcis, sweet.]

To sweeten. [Not used.]

Adeb

AD'EB, noun An Egyptian weight of 210 okes, each of three rotolos, which is a weight of about two drams less than the English pound. But at Rosetta, the adeb is only 150 okes.

Adel

ATHEL, ADEL or AETHEL, nobel of illustrious birth.

Adelantado

ADELANTA'DO, noun A governor of a province; a lieutenant governor.

Adeling

AD'ELING, noun a title of honor given by our Saxon ancestors to the children of princes, and to young nobles. It is composed of adel, or rather athel, the Teutonic term for noble, illustrious, and ling, young posterity.

Adelite

AD'ELITE, noun adelites or Almogenens, in Spain, were conjurers, who predicted the fortunes of individuals by the flight and singing of birds, and other accidental circumstances.

Ademption

ADEMP'TION, noun [Latin adimo, to take away; of ad and emo, to take.]

In the civil law, the revocation of a grant, donation, or the like.

Adenography

ADENOG'RAPHY, noun [Gr. a gland, and to describe.]

That part of anatomy which treats of the glands.

Adenoid

AD'ENOID, adjective [Gr. a gland, and form.]

In the form of a gland; glandiform; glandulous; applied to the prostate glands.

Adenological

ADENOLOG'ICAL, adjective Pertaining to the doctrine of the glands.

Adenology

ADENOL'OGY, noun [Gr. a gland, and discourse.]

In anatomy, the doctrine of the glands, their nature, and their uses.

Adenos

AD'ENOS, noun a species of cotton, from Aleppo, called also marine cotton.

Adept

ADEPT', noun [Latin adeptus, obtained, from adipiscor.]

One fully skilled or well versed in any art. The term is borrowed from the Alchimists, who applied it to one who pretended to have found the philosopher's stone, or the panacea.

ADEPT', adjective Well skilled; completely versed or acquainted with.

Adeption

ADEP'TION, noun [Latin adeptio.]

An obtaining; acquirement. obsolete

Adequacy

AD'EQUACY, noun [Latin adaequatus, of ad and aquatus, made equal.

The state or quality of being equal to, proportionate, or sufficient; a sufficiency for a particular purpose; as, 'the adequacy of supply to the expenditure.'

Adequate

AD'EQUATE, adjective Equal; proportionate; correspondent to; fully sufficient; as, means adequate to the object; we have no adequate ideas of infinite power.

Adequate ideas, are such as exactly represent their object.

AD'EQUATE, verb transitive To resemble exactly. [Not used.]

Adequately

AD'EQUATELY, adverb In an adequate manner; in exact proportion; with just correspondence, representation, or proportion; in a degree equal to the object.

Adequateness

AD'EQUATENESS, noun The state of being adequate; justness of proportion or representation; sufficiency.

Adequation

ADEQUA'TION, noun Adequateness. [not used.]

Adessenarians

ADESSENA'RIANS, noun [Latin adesse, to be present.]

In church history, a sect who hold the real presence of Christ's body in the eucharist, but not by transubstantiation. They differ however as to this presence; some holding the body of Christ to be in the bread; others, about the bread.

Adfected

ADFECT'ED, adjective In algebra, compounded; consisting of different powers of the unknown quantity.

Adfiliated

ADFIL'IATED, adjective Adopted as a son. [See Affiliate.]

Adfiliation

ADFILIA'TION, noun [Latin ad and filius, a son.]

A Gothic custom, by which the children of a former marriage, are put upon the same footing with those of a succeeding one; still retained in some parts of Germany.

Adhere

ADHE'RE, verb intransitive [Latin adhaereo, ad and haereo, to stick.]

1. To stick to, as glutinous substances, or by natural growth; as, the lungs sometimes adhere to the pleura.

2. To be joined, or held in contact; to cleave to.

3. Figuratively, to hold to, be attached, or remain fixed, either by personal union or conformity of faith, principle, or opinion; as, men adhere to a party, a leader, a church, or creed.

4. To be consistent; to hold together as the parts of a system.

Every thing adheres together.

Adherence

ADHE'RENCE, noun

1. The quality or state of sticking or adhering.

2. Figuratively, a being fixed in attachment; fidelity; steady attachment; as, an adherence to a party or opinions.

Adherency

ADHE'RENCY, noun The same as adherence. In the sense of that which adhers, not legitimate.

Adherent

ADHE'RENT, adjective Sticking, uniting, as glue or wax; united with, as an adherent mode in Locke, that is, a mode accidentally joined with an object, as wetness in a cloth.

ADHE'RENT, noun The person who adheres; one who follows a leader, party or profession; a follower, or partisan; a believer in a particular faith or church.

In the sense of appendage. obsolete

Adherently

ADHE'RENTLY, adverb In an adherent manner.

Adherer

ADHE'RER, noun One that adheres; an adherent.

Adhesion

ADHE'SION, noun adhe'shun. [Latin adhasio.]

1. The act or state of sticking, or being united and attached to; as the adhesion of glue, or of parts united by growth, cement, and the like. adhesion is generally used in a literal; adherence, in a metaphorical sense.

2. Sometimes figuratively, adherence, union or steady attachment; firmness in opinion; as, an adhesion to vice: but in this sense nearly obsolete. The union of bodies by attraction is usually denominated cohesion.

Adhesive

ADHE'SIVE, adjective Sticky; tenacious, as glutinous substances; apt or tending to adhere. Thus gums are adhesive

Adhesively

ADHE'SIVELY, adverb In an adhesive manner.

Adhesiveness

ADHE'SIVENESS, noun The quality of sticking or adhering; stickiness; tenacity.

Adhibit

ADHIB'IT, verb transitive [Latin adhibeo, ad and habeo, to have.]

To use, or apply. [Rarely used.]

Adhibition

ADHIBI'TION, noun Application; use.

Adhil

AD'HIL, noun A star of the sixth magnitude, upon the garment of Andromeda, under the last star in her foot.

Adhortation

ADHORTA'TION, noun [Latin adhortatio.]

Advice. [Seldom used.]

Adhortatory

ADHORT'ATORY, adjective [Latin adhortor, to advise, ad and hortor.]

Advisory; containing counsel or warning.

Adiaphorists

ADIAPH'ORISTS, noun [Gr. indifferent.]

Moderate Lutherans; a name given in the sixteenth century, to certain men that followed Melancthon, who was more pacific than Luther

The adiaphorists held some opinions and ceremonies to be indifferent, which Luther condemned as sinful or heretical.

Adiaphorous

ADIAPH'OROUS, adjective Indifferent; neutral; a name given by Boyle to a spirit distilled from tartar, and some other vegetable substances, neither acid, nor alkaline, or not possessing the distinct character of any chimical body.

Adieu

ADIEU', Adu'.

Farewell; an expression of kind wishes at the parting of friends.

ADIEU', noun A farewell, or commendation to the care of God; as an everlasting adieu

Adipocerate

ADIPOC'ERATE, verb transitive To convert into adipocere.

Adipoceration

ADIPOCERA'TION, noun The act or process of being changed into adipocere.

Adipocere

AD'IPOCERE, noun [Latin adeps, fat, and cera.]

A soft unctuous or waxy substance, of a light brown color, into which the muscular fibers of dead animal bodies are converted, when protected from atmospheric air, and under certain circumstances of temperature and humidity. This substance was first discovered by Fourcroy, in the burying ground of the Church des Innocens, when it was removed in 1787. It is speedily produced, when the body is immersed in running water.

Adipose

AD'IPOSE, adjective [Latin adiposus, from adeps, fat. Heb. fat, gross, AD'IPOUS, stupid.]

Fat. The adipose membrane is the cellular membrane, containing the fat in its cells, and consisting of ductile membranes, connected by a sort of net-work. The adipose vein spreads itself on the coat and fat that covers the kidneys. The adipose ducts are the bags and ducts which contain the fat.

Adit

ADIT, noun [Latin aditus, from adeo, aditum, to approach, ad and eo, to go.]

An entrance or passage; a term in mining, used to denote the opening by which a mine is entered, or by which water and ores are carried away. It is usually made in the side of a hill. The word is sometimes used for aid-shaft, but not with strict propriety.

Adjacency

ADJA'CENCY, noun [Latin adjaceo, to lie contiguous, from ad and jaceo, to lie.]

The state of lying close or contiguous; a bordering upon, or lying next to; as the adjacency of lands or buildings. In the sense of that which is adjacent, as used by Brown, it is not legitimate.

Adjacent

ADJA'CENT, adjective Lying near, close, or contiguous; bordering upon; as, a field adjacent to the highway.

ADJA'CENT, noun That which is next to or contiguous. [Little used.]

Adject

ADJECT' verb transitive [Latin adjicio, of ad and jacio, to throw.]

To add or put, as one thing to another.

Adjection

ADJEC'TION, noun The act of adding, or thing added. [Little used.]

Adjectitious

ADJECTI'TIOUS, adjective Added

Adjective

AD'JECTIVE, noun In grammar, a word used with a noun, to express a quality of the thing named, or something attributed to it, or to limit or define it, or to specify or describe a thing, as distinct from something else. It is called also an attributive or attribute. Thus, in the phrase, a wise ruler, wise is the adjective or attribute, expressing a particular property of ruler.

Adjectively

AD'JECTIVELY, adverb In the manner of an adjective; as, a word is used adjectively

Adjoin

ADJOIN', verb transitive [Latin adjungo, ad and jungo. See Join.]

To join or unite to; to put to, by placing in contact; to unite, by fastening together with a joint, mortise, or knot. But in these transitive senses, it is rarely used. [See Join.]

ADJOIN', verb intransitive To lie or be next to, or in contact; to be contiguous; as, a farm adjoining to the highway. This is the common use of the word, and to is often omitted; as adjoining the highway.

Adjoinant

ADJOIN'ANT, adjective Contiguous to. [Not used.]

Adjoined

ADJOIN'ED, participle passive Joined to; united.

Adjoining

ADJOIN'ING, participle present tense Joining to; adjacent; contiguous.

Adjourn

ADJOURN', verb transitive Adjurn'.

Literally, to put off, or defer to another day; but now used to denote a formal intermission of business, a putting off to any future meeting of the same body, and appropriately used of public bodies or private commissioners, entrusted with business; as, the court adjourned the consideration of the question.

ADJOURN', verb intransitive To suspend business for a time; as, from one day to another, or for a longer period, usually public business, as of legislatures and courts, for repose or refreshment; as, congress adjourned at four o'clock. It is also used for the act of closing the session of a public body; as, the court adjourned without day.

It was moved that parliament should adjourn for six weeks.

Adjourned

ADJOURN'ED, participle passive

1. Put off, delayed, or deferred for a limited time.

2. As an adjective, existing or held by adjournment, as an adjourned session of a court, opposed to stated or regular.

Adjourning

ADJOURN'ING, participle present tense Deferring; suspending for a time; closing a session.

Adjournment

ADJOURN'MENT, noun

1. The act of adjourning; as, in legislatures, the adjournment of one house is not an adjournment of the other.

2. The putting off till another day or time specified, or without day; that is, the closing of a session of a public or official body.

3. The time or interval during which a public body defers business; as, during an adjournment but a suspension of business, between the forming of a house and an adjournment for refreshment, is all a recess. In Great Britain, the close of a session of parliament is called a prorogation; as the close of a parliament is a dissolution. But in Great Britain, as well as in the United States, adjournment is now used for an intermission of business, for any indefinite time; as, an adjournment of parliament for six weeks.

Adjudge

ADJUDGE', verb transitive

To decide, or determine, in the case of a controverted question; to decree by a judicial opinion; used appropriately of courts of law and equity.

The case was adjudged in Hilary term.

The prize was adjudged to the victor; a criminal was adjudged to suffer death.

It has been used in the sense of to judge; as, he adjudged him unworthy of his friendship. But this sense is unusual.

Adjudged

ADJUDG'ED, participle passive Determined by judicial opinion; decreed; sentenced.

Adjudging

ADJUDG'ING, participle present tense Determining by judicial opinion; sentencing.

Adjudgment

ADJUDG'MENT, noun The act of judging; sentenced.

Adjudicate

ADJU'DICATE, verb transitive [Latin adjudico, to give sentence. See Judge.]

To adjudge; to try and determine, as a court. it has the sense of adjudge.

ADJU'DICATE, verb intransitive To try and determine judicially; as, the court adjudicated upon the case.

Adjudicated

ADJU'DICATED, participle passive Adjudged; tried and decided.

Adjudicating

ADJU'DICATING, participle present tense Adjudging; trying and determining.

Adjudication

ADJUDICA'TION, noun

1. The act of adjudging; the act or process of trying and determining judicially; as a ship was taken and sent into port for adjudication

2. A judicial sentence; judgment or decision of a court.

Whose families were parties to some of the former adjudications.

3. In Scots law, an action by which a creditor attaches the heritable estate of his debtor, or his debtor's heir, in payment or security of his debt; or an action by which the holder of an heritable right, laboring under a defect in point of form, may supply that defect.

Adjument

AD'JUMENT, noun [Latin adjumentum.] Help; support. [Not used.]

Adjunct

AD'JUNCT, noun [Latin adjunctus, joined, from adjungo. See Join.]

1. Something added to another, but not essentially a part of it; as, water absorbed by a cloth or spunge is its adjunct Also a person joined to another.

2. In metaphysics, a quality of the body or the mind, whether natural or acquired; as color, in the body; thinking, in the mind.

3. In grammar, words added to illustrate or amplify the force of other words; as, the History of the American revolution. The words in Italics are the adjuncts of History.

4. In music, the word is employed to denominate the relation between the principal mode and the modes of its two fifths.

The adjunct deities, among the Romans, were inferior deities which were added as assistants to the principal gods; as Bellona to Mars; to Vulcan, the Cabiri; to the Good Genius, the Lares; to the Evil, the Lemures.

In the royal academy of sciences at Paris, the adjuncts are certain members attached to the study of particular sciences. They are twelve in number, created in 1716.

Adjunct has been used for a colleague, but rarely.

AD'JUNCT, adjective Added to or united with, as an adjunct professor.

Adjunction

ADJUNC'TION, noun The act of joining; the thing joined.

Adjunctive

ADJUNC'TIVE, adjective Joining; having the quality of joining.

ADJUNC'TIVE, noun That which is joined.

Adjunctively

ADJUNC'TIVELY, adverb In an adjunctive manner.

Adjunctly

ADJUNCT'LY, adverb In connection with; consequently.

Adjuration

ADJURA'TION, noun

1.The act of adjuring; a solemn charging on oath, or under the penalty of a curse.

2.The form of oath.

Adjure

ADJU'RE, verb transitive [Latin adjuro, to swear solemnly, or compel one to swear; from ad and juro, to swear.]

1. To charge, bind or command on oath, or under the penalty of a curse.

Joshua adjured them at that time, saying, cursed be the man before the Lord, that riseth up and buildeth this city of Jericho. Joshua 6:26.

2. To charge earnestly and solemnly, on pain of God's wrath.

I adjure thee by the living God. Matthew 26:63, Acts 19:13.

3. To conjure; to charge, urge or summon with solemnity.

The magistrates adjured by all the bonds of civil duty.

Ye sacred stars, be all of you adjured.

The Commissioners adjured them not to let pass so favorable an opportunity of securing their liberties.

Adjured

ADJU'RED, participle passive Charged on oath, or with a denunciation of God's wrath; solemnly urged.

Adjurer

ADJU'RER, noun One that adjures; one that exacts an oath.

Adjuring

ADJU'RING, participle present tense Charging on oath or on the penalty of a curse; beseeching with solemnity.

Adjust

ADJUST', verb transitive [Latin ad, and justus, just, exact. See Just.]

1. To make exact; to fit; to make correspondent, or conformable; as, to adjust a garment to the body, an event to the prediction, or things to a standard.

2. To put in order; to regulate or reduce to system; as to adjust a scheme; to adjust affairs.

3. To make accurate; to settle or bring to a satisfactory state, so that parties are agreed in the result; as to adjust accounts; the differences are adjusted.

Adjusted

ADJUST'ED, participle passive Made exact or conformable; reduced to a right form or standard settled.

Adjuster

ADJUST'ER, noun A person who adjusts; that which regulates.

Adjusting

ADJUST'ING, participle present tense Reducing to due form; fitting; making exact or correspondent; settling.

Adjustment

ADJUST'MENT, noun The act of adjusting; regulation; a reducing to just form or order; a making fit or conformable; settlement.

Adjutancy

AD'JUTANCY, noun [See Adjutant.] The office of an adjutant; skillful arrangement.

Adjutant

AD'JUTANT, noun [Latin adjutans, aiding; from adjuto, to assist; of ad and juvo, jutum, to help.]

In military affairs, an officer whose business is to assist the Major by receiving and communicating order. Each battalion of foot, and each regiment of horse has an adjutant who receives orders from the adjutant who receives orders from the Brigade Major, to communicate to the Colonel, and to subalterns. He places guards, receives and distributes ammunition, assigns places of rendezvous, etc.

Adjutant-General, in an army, is the chief adjutant

Adjutants General, among the Jesuits, were a select number of fathers, who resided with the general of the order, each of whom had a province or country assigned to his care. Their business was to correspond with that province, by their delegates, emissaries or visitors, and give information of occurrences to the father general.

Adjute

ADJU'TE, verb transitive To help. [Not used.]

Adjutor

ADJU'TOR, noun A helper. [Little used; its compound coadjutor is in common use.]

Adjuvant

ADJU'VANT, adjective Helping; assisting.

Adker

'ADKER, noun

1. One who asks; a petitioner; an inquirer.

2. A water newt.

Adlegation

ADLEGA'TION, noun [Latin ad and legatio, an embassy, from lego, to send. See Legate.]

In the public law of the German Empire, a right claimed by the states, of joining their own ministers with those of the Emperor, in public treaties and negotiations, relating to the common interest of the Empire.

Adlocution

ADLOCU'TION, noun [See Allocation.]

Admeasure

ADMEAS'URE, verb transitive admezh'ur. [ad and measure. See Measure.]

1. To measure or ascertain dimensions, size or capacity; used for measure.

2. To apportion; to assign to each claimant has right; as, to admeasure dower or common of pasture.

Admeasured

ADMEAS'URED, participle passive Measured; apportioned.