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Admeasurement

ADMEAS'UREMENT, noun

1. The measuring of dimensions by a rule, as of a ship, cask, and the like.

2. The measure of a thing, or dimensions ascertained.

In these uses the word is equivalent to measurement, mensuration and measure.

3. The adjustment of proportion, or ascertainment of shares, as of dower or pasture held in common. This is done by

writ of admeasurement directed to the sheriff.

Admeasurer

ADMEAS'URER, noun One that admeasures.

Admeasuring

ADMEAS'URING, participle present tense Measuring; apportioning.

Admensuration

ADMENSURA'TION Is equivalent to admeasurement, but not much used. See Mensuration.]

Adminicle

ADMIN'ICLE, noun [Latin adminiculum.] Help; support. [Not used.]

Adminicular

ADMINIC'ULAR, adjective Supplying help; helpful.

Administer

ADMIN'ISTER, verb transitive [Latin administro, of ad and ministro, to serve or manage. See Minister.]

1. To act as minister or chief agent, in managing public affairs, under laws or a constitution of government, as a king, president, or other supreme officer. it is used also of absolute monarchs, who rule not in subordination; but is more strictly applicable to limited monarchs and other supreme executive officers, and to governors, vice-roys, judges and the like, who are under the authority of laws. A king or a president administers the government or laws, when he executes them or carries them into effect. A judge administers the laws, when he applies them to particular cases or persons. In short, to administer is to direct the execution or application of laws.

2. To dispense, as to administer justice or the sacrament.

3. To afford, give or furnish; as, to administer relief, that is, to act as the agent. To administer medicine is to direct and cause it to be taken.

4. To give, as an oath; to cause to swear according to law.

ADMIN'ISTER, verb intransitive

1. To contribute; to bring aid or supplies; to add something; as, a shade administers to our comfort.

2. To perform the office of administrator; as, A administers upon the estate of B.

Administered

ADMIN'ISTERED, participle passive Executed; managed; governed; afforded; given; dispensed.

Administerial

ADMINISTE'RIAL, adjective Pertaining to administration, or to the executive part of government.

Administering

ADMIN'ISTERING, participle present tense Executing; carrying into effect; giving; dispensing.

Administrate

ADMIN'ISTRATE, In the place of administer, has been used, but is not well authorized.

Administration

ADMINISTRA'TION, noun

1. The act of administering; direction; management; government of public affairs; the conducting of any office or employment.

2. The executive part of government, consisting in the exercise of the constitutional and legal powers, the general superintendence of national affairs, and the enforcement of laws.

3. The persons collectively, who are entrusted with the execution of laws, and the superintendence of public affairs; the chief magistrate and his council; or the council alone, as in Great Britain.

4. dispensation; distribution; exhibition; as the administration of justice, of the sacrament, or of grace.

1 Corinthians 12:5. 2 Corinthians 9:12.

5. the management of the estate of an intestate person, under a commission from the proper authority. This management consists in collecting debts, paying debts and legacies, and distributing the property among the heirs.

6. The power, office or commission of an administrator.

Surrogates are authorized to grant administration

It is more usual to say, letters of administration

7. This name is given by the Spaniards, to the staple magazine or warehouse, at Callao, in Peru, where foreign ships must unload.

Administrative

ADMIN'ISTRATIVE, adjective That administers, or by which one administers.

Administrator

ADMINISTRA'TOR, noun

1. a man who, by virtue of a commission from the Ordinary, Surrogate, Court of Probate, or other proper authority, has the charge of the goods and estate of one dying without a will.

2. One who administers, or who directs, manages, distributes, or dispenses laws and rites, either in civil, judicial, political, or ecclesiastical affairs.

3. In Scots law, a tutor, curator or guardian, having the care of one who is incapable of acting for himself. The term is usually applied to a father who has power over his children and their estate, during their minority.

Administratorship

ADMINISTRA'TORSHIP, noun The office of an administrator.

Administratrix

ADMINISTRA'TRIX, noun A female who administers upon the estate of an intestate; also a female who administers government.

Admirable

AD'MIRABLE, adjective [Latin admirabilis.]

To be admired; worthy of admiration; having qualities to excite wonder, with approbation, esteem or reverence; used of persons or things; as, the admirable structure of the body, or of the universe.

Admirableness

AD'MIRABLENESS, noun The quality of being admirable; the power of exciting admiration.

Admirably

AD'MIRABLY, adverb In a manner to excite wonder, mingled with approbation, esteem or veneration.

Admiral

AD'MIRAL, noun [In the Latin of the middle ages. Amira, Amiras, Admiralis, an Emir; Heb. to speak. The terminating syllable of admiral may be from the sea. This word is said to have been introduced in Europe by the Turks, Genoese or Venetains, in the 12th or 13th century.]

A marine commander in chief; the commander of a fleet or navy.

1. The Lord High admiral in Great Britain, is an officer who superintends all maritime affairs, and has the government of the navy. He has also jurisdiction over all maritime causes, and commissions the naval officers.

2. The admiral of the fleet, the highest officer under the admiralty. When he embarks on an expedition, the union flag is displayed at the main top gallant mast head.

3. The Vice admiral an officer next in rank and command to the admiral has command of the second squadron. He carries his flag at the fore top gallant mast head. This name is given also to certain officers who have power to hold courts of vice-admiralty, in various parts of the British dominions.

4. The Rear admiral next in rank to the Vice admiral has command of the third squadron, and carries his flag at the mizen top gallant mast head.

5. The commander of any single fleet, or in general any flag officer.

6. The ship which carries the admiral; also the most considerable ship of a fleet of merchantmen, or of fishing vessels.

7. In zoology, a species of shell-fish. [See Voluta.]

8. Also a butterfly, which lays her eggs on the great stinging nettle, and delights in brambles.

Admiralship

AD'MIRALSHIP, noun The office or power of an admiral. [Little used.]

Admiralty

AD'MIRALTY, noun In Great Britain, the office of Lord High Admiral. This office is discharged by one person, or by Commissioners, called Lords of the Admiralty; usually seven in number.

The admiralty court, or court of admiralty is the supreme court for the trial of maritime causes, held before the Lord High Admiral, or Lords of the admiralty

In general, a court of admiralty is a court for the trial of causes arising on the high seas, as prize causes and the like. In the United States, there is no admiralty court, distinct from others; but the district courts, established in the several states by Congress, are invested with admiralty powers.

Admiration

ADMIRA'TION, noun Wonder mingled with pleasing emotions, as approbation, esteem, love or veneration; a compound emotion excited by something novel, rare, great, or excellent; applied to persons and their works. It often includes a slight degree of surprise. Thus, we view the solar system with admiration

Very near to admiration is the wish to admire.

It has been sometimes used in an ill sense, denoting wonder with disapprobation.

Your boldness I with admiration see. [Dryden]

When I saw her I wondered with great admiration Revelation 17:6.

Admirative

ADMI'RATIVE, noun A note of admiration, thus! [Not used.]

Admire

ADMI'RE, verb transitive [Latin admiror, ad and miror, to wonder; demiror. See Moor and Mar.]

1. To regard with wonder or surprise, mingled with approbation, esteem, reverence or affection.

When he shall come to be glorified in his saints and be admired in all them that love him. 2 Thessalonians 1:10.

This word has been used in an ill sense, but seems now correctly restricted to the sense here given, and implying something great, rare or excellent, in the object admired.

2. To regard with affection; a familiar term for to love greatly.

ADMI'RE, verb intransitive To wonder; to be affected with slight surprise; sometimes with at; as, to admire at his own contrivance.

To admire at sometimes implies disapprobation.

Admired

ADMI'RED, participle passive Regarded with wonder, mingled with pleasurable sensations, as esteem, love or reverence.

Admirer

ADMI'RER, noun One who admires; one who esteems or loves greatly.

Admiring

ADMI'RING, participle present tense Regarding with wonder united with love or esteem.

Admiringly

ADMI'RINGLY, adverb With admiration; in the manner of an admirer.

Admissibility

ADMISSIBIL'ITY, noun The quality of being admissable.

Admissible

ADMISS'IBLE, adjective [See admit.] That may be admitted, allowed or conceded; as, the testimony is admissible

Admission

ADMISS'ION, noun [Latin admissio.]

1. The act or practice of admitting, as the admission of aliens into our country; also, the state of being admitted.

2. Admittancep power or permission to enter; entrance; access; power to approach; as, our laws give to foreigners easy admission to the rights of citizens; the admission of a clerk to a benefice.

3. Allowance; grant of an argument or position not fully proved.

Admit

ADMIT', verb transitive [Latin admitto, from ad and mitto, to send.]

1. To suffer to enter; to grant entrance; whether into a place, or an office, or into the mind, or consideration; as to admit a student into college; to admit a serious thought into the mind.

2. To give right of entrance; as, a ticket admits one into a play house.

3. To allow; to receive as true; as, the argument or fact is admitted.

4. To permit, grant or allow, or to be capable of; as, the words do not admit of such a construction. In this sense, of may be used after the verb, or omitted.

Admittable

ADMIT'TABLE, adjective That may be admitted or allowed.

Admittance

ADMIT'TANCE, noun

1. The act of admitting; allowance. More usually,

2. Permission to enter; the power or right of entrance; and hence, actual entrance; as, he gained admittance into the church.

3. Concession; admission; allowance; as the admittance of an argument. [Not used.]

4. Shakespeare uses the word for the custom or prerogative of being admitted; 'Sir John, you are a gentleman of excellent breeding, of great admittance': but the license is unwarrantable.

Admitted

ADMIT'TED, participle passive Permitted to enter or approach; allowed; granted; conceded.

Admitter

ADMIT'TER, noun He that admits.

Admitting

ADMIT'TING, participle present tense Permitting to enter or approach; allowing; conceding.

Admix

ADMIX', verb transitive To mingle with something else. [See Mix.]

Admixtion

ADMIX'TION, noun admixchun, [Latin admixtio, or admistio; of ad and misceo, to mix. See Mix.]

A mingling of bodies; a union by mixing different substances together. It differs from composition or chimical combination; for admixtion does not alter the nature of the substances mixed, but merely blends them together; whereas in composition, the particles unite by affinity, lose their former properties, and form new compounds, with different properties.

Admixture

ADMIX'TURE, noun [From admix.]

The substance mingled with another; sometimes the act of mixture. We say, an admixture of sulphur with alum, or the admixture of different bodies.

Admonish

ADMON'ISH, verb transitive [Latin admoneo, ad and moneo, to teach, warn, admonish ]

1. To warn or notify of a fault; to reprove with mildness.

Count him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother. 2 Thessalonians 3:15.

2. To counsel against wrong practices; to caution or advise.

Admonish one another in psalms and hymns. Colossians 3:16.

3. To instruct or direct.

Moses was admonished of God, when he was about to make the tabernacle. Hebrews 8:5.

4. In ecclesiastical affairs, to reprove a member of the church for a fault, either publicly or privately; the first step of church discipline. It is followed by of, or against; as, to admonish of a fault committed, or against committing a fault. It has a like use in colleges.

Admonished

ADMON'ISHED, participle passive Reproved; advised; warned; instructed.

Admonisher

ADMON'ISHER, noun One who reproves or counsels.

Admonishing

ADMON'ISHING, participle present tense Reproving; warning; counseling; directing.

Admonishment

ADMON'ISHMENT, noun Admonition.

Admonition

ADMONI'TION, noun Gentle reproof; counseling against a fault; instruction in duties; caution; direction. Titus 3:10. 1 Corinthians 10:11. In church discipline, public or private reproof to reclaim an offender; a step preliminary to excommunication.

Admonitioner

ADMONI'TIONER, noun A dispenser of admonitions.

Admonitive

ADMON'ITIVE, adjective Containing admonition.

Admonitor

ADMON'ITOR, noun An admonisher, a monitor.

Admonitory

ADMON'ITORY, adjective Containing admonition; that admonishes.

Admortization

ADMORTIZA'TION, noun The reducing of lands or tenements to mortmain. [See Mortmain.]

Admove

ADMOVE', verb transitive [Latin admoveo.]

To move to; to bring one thing to another. [Little used.]

Adnascent

ADNAS'CENT, adjective [Latin ad and nascens, growing.]

Adnata

ADNA'TA, noun [Latin ad and natus, grown from nascor, to grow.]

1. In anatomy, one of the coats of the eye, which is also called albuginea, and is sometimes confounded with the conjunctive. It lies between the sclerotica, and conjunctiva.

2. Such parts of animal or vegetable bodies, as are usual and natural, as the hair, wool, horns; or accidental, as fungus, mistletoe, and excrescences.

3. Offsets of plants, germinating under ground as from the lily, narcissus, and hyacinth.

Adnate

AD'NATE, adjective [Latin ad and natus, grown.]

In botany, pressing close to the stem, or growing to it.

Adnoun

AD'NOUN, noun [ad and noun.]

In grammar, an adjective, or attribute. [Little used.]

Ado

ADO', noun

Bustle; trouble; labor; difficulty; as, to make a great ado about trifles; to persuade one with much ado

Adolescence

ADOLES'CENCE, noun [Latin adolescens, growing, of ad and olesco, to grow, from oleo. Heb. to ascend.]

The state of growing, applied to the young of the human race; youth, or the period of life between childhood and manhood.

Adolescent

ADOLES'CENT, adjective Growing; advancing from childhood to manhood.

Adonean

ADONE'AN, adjective Pertaining to Adonis.

Fair adonean Venus.

Adonia

ADO'NIA, noun Festivals celebrated anciently in honor of Adonis, by females, who spent two days in lamentations and infamous pleasures.

Adonic

ADO'NIC, adjective adonic Verse, a short verse, in which the death of Adonis was bewailed. It consists of a dactyl and spondee or trochee.

ADO'NIC, noun An adonic verse.

Adonis

ADO'NIS, noun In mythology, the favorite of Venus, said to be the son of Cinyras, king of Cyprus. He was fond of hunting, and received a mortal wound from the tusk of a wild boar. Venus lamented his death, and changed him into the flower, anemony.

ADO'NIS, in botany, bird's eye or pheasant's eye.

Adonists

ADO'NISTS, noun [Heb. Lord, a scriptural title of the Supreme Being.]

Among critics, a sect or party who maintain that the Hebrew points ordinarily annexed to the consonants of the word Jehovah, are not the natural points belonging to that word, and that they do not express the true pronunciation of it; but that they are vowel points belonging to the words, Adonai and Elohim, applied to the ineffable name Jehovah, which the Jews were forbid to utter, and the true pronunciation of which was lost; they were therefore always to pronounce the word Adonai, instead of Jehovah.

Adopt

ADOPT', verb transitive [Latin adopto, of ad and opto, to desire or choose. See Option.]

1. To take a stranger into one's family, as son and heir; to take one who is not a child, and treat him as one, giving him a title to the privileges and rights of a child.

2. In a spiritual sense, to receive the sinful children of men into the invisible church, and into God's favor and protection, by which they become heirs of salvation by Christ.

3. To take or receive as one's own, that which is not naturally so; as, to adopt the opinions of another; or to receive that which is new; as, to adopt a particular mode of husbandry.

4. To select and take; as, which mode will you adopt?

Adopted

ADOPT'ED, participle passive Taken as one's own; received as son and heir; selected for use.

Adoptedly

ADOPT'EDLY, adverb In the manner of something adopted.

Adopter

ADOPT'ER, noun

1. One who adopts.

2. In chimistry, a large round receiver, with two necks, diametrically 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, or to increase the length of the neck of a retort.

Adopting

ADOPT'ING, participle present tense Taking a stranger as a son; taking as one's own.

Adoption

ADOP'TION, noun [Latin adoptio.]

1. The act of adopting, or the state of being adopted; the taking and treating of a stranger as one's own child.

2. The receiving as one's own, what is new or not natural.

3. God's taking the sinful children of men into his favor and protection.

Adoption of arms, an ancient ceremony of presenting arms to one for his merit or valor, which laid the person under an obligation to defend the giver.

Adoption by baptism is the spiritual affinity which is contracted by god-fathers and god-children, in the ceremony of baptism. It was introduced into the Greek church, and afterwards among the ancient Franks. This affinity was supposed to entitle the god-child to a share of the god-father's estate.

Adoption by hair was performed by cutting off the hair of a person and giving it to the adoptive father. Thus Pope John VIII adopted Boson, king of Arles.

Adoption by matrimony is the taking the children of a wife or husband, by a former marriage, into the condition of natural children. This is a practice peculiar to the Germans; but is not so properly adoption as adfiliation.

Adoption by testament is the appointing of a person to be heir, by will, or condition of his taking the name, arms, etc. of the adopter.

In Europe, adoption is used for many kinds of admission to a more intimate relation, and is nearly equivalent to reception; as, the admission of persons into hospitals, or monasteries, or of one society into another.

Adoptive

ADOPT'IVE, adjective [Latin adoptivus.]

That adopts, as an adoptive father; or that is adopted, as an adoptive son.

ADOPT'IVE, noun A person or thing adopted.

Adorable

ADO'RABLE, adjective That ought to be adored; worth of divine honors. In popular use, worthy of the utmost love or respect.

Adorableness

ADO'RABLENESS, noun The quality of being adorable, or worthy of adoration.

Adorably

ADO'RABLY, adverb In a manner worthy of adoration.

Adoration

ADORA'TION, noun

1. The act of paying honors to a divine being; the worship paid to God; the act of addressing as a God.

Adoration consists in external homage, accompanied with the highest reverence. It is used for the act of praying, or preferring requests or thanksgiving, to the Supreme Being.

2. Homage paid to one in high esteem; profound reverence.

Adoration, among the Jews, as performed by bowing, kneeling and prostration. Among the Romans, the devotee, with his head uncovered, applied his right hand to his lips, bowing and turning himself from left to right. The Persians fell on the face, striking the forehead against the earth, and kissing the ground. The adoration paid to the Grecian and Roman emperors, consisted in bowing and kneeling at the feet of the prince, laying hold of his robe, then withdrawing the hand and clapping it to the lips. In modern times, adoration is paid to the pope by kissing his feet, and to princes, by kneeling and kissing the hand. This word was used by the Romans for acclamation or great applause, given to public performer; and the election of a pope is sometimes by adoration that is, by sudden acclamation without scrutiny.

Adore

ADO'RE, verb transitive [Latin adoro. In Heb. to honor, reverence or glorify to adorn; to be magnificent or glorious, to magnify, to glorify. This word is usually referred to the Latin ad orare, to carry to one's mouth; ad and os, oris; as, in order to kiss one's hand, the hand is carried to one's mouth. See Calmet, ad verbum, who cites, in confirmation of this opinion, the ancient practice of kissing the hand. See Job 31:27. 1 Kings 19:18. Psalms 2:12. Genesis 45:15 . Ainsworth supposes the word to be a compound of ad and oro, to pray; and if the word is compound, as I suspect, this opinion is most probably correct.]

1. To worship with profound reverence; to address with exalted thoughts, by prayer and thanksgiving; to pay divine honors to; to honor as a god or as divine.

2. To love in the highest degree; to regard with the utmost esteem, affection and respect; as, the people adore their prince.

Adored

ADO'RED, participle passive Worshipped as divine; highly reverenced; greatly beloved.

Adorer

ADO'RER, noun One who worships, or honors as divine; in popular language, an admiring lover.

Adoring

ADO'RING, participle present tense or adjective Honoring or addressing as divine; regarding with great love or reverence.

Adorn

ADORN', verb transitive [Latin adorno, ad and orno, to deck, or beautify, to dress, set off, extol, furnish.

1. To deck or decorate; to make beautiful; to add to beauty by dress; to deck with external ornaments.

A bride adorneth, herself with jewels. Isaiah 61:10.

To set off to advantage; to add ornaments to; to embellish by any thing external or adventitious; as, to adorn a speech by appropriate action, sentiments with elegance of language, or a gallery with pictures.

3. To make pleasing, or more pleasing; as, great abilities adorned by virtue or affability.

4. To display the beauty or excellence of; as, to adorn the doctrine of God. Titus 2:10.

ADORN', noun Ornament. obsolete

ADORN', adjective Adorned; decorated. obsolete

Adorned

ADORN'ED, participle passive Decked; decorated; embellished.

Adorning

ADORN'ING, participle present tense Ornamenting; decorating; displaying beauty.

ADORN'ING, noun Ornament; decoration. 1 Peter 3:3.

Adosculation

ADOSCULA'TION, noun [Latin ad and osculatio, a kissing, from osculum, a kiss, or mouth.]

The impregnation of plants by the falling of the farina on the pistils.

Adosculation is also defined to be the inserting of one part of a plant into another.

Adossed

ADOS'SED, adjective

In heraldry, denoting two figures or bearings place back to back.

Adown

ADOWN', preposition [a and down.] From a higher to a lower situation; downwards; implying descent.

ADOWN', adverb Down; on the ground; at the bottom.

Adread

ADREAD', adjective Adred'. [See Dread.] Affected by dread. obsolete

Adriatic

ADRIAT'IC, adjective [Latin Aldria, or Hadria, the gulf of Venice.]

Pertaining to the Gulf, called, from Venice, the Venetian Gulf.

ADRIAT'IC, noun The Venetian Gulf; a Gulf that washes the eastern side of Italy.

Adrift

ADRIFT', adjective or adverb [See Drive. adrift is the participle of the verb.]

Literally, driven; floating; floating at random; impelled or moving without direction. As an adjective, it always follows its noun; as, the boat was adrift

Adrogation

ADROGA'TION, noun [Latin ad and rogo, to ask. See Interrogate and Rogation.]

A species of adoption in ancient Rome, by which a person, capable of choosing for himself, was admitted into the relation of a son. So called from the questions put to the parties.

Adroit

ADROIT', [Latin directus, dirigo. See Right.]

Dextrous; skillful; active in the use of the hands, and figuratively, in the exercise of the mental faculties; ingenious; ready in invention or execution.

Adroitly

ADROIT'LY, adverb With dexterity; in a ready skillful manner.

Adroitness

ADROIT'NESS, noun Dexterity; readiness in the use of the limbs, or of the mental faculties.

Adry

ADRY', adjective

Thirsty, in want of drink. [This adjective always follows the noun.]

Adscititious

ADSCITI'TIOUS, adjective [Latin ascititius, from adscisco, ascisco, to add or join.]

Added; taken as supplemental; additional; not requisite.

ADSCITI'TIOUS, noun [Latin adstrictio, astrictio, of ad and stringo, to strain or bind fast. See Strict.]

A binding fast. Among physicians, the rigidity of a part of the body, occasioning a retention of usual evacuations; costiveness; a closeness of the emunctories; also the styptic effects of medicines.

Adstrictory

ADSTRIC'TORY, ADSTRING'ENT. [See Astringent.]

Adstringent

ADSTRIC'TORY, ADSTRING'ENT. [See Astringent.]

Adularia

ADULA'RIA, noun [From Adula, the summit of a Swiss mountain.]

A mineral deemed the most perfect variety of felspar; its color white, or with a tinge of green, yellow, or red.

Adulation

ADULA'TION, noun [Latin adulatio.]

Servile flattery; praise in excess, or beyond what is merited; high compliment.

Adulator

AD'ULATOR, noun A flatterer; one who offers praise servilely.

Adulatory

AD'ULATORY, adjective Flattering; containing excessive praise or compliments; servilely praising; as, an adulatory address.

Adulatress

AD'ULATRESS, noun A female that flatters with servility.

Adult

ADULT', noun [Latin adultus, grown to maturity, from oleo, to grow; Heb. to ascend.]

Having arrived at mature years, or to full size and strength; as an adult person or plant.

ADULT', noun A person grown to full size and strength, or to the years of manhood. It is also applied to full grown plants. among civilians, a person between fourteen and twenty-five years of age.

Adulterant

ADUL'TERANT, noun The person or thing that adulterates.

Adulterate

ADUL'TERATE, verb transitive [Latin adultero, from adulter, mixed, or an adulterer; ad and alter, other.]

To corrupt, debase, or make impure by an admixture of baser materials; as, to adulterate liquors, or the coin of a country.

ADUL'TERATE, verb intransitive To commit adultery. obsolete

ADUL'TERATE, adjective Tainted with adultery; debased by foreign mixture.

Adulterated

ADUL'TERATED, participle passive Corrupted; debased by a mixture with something of less value.

Adulterateness

ADUL'TERATENESS, noun The quality or state of being debased or counterfeit.

Adulterating

ADUL'TERATING, participle present tense Debasing; corrupting; counterfeiting.

Adulteration

ADULTERA'TION, noun The act of adulterating, or the state of being adulterated, corrupted or debased by foreign mixture.

The adulteration of liquors, of drugs, and even of bread and beer, is common, but a scandalous crime.

Adulterer

ADUL'TERER, noun [Latin adulter.]

1. A man guilty of adultery; a man who has sexual commerce with any married woman, except his wife. [See Adultery.]

2. In scripture, an idolator. Ezekiel 23:37.

3. An apostate from the true faith, or one who violates his covenant engagements; a very wicked person. Jeremiah 9:2 and 23.

4. One devoted to earthly things. James 4:4.

Adulteress

ADUL'TERESS, noun A married woman guilty of incontinence.

Adulterine

ADUL'TERINE, adjective Proceeding from adulterous commerce; spurious.

ADUL'TERINE, noun In the civil law, a child issuing from an adulterous connection.

Adulterous

ADUL'TEROUS, adjective

1. Guilty of adultery; pertaining to adultery.

2. In scripture, idolatrous, very wicked. Matthew 12:39 and 16. Mark 8:38.

Adultery

ADUL'TERY, noun [Latin adulterium. See Adulterate.]

1. Violation of the marriage bed; a crime, or a civil injury, which introduces, or may introduce, into a family, a spurious offspring.

By the laws of Connecticut, the sexual intercourse of any man, with a married woman, is the crime of adultery in both:such intercourse of a married man, with an unmarried woman, is fornication in both, and adultery of the man, within the meaning of the law respecting divorce; but not a felonious adultery in either, or the crime of adultery at common law, or by statute. This latter offense is, in England, proceeded with only in the ecclesiastical courts.

In common usage, adultery means the unfaithfulness of any married person to the marriage bed. In England, Parliament grant absolute divorces for infidelity to the marriage bed in either party; and the spiritual courts divorce a mensa et thoro.

2. In a scriptural sense, all manner of lewdness or unchastity, as in the seventh commandment.

3. In scripture, idolatry, or apostasy from the true God. Jeremiah 3:8.

4. In old laws, the fine and penalty imposed for the offense of adultery

5. In ecclesiastical affairs, the intrusion of a person into a bishopric, during the life of the bishop.

6. Among ancient naturalists, the grafting of trees was called adultery being considered as an unnatural union.

Adultness

ADULT'NESS, noun The state of being adult.

Adumbrant

ADUM'BRANT, adjective [See Adumbrate.] Giving a faint shadow, or slight resemblance.

Adumbrate

ADUM'BRATE, verb transitive [Latin adumbro, to shade, from umbra, a shade.]

To give a faint shadow, or slight likeness; to exhibit a faint resemblance, like a shadow.

Adumbration

ADUMBRA'TION, noun

1. The act of making a shadow or faint resemblance.

2. A faint sketch; an imperfect representation of a thing.

3. In heraldry, the shadow only of a figure, outlined, and painted of a color darker than the field.

Adunation

ADUNA'TION, noun [Latin ad and unus, unio, .]

The state of being united; union. [Not used.]

Aduncity

ADUN'CITY, noun [Latin aduncitas, hookedness, of ad and uncus, a hook.]

Hookedness; a bending in form of a hook.

Aduncous

ADUN'COUS, adjective [Latin aduncus.]

Hooked; bent or made in the form of a hook.

Adunque

ADUNQUE, adjective Adunk'. Hooked. [Not used.]

Adure

ADU'RE, verb transitive [Latin aduro, ad and uro, to burn.]

To burn up. [Not used.]

Adust

ADUST', adjective [Latin adustus, burnt, the participle of aduro, to burn.]

Burnt; scorched; become dry by heat; hot and fiery.

Adusted

ADUST'ED, adjective Become hot and dry; burnt; scorched.

Adustion

ADUS'TION, noun The act of burning, scorching, or heating to dryness; a state of being thus heated or dried.

Advance

ADV'ANCE, verb transitive adv'ans. [Heb. surface, face; whence.]

1. To bring forward; to move further in front. Hence,

2. To promote; to raise to a higher rank; as, to advance one from the bar to the bench.

3. To improve or make better, which is considered as a progression or moving forward; as, to advance one's true interests.

4. To forward; to accelerate growth; as, to advance the growth of plants.

5. To offer or propose; to bring to view or notice; as, to advance an opinion or an argument.

6. In commerce, to supply beforehand; to furnish on credit, or before goods are delivered, or work done; or to furnish as a part of a stock or fund; as, to advance money on loan or contract, or towards a purchase or establishment.

7. To furnish for others; to supply or pay for others, in expectation of reimbursement.

They advanced the money out of their own funds, and took the sheriff's deeds in their own name.

8. To raise; to enhance; as, to advance the price of goods.

ADV'ANCE, verb intransitive

1. To move or go forward; to proceed; as, the troops advanced.

2. To improve, or make progress; to grow better, greater, wiser or older; as, to advance in knowledge, in stature, in wisdom, or in years.

3. To rise in rank, office, or consequence; to be preferred, or promoted; as, to advance in political standing.

ADV'ANCE, noun

1. A moving forward, or towards the front.

2. Gradual progression; improvement; as, an advance in religion or knowledge.

3. Advancement; promotion; preferment; as, an advance in rank or office.

4. First hint by way of invitation; first step towards an agreement; as, A made an advance towards a reconciliation with B. In this sense, it is very frequently used in the plural.

The amours of an empress require the plainest advances.

5. In trade, additional price; profit; as, an advance on the prime cost of goods.

6. A giving beforehand; a furnishing of something, on contract, before an equivalent is received, as money or goods, towards a capital or stock, or on loan; or the money or goods thus furnished; as, A made large advances to B.

7. A furnishing of money or goods for others, in expectation of reimbursement; or the property so furnished.

I shall, with great pleasure, make the necessary advances.

The account was made up with intent to show what advances had been made.

In advance in front; before; also beforehand; before an equivalent is received, or when one partner in trade has furnished more than his proportion; as, A is in advance to B a thousand dollars or pounds.

Advanced

ADV'ANCED, participle passive Moved forward; promoted; improved; furnished beforehand; situated in front, or before the rest; also old, having reached the decline of life; as, advanced in years; an advanced age.

Advancement

ADV'ANCEMENT, noun

1. The act of moving forward or proceeding.

2. The state of being advanced; preferment; promotion, in rank or excellence; the act of promoting.

3. Settlement on a wife, or jointure.

4. Provision made by a parent for a child, by gift of property, during his, the parent's life, to which the child would be entitled as heir, after his parent's death.

Advancer

ADV'ANCER, noun One who advances; a promoter.

Among sportsmen, a start or branch of a buck's attire, between the back antler and the palm.

Advancing

ADV'ANCING, participle present tense Moving forward; proceeding; promoting; raising to higher rank or excellence; improving; supplying beforehand, as on loan, or as stock in trade.

Advancive

ADV'ANCIVE, adjective Tending to advance, or promote.

Advantage

ADV'ANTAGE, noun

1. Any state, condition, or circumstance, favorable to success, prosperity, interest, or reputation.

The enemy had the advantage of elevated ground.

2. Benefit; gain; profit.

What advantage will it be to thee? Job 35:3.

There exists, in the economy and course of nature, an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness; between duty and advantage

3. Means to an end; opportunity; convenience for obtaining benefit; as, student enjoy great advantages for improvement.

The General took advantage of his enemy's negligence.

4. Favorable state or circumstances; as, jewels set to advantage

5. Superiority, or prevalence over; with of or over.

Lest Satan should get an advantage of us, (or over us.) 2 Corinthians 2:11.

6. Superiority, or that which gives it; as, the advantage of a good constitution.

7. Interest; increase; overplus.

And with advantage means to pay thy love. obsolete

8. Additional circumstance to give preponderation.

ADV'ANTAGE, verb transitive

1. To benefit; as to yield profit or gain.

What is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away? Luke 9:25.

2. To promote; to advance the interest of.

Advantage-Ground

ADV'ANTAGE-GROUND, noun Ground that gives advantage or superiority; a state that gives superior advantages for annoyance or resistance.

Advantageable

ADV'ANTAGEABLE, adjective Profitable; convenient; gainful. [Little used.]

Advantaged

ADV'ANTAGED, participle passive Benefitted; promoted.

Advantageous

ADVANTA'GEOUS, adjective Being of advantage; furnishing convenience, or opportunity to gain benefit; gainful; profitable; useful; beneficial; as, an advantageous position of the troops; trade is advantageous to a nation.

Advantageously

ADVANTA'GEOUSLY, adverb In an advantageous manner; profitably; usefully; conveniently.

Advantageousness

ADVANTA'GEOUSNESS, noun The quality or state of being advantageous; profitableness; usefulness; convenience.

Advantaging

ADV'ANTAGING, participle present tense Profiting; benefiting.

Advene

ADVE'NE, verb intransitive [Latin advenio, to come to, ad and venio.]

To accede, or come to; to be added to, or become a part of, though not essential. [Little used.]

Advenient

ADVE'NIENT, adjective Advening; coming from outward causes.

Advent

AD'VENT, noun [Latin adventus, from advenio, of ad and venio, to come. See Find.]

A coming; appropriately the coming of our Savior, and in the calendar, it includes four sabbaths before Christmas, beginning of St. Andrew's Day, or on the sabbath next before or after it. It is intended as a season of devotion, with reference to the coming of Christ in the flesh, and his second coming to judge the world.

Adventine

ADVENT'INE, adjective Adventitious. [Not used.]

Adventitious

ADVENTI'TIOUS, adjective [Latin adventitius, from advenio. See Advent.]

Added extrinsically; accidental; not essentially inherent; casual; foreign.

Diseases of continuance get an adventitious strength from custom.

Adventitiously

ADVENTI'TIOUSLY, adverb Accidentally.

Adventive

ADVENT'IVE, adjective Accidental; adventitious. [Little used.]

ADVENT'IVE, noun The thing or person that comes from without. [Little used.]

Adventual

ADVENT'UAL, adjective Relating to the season of advent.

Adventure

ADVENT'URE, noun [See Advent.]

1. Hazard; risk; chance; that of which one has no direction; as, at all adventures, that is, at all hazards. [See Venture.]

2. An enterprize of hazard; a bold undertaking, in which hazards are to be encountered, and the issue is staked upon unforeseen events.

3. That which is put to hazard; a sense in popular use with seamen, and usually pronounced venture. Something which a seaman is permitted to carry abroad, with a view to sell for profit.

A bill of adventure is a writing signed by a person, who takes goods on board of his ship, wholly at the risk of the owner.

ADVENT'URE, verb transitive To risk, or hazard; to put in the power of unforeseen events; as, to adventure one's life. [See Venture.]

ADVENTURE, verb intransitive To dare; to try the chance; as, to adventure on 'the tempestuous sea of liberty.'

Adventured

ADVENT'URED, participle passive Put to hazard; ventured; risked.

Adventurer

ADVENT'URER, noun

1. One who hazards, or puts something at risk, as merchant-adventurers.

2. One who seeks occasions of chance, or attempts bold, novel, or extraordinary enterprizes.

Adventuresome

ADVENT'URESOME, adjective Bold; daring; incurring hazard. [See Venturesome.]

Adventuresomeness

ADVENT'URESOMENESS, noun The quality of being bold and venturesome.

Adventuring

ADVENT'URING, participle present tense Putting to risk; hazarding.

Adventurous

ADVENT'UROUS, adjective

1. Inclined or willing to incur hazard; bold to encounter danger; daring; courageous; enterprizing; applied to persons.

2. Full of hazard; attended with risk; exposing to danger; requiring courage' applied to things; as, an adventurous undertaking.

And followed freedom on the adventurous tide.

Adventurously

ADVENT'UROUSLY, adverb Boldly; daringly; in a manner to incur hazard.

Adventurousness

ADVENT'UROUSNESS, noun The act or quality of being adventurous.

Adverb

AD'VERB, noun [Latin adverbium, of ad and verbum, to a verb.]

In grammar, a word used to modify the sense of a verb, participle, adjective or attribute, and usually placed near it; as, he writes well; paper extremely white. This part of speech might be more significantly named a modifier, as its use is to modify, that is, to vary or qualify the sense of another word, by enlarging or restraining it, or by expressing form, quality or manner, which the word itself does not express. The term adverb denoting position merely, is often improper.

Adverbial

ADVERB'IAL, adjective Pertaining to an adverb.

Adverbially

ADVERB'IALLY, adverb In the manner of an adverb.

Adversaria

ADVERSA'RIA, noun [Latin from adversus. See Adverse.]

Among the ancients, a book of accounts, so named from the placing of debt and credit in opposition to each other. A commonplace book.

Adversary

AD'VERSARY, noun [See Adverse.]

1. An enemy or foe; one who has enmity at heart.

The Lord shall take vengeance on his adversaries. Nahum 1.

In scripture, Satan is called THE adversary by way of eminence. 1 Peter 5:8.

2. An opponent or antagonist, as in a suit at law, or in single combat; an opposing litigant.

AD'VERSARY, adjective Opposed; opposite to; adverse. In law, having an opposing party, as an adversary suit; in distinction from an application, in law or equity, to which no opposition is made.

Adversative

ADVERS'ATIVE, adjective Noting some difference, contrariety, or opposition; as, John is an honest man, but a fanatic. Here but is called an adversative conjunction. This denomination however is not always correct; for but does not always denote opposition, but something additional.

ADVERS'ATIVE, noun A word denoting contrariety or opposition.

Adverse

AD'VERSE, adjective [Latin adversus, opposite; of ad and versus, turned; from verto, to turn. See Advert. This word was formerly accented, by some authors, on the last syllable; but the accent is now settled on the first.]

1. Opposite; opposing; acting in a contrary direction; conflicting; counteracting; as, adverse winds; an adverse party.

2. Figuratively, opposing desire; contrary to the wishes, or to supposed good; hence, unfortunate; calamitous; afflictive; pernicious, unprosperous; as, adverse fate or circumstances.

ADVERSE, verb transitive advers'. To oppose. [Not used.]

Adversely

AD'VERSELY, adverb In an adverse manner; oppositely; unfortunately; unprosperously; in a manner contrary to desire or success.

Adverseness

AD'VERSENESS, noun Opposition; unprosperousness.