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An American Dictionary of the English Language
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Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865
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Ad-mŏn'ish-ment, n. p. 21Admonition. [Rare.] Shak.Ăd'mo-nĭ'tion, n. p. 21Gentle or friendly reproof; counseling against a fault or error; instruction in duties; caution; direction. “Admonition given in a perfunctory manner.” Macaulay. Syn.—Reprehension; reproof…Ăd'mo-nĭ'tion-er, n. p. 21A dispenser of admonitions. Hales.Ad-mŏn'i-tĭve, a. p. 21Containing admonition. Barrow.Ad-mŏn'i-tĭve-ly, adv. p. 21By admonition.Ad-mŏn'i-tor, n. p. 21An admonisher; a monitor. Conscience is at most times a very faithful and prudent admonitor. Shenstone.Ad-mŏn'i-to-ry, a. p. 21Containing admonition; admonishing. Hooker.Ad-môr'ti-zā'tion, n. p. 21(Law.) The reducing of lands or tenements to mort-main. See MORTMAIN.Ad-move', v. t. p. 21To move to; to bring to another. [Rare.] Browne.Ad-năs'cent, a. p. 21Growing to or on something else. Evelyn.Ăd'nāte, a. p. 22(Bot.) Growing close to a stem. “An anther is adnate when fixed by its whole length to the filament.” Gray.Ad'nōm'i-nal, a. p. 22(Gram.) Pertaining to an adnoun; adjectival. Gibbs.Ăd'nōun, n. p. 22(Gram.) An adjective, or attribute. [Rare.]Ad-nū'bi-lā'ted, a. p. 22Clouded; obscured.A-do', n. p. 22Bustle; trouble; labor; difficulty; as, to make a great ado about trifles; to persuade one with much ado. Let’s follow to see the end of this ado. Shak.A·dō'be, n. p. 22An unburnt brick dried in the sun.Ăd'o-lĕs'cence or Ăd'o-lĕs'cen-cy, n. p. 22The state of growing, applied to the young of the human race; youth, or the period of life between puberty and that at which the body acquires its full development, including the years between the…Ăd'o-lēs'cent, a. p. 22Growing; advancing from childhood to manhood. Schools, unless discipline were doubly strong, Detain their adolescent charge too long. Cowper.Ăd'o-nē'an, a. p. 22Pertaining to Adonis; Adonic. “Fair Adonean Venus.” Faber.A-dōn'ic, a. p. 22Of, or relating to, Adonis, famed for his beauty. Adonic verse, a short verse, in which the death of Adonis was bewailed. It consists of a dactyl and spondee.A-dŏn'ic, n. p. 22An Adonic verse. Among the Anglo-Saxons, a poetic verse consisting of one long, two short, and two long syllables. Henry's Brit.A-dō'nis, n. p. 22(Bot.) A genus of plants of the family Ranunculaceæ, containing the bird’s eye, or pheasant’s eye (Adonis autumnalis). Baird.Ăd'o-nīze, v. t. p. 22To make beautiful; to beautify. [Obs.] I employed three good hours at least in adjusting and adonizing myself. Smollett.A-dōors’, adv. p. 22At or by the door. I took him in adoors, A straggling beggar outcast from his shores. Vicar’s Virgil, 1630.A-dŏpt', v. t. p. 22To take into one's family, as son and heir; to take and treat as a child, giving a title to the privileges and rights of a child. 2. To take or receive as one's own; to select and take; as, to adopt…A-dŏpt'ed-ly, adv. p. 22In the manner of something adopted.A-dŏpt’er, n. p. 22One 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…A-dŏp'tion, n. p. 22The act of adopting, or the state of being adopted; the taking and treating of a stranger as one's own child. “Adoption strives with nature.” Shak. 2. Admission to a more intimate relation…A-dŏp'tion-ist, n. p. 22One who maintains that Christ was the Son of God by adoption only. Murdoch.A-dŏp'tioŭs, a. p. 22Adopted.A-dŏpt'ive, a. p. 22Adopting; as, an adoptive father; or adopted; as, an adoptive son.A-dōr'a-bĭl'i-ty, n. p. 22The quality of being adorable; adorableness. [Rare.]A·dōr'a-ble, a. p. 22Deserving to be adored; worthy of divine honors. “The adorable Author of Christianity.” Cheyne. 2. Worthy of the utmost love or respect.A-dōr'a-ble-ness, n. p. 22The quality of being adorable, or worthy of adoration.A-dōr'a-bly, adv. p. 22In an adorable manner.Ăd'o-rā'tion, n. p. 22The act of paying honors 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.…A-dōre', v. t. p. 22To 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. He [James II.] was met at the castle gate…A-dōre', v. t. p. 22To gild or adorn. [Obs.] Congealed little drops which do the morn adore. Spenser.A-dōre'ment, n. p. 22Adoration. [Obs.] Browne.A-dōr'er, n. p. 22One who adores; one who worships or honors as divine; one who admires or loves greatly. “An adorer of truth.” Clarendon. I profess myself her adorer, not her friend. Shak.A-dōr'ing-ly, adv. p. 22With adoration.A-dôrn', v. t. p. 22To 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…A-dôrn', n. p. 22Ornament; decoration. [Obs.] Spencer.A-dôrn', a. p. 22Adorned; decorated. [Obs.] Milton.A-dôrn'er, n. p. 22One who adorns or embellishes.A-dôrn'ing-ly, adv. p. 22By adorning.A-dôrn'ment, n. p. 22An adorning; ornament. Ford.Ad-ŏs′cu-lā′tion, n. p. 22(Bot.) The inserting of one part of a plant into another. Crabb. 2. (Physiol.) An impregnation by mere external contact, without intromission, as in fishes. Dana.A·down', adv. p. 22From a higher to a lower situation; downward; down, to or on the ground. “Thrice did she sink adown.” Spenser.A-down', prep. p. 22Down. Her hair adown her shoulders loosely lay displayed. Prior.Ad′pressed, a. p. 22(Bot.) Pressed close, as leaves to a stem, &c. Gray.Ăd quōd dām'num p. 22(Law.) A writ directing the sheriff to inquire what damage may accrue from the grant of certain liberties or franchises. Brande.A·drēad', n. p. 22Affected by dread. [Obs.]A-drēam', v. t. p. 22To make to dream; — used only in the phrase was adreamed, i. e., I dreamed. [Obs.]Ā-dri-āt'ic, a. p. 22Pertaining to the Gulf of Venice.A·drĭft', adv. p. 22Floating at random. “So on the sea she shall be set adrift.” Dryden.Ad'ro-gā'tion, n. p. 22A 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. Bouvier.A-droit', a. p. 22Possessing or exercising skill or dexterity; dextrous; ingenious; ready in invention or execution. “Equally adroit in the application of the telescope and quadrant.” Horsley. “Adroit at a present…A-droit'ly, adv. p. 22In an adroit manner.A-droit'ness, n. p. 22The quality of being adroit; skill and readiness in the use of the limbs, or of the mental faculties; dexterity. Adroitness was as requisite as courage. Motley.