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Addict

To apply habitually; to devote; to habituate; -- with to.

Addictedness

The quality or state of being addicted; attachment.

Addiction

The state of being addicted; devotion; inclination.

Addis Ababa

The capital city of Ethiopia. Population (2000) = 2,200,186.

Addition

The act of adding two or more things together; -- opposed to subtraction or diminution.

Additive

Proper to be added; positive; -- opposed to subtractive.

Additory

Tending to add; making some addition.

addressed

marked with a destination; -- of mail

Addression

The act of addressing or directing one's course.

Addressograph

a printer that automatically prints addresses on letters for mailing.

Adduce

To bring forward or offer, as an argument, passage, or consideration which bears on a statement or case; to cite; to allege.

Adducent

Bringing together or towards a given point; -- a word applied to those muscles of the body which pull one part towards another. Opposed to abducent.

Adduct

To draw towards a common center or a middle line.

Adduction

The act of adducing or bringing forward.

Adductive

Adducing, or bringing towards or to something.

Adductor

A muscle which draws a limb or part of the body toward the middle line of the body, or closes extended parts of the body; -- opposed to abductor; as, the adductor of the eye, which turns the eye toward the nose.

Adeem

To revoke, as a legacy, grant, etc., or to satisfy it by some other gift.

Adelaster

A provisional name for a plant which has not had its flowers botanically examined, and therefore has not been referred to its proper genus.

Adelocodonic

Applied to sexual zooids of hydroids, that have a saclike form and do not become free; -- opposed to phanerocodonic.

Adelopod

An animal having feet that are not apparent.

Adelphia

A /brotherhood,/ or collection of stamens in a bundle; -- used in composition, as in the class names, Monadelphia, Diadelphia, etc.

Adelphous

Having coalescent or clustered filaments; -- said of stamens; as, adelphous stamens. Usually in composition; as, monadelphous.

Ademption

The revocation or taking away of a grant, donation, legacy, or the like.

Adenography

That part of anatomy which describes the glands.

Adenology

The part of physiology that treats of the glands.

adenoma

A benign tumor of epithelial tissue with a glandlike structure.

adenopathy

Pathological enlargement of a lymph node.

Adenose

Like a gland; full of glands; glandulous; adenous.

Adenotomy

Dissection of, or incision into, a gland or glands.

Adept

Well skilled; completely versed; thoroughly proficient.

Adequacy

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

Adequateness

The quality of being adequate; suitableness; sufficiency; adequacy.

Adequation

The act of equalizing; act or result of making adequate; an equivalent.

Adesmy

The division or defective coherence of an organ that is usually entire.

Adessenarian

One who held the real presence of Christ's body in the eucharist, but not by transubstantiation.

Adhere

To stick fast or cleave, as a glutinous substance does; to become joined or united; as, wax to the finger; the lungs sometimes adhere to the pleura.

Adherency

The state or quality of being adherent; adherence.

Adherent

One who adheres; one who adheres; one who follows a leader, party, or profession; a follower, or partisan; a believer in a particular faith or church.

Adherer

One who adheres; an adherent.

Adhesion

The action of sticking; the state of being attached; intimate union; as, the adhesion of glue, or of parts united by growth, cement, or the like.

Adhesive

Sticky; tenacious, as glutinous substances.

Adhesiveness

The quality of sticking or adhering; stickiness; tenacity of union.

Adhibit

To admit, as a person or thing; to take in.

Adhibition

The act of adhibiting; application; use.

Adhortatory

Containing counsel or warning; hortatory; advisory.

Adiantum

A genus of ferns, the leaves of which shed water; maidenhair. Also, the black maidenhair, a species of spleenwort.

Adiaphorist

One of the German Protestants who, with Melanchthon, held some opinions and ceremonies to be indifferent or nonessential, which Luther condemned as sinful or heretical.

Adiaphoristic

Pertaining to matters indifferent in faith and practice.

Adieu

A farewell; commendation to the care of God at parting.

Adight

To set in order; to array; to attire; to deck, to dress.

Adios

Adieu; farewell; good-by; -- chiefly used among Spanish-speaking people; as, adios amigos (good-bye friends).

Adipic

Pertaining to, or derived from, fatty or oily substances; -- applied to certain acids obtained from fats by the action of nitric acid.

Adipocere

A soft, unctuous, or waxy substance, of a light brown color, into which the fat and muscle tissue of dead bodies sometimes are converted, by long immersion in water or by burial in moist places. It is a result of fatty degeneration.

Adipoceriform

Having the form or appearance of adipocere; as, an adipoceriform tumor.

Adipolytic

Hydrolyzing fats; converting neutral fats into glycerin and free fatty acids, esp. by the action of an enzyme; as, adipolytic action. Contrast saponify, to hydrolyze fat by the action of an alkali.

adipoma

An obsolete term for lipoma.

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