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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.

Adipose

Of or pertaining to animal fat; fatty.

Adipsous

Quenching thirst, as certain fruits.

adit

An entrance or passage. Specifically: The nearly horizontal opening by which a mine is entered, or by which water and ores are carried away; -- called also drift and tunnel.

Aditya

one of 7 to 12 sons of Aditi; gods of celestial light.

Adject

To add or annex; to join.

Adjection

The act or mode of adding; also, the thing added.

Adjectional

Pertaining to adjection; that is, or may be, annexed.

Adjectival

Of or relating to the relating to the adjective; of the nature of an adjective; adjective.

Adjectivally

As, or in the manner of, an adjective; adjectively.

Adjective

To make an adjective of; to form or change into an adjective.

Adjectively

In the manner of an adjective; as, a word used adjectively.

Adjoin

To lie or be next, or in contact; to be contiguous; as, the houses adjoin.

Adjoining

Joining to; contiguous; adjacent; as, an adjoining room.

Adjourn

To suspend business for a time, as from one day to another, or for a longer period, or indefinitely; usually, to suspend public business, as of legislatures and courts, or other convened bodies; as, congress adjourned at four o'clock; the court adjourned without day.

Adjournment

The act of adjourning; the putting off till another day or time specified, or without day.

Adjudge

To award judicially in the case of a controverted question; as, the prize was adjudged to the victor.

Adjudgment

The act of adjudging; judicial decision; adjudication.

Adjudicate

To come to a judicial decision; as, the court adjudicated upon the case.

Adjudication

The act of adjudicating; the act or process of trying and determining judicially.

Adjunct

Something joined or added to another thing, but not essentially a part of it.

Adjunction

The act of joining; the thing joined or added.

Adjunctly

By way of addition or adjunct; in connection with.

Adjuration

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

Adjure

To charge, bind, or command, solemnly, as if under oath, or under the penalty of a curse; to appeal to in the most solemn or impressive manner; to entreat earnestly.

Adjust

To make exact; to fit; to make correspondent or conformable; to bring into proper relations; as, to adjust a garment to the body, or things to a standard.

adjusted

accommodated to certain requirements

Adjuster

One who, or that which, adjusts.

Adjustment

The act of adjusting, or condition of being adjusted; act of bringing into proper relations; regulation.

Adjutory

Serving to help or assist; helping.

Adlegation

A right formerly claimed by the states of the German Empire of joining their own ministers with those of the emperor in public treaties and negotiations to the common interest of the empire.

Adminicular

Supplying help; auxiliary; corroborative; explanatory; as, adminicular evidence.

Administerial

Pertaining to administration, or to the executive part of government.

Administrable

Capable of being administered; as, an administrable law.

Administrant

Executive; acting; managing affairs. One who administers.

Administration

The act of administering; government of public affairs; the service rendered, or duties assumed, in conducting affairs; the conducting of any office or employment; direction; management.

Administrative

Pertaining to administration; administering; executive; as, an administrative body, ability, or energy.

Administrator

One who administers affairs; one who directs, manages, executes, or dispenses, whether in civil, judicial, political, or ecclesiastical affairs; a manager.

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