To convert into adipocere.
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The act or process of changing into 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.
Having the form or appearance of adipocere; as, an adipoceriform tumor.
Like adipocere.
Producing fat.
The digestion of fats.
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.
An obsolete term for lipoma.
Of or pertaining to animal fat; fatty.
The state of being fat; fatness.
Fatty; adipose.
Absence of thirst.
Quenching thirst, as certain fruits.
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.
one of 7 to 12 sons of Aditi; gods of celestial light.
That which is adjacent.
So as to be adjacent.
To add or annex; to join.
The act or mode of adding; also, the thing added.
Pertaining to adjection; that is, or may be, annexed.
Of or relating to the relating to the adjective; of the nature of an adjective; adjective.
As, or in the manner of, an adjective; adjectively.
To make an adjective of; to form or change into an adjective.
In the manner of an adjective; as, a word used adjectively.
To lie or be next, or in contact; to be contiguous; as, the houses adjoin.
Contiguous.
Joining to; contiguous; adjacent; as, an adjoining room.
An adjunct; a helper.
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; postponement.
The act of adjourning; the putting off till another day or time specified, or without day.
To award judicially in the case of a controverted question; as, the prize was adjudged to the victor.
One who adjudges.
The act of adjudging; judicial decision; adjudication.
To come to a judicial decision; as, the court adjudicated upon the case.
The act of adjudicating; the act or process of trying and determining judicially.
Adjudicating.
One who adjudicates.
Adjudication.
To yoke to.
Help; support; also, a helper.
Something joined or added to another thing, but not essentially a part of it.
The act of joining; the thing joined or added.
One who, or that which, is joined.
In an adjunctive manner.
By way of addition or adjunct; in connection with.
The act of adjuring; a solemn charging on oath, or under the penalty of a curse; an earnest appeal.
Containing an adjuration.
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.
One who adjures.
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.
Capable of being adjusted.
Adjustment.
accommodated to certain requirements
One who, or that which, adjusts.
Tending to adjust.
The act of adjusting, or condition of being adjusted; act of bringing into proper relations; regulation.
Same as Ajutage.
The office of an adjutant.
A helper; an assistant.
A corruption of Agitator.
To add.
A helper or assistant.
Serving to help or assist; helping.
A female helper or assistant.
An assistant.
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.
See Allocution.
To write in the margin.
Near to the maxilla or jawbone.
To measure.
One who admeasures.
Same as Admeasurement.
Help or support; an auxiliary.
Supplying help; auxiliary; corroborative; explanatory; as, adminicular evidence.
Adminicular.
Administrator.
Pertaining to administration, or to the executive part of government.
Capable of being administered; as, an administrable law.
Executive; acting; managing affairs. One who administers.
To administer.
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.
Pertaining to administration; administering; executive; as, an administrative body, ability, or energy.
One who administers affairs; one who directs, manages, executes, or dispenses, whether in civil, judicial, political, or ecclesiastical affairs; a manager.
The position or office of an administrator.
A woman who administers; esp., one who administers the estate of an intestate, or to whom letters of administration have been granted; a female administrator.
Admirableness.
Fitted to excite wonder; wonderful; marvelous.
The quality of being admirable; wonderful excellence.
In an admirable manner.
A naval officer of the highest rank; a naval officer of high rank, of which there are different grades. The chief gradations in rank are admiral, vice admiral, and rear admiral. The admiral is the commander in chief of a fleet or of fleets.
The office or position oaf an admiral; also, the naval skill of an admiral.
The office or jurisdiction of an admiral.
Admiration.
Wonder; astonishment.
Relating to or expressing admiration or wonder.
To wonder; to marvel; to be affected with surprise; -- sometimes with at.
Regarded with wonder and delight; highly prized; as, an admired poem.
One who admires; one who esteems or loves greatly.
Expressing admiration; as, an admiring glance.
The quality of being admissible; admissibleness; as, the admissibility of evidence.
Entitled to be admitted, or worthy of being admitted; that may be allowed or conceded; allowable; as, the supposition is hardly admissible.
The act or practice of admitting.
Implying an admission; tending to admit.
Pertaining to admission.
To suffer to enter; to grant entrance, whether into a place, or into the mind, or consideration; to receive; to take; as, they were into his house; to admit a serious thought into the mind; to admit evidence in the trial of a cause.
Admissible.
The reciprocal of impedance.
The certificate of admission given in some American colleges.
Received as true or valid; acknowledged. Confessedly.
One who admits.
To mingle with something else; to mix.
A mingling of different things; admixture.
To warn or notify of a fault; to reprove gently or kindly, but seriously; to exhort.
One who admonishes.
expressing adverse criticism as a corrective
Admonition.
Gentle or friendly reproof; counseling against a fault or error; expression of authoritative advice; friendly caution or warning.
Admonisher.
Admonitory.
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