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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.

Administratrix

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.

Admirable

Fitted to excite wonder; wonderful; marvelous.

Admirableness

The quality of being admirable; wonderful excellence.

Admiral

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.

Admiralship

The office or position oaf an admiral; also, the naval skill of an admiral.

Admiralty

The office or jurisdiction of an admiral.

Admirative

Relating to or expressing admiration or wonder.

Admire

To wonder; to marvel; to be affected with surprise; -- sometimes with at.

Admired

Regarded with wonder and delight; highly prized; as, an admired poem.

Admirer

One who admires; one who esteems or loves greatly.

Admiring

Expressing admiration; as, an admiring glance.

Admissibility

The quality of being admissible; admissibleness; as, the admissibility of evidence.

Admissible

Entitled to be admitted, or worthy of being admitted; that may be allowed or conceded; allowable; as, the supposition is hardly admissible.

Admissive

Implying an admission; tending to admit.

Admit

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.

Admittatur

The certificate of admission given in some American colleges.

Admix

To mingle with something else; to mix.

Admixtion

A mingling of different things; admixture.

Admonish

To warn or notify of a fault; to reprove gently or kindly, but seriously; to exhort.

admonishing

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.

Admonitory

That conveys admonition; warning or reproving; as, an admonitory glance.

Admortization

The reducing or lands or tenements to mortmain. See Mortmain.

Admove

To move or conduct to or toward.

Adnation

The adhesion or cohesion of different floral verticils or sets of organs.

Adnominal

Pertaining to an adnoun; adjectival; attached to a noun.

Adnoun

An adjective, or attribute.

Ado

To do; in doing; as, there is nothing ado.

Adobe

An unburnt brick dried in the sun; also used as an adjective, as, an adobe house, in Texas or New Mexico.

adobe-lily

a California herb (Fritillaria pluriflora) with pinkish purple flowers.

adobo

a Philippine dish of marinated vegetables and meat or fish; served with rice.

Adolescence

The state of growing up from childhood to manhood or womanhood; youth, or the period of life between puberty and maturity, generally considered to be, in the male sex, from fourteen to twenty-one. Sometimes used with reference to the lower animals.

Adolescency

The quality of being adolescent; youthfulness.

Adonai

A Hebrew name for God, usually translated in the Old Testament by the word /Lord/.

Adonean

Pertaining to Adonis; Adonic.

Adonic

Relating to Adonis, famed for his beauty. An Adonic verse.

Adonis

A youth beloved by Venus for his beauty. He was killed in the chase by a wild boar.

Adonist

One who maintains that points of the Hebrew word translated /Jehovah/ are really the vowel points of the word /Adonai./ See Jehovist.

Adopt

To take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.; esp. to take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be in the place of, or as, one's own child.

Adopted

Taken by adoption; taken up as one's own; as, an adopted son, citizen, country, word.

Adoption

The act of adopting, or state of being adopted; voluntary acceptance of a child of other parents to be the same as one's own child.

Adoptionist

One of a sect which maintained that Christ was the Son of God not by nature but by adoption.

Adoptive

Pertaining to adoption; made or acquired by adoption; fitted to adopt; as, an adoptive father, an child; an adoptive language.

Adorable

Deserving to be adored; worthy of divine honors.

Adorableness

The quality of being adorable, or worthy of adoration.

Adoration

The act of playing honor to a divine being; the worship paid to God; the act of addressing as a god.

adore

To worship with profound reverence; to pay divine honors to; to honor as a deity or as divine.

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