Webster's Dictionary 1828

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ADMONITORY

ADMON'ITORY, adjective Containing admonition; that admonishes.

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ADMORTIZATION

ADMORTIZA'TION, noun The reducing of lands or tenements to mortmain. [See Mortmain.]

894

ADMOVE

ADMOVE', verb transitive [Latin admoveo.]To move to; to bring one thing to another. [Little used.]

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ADNASCENT

ADNAS'CENT, adjective [Latin ad and nascens, growing.]

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ADNATA

ADNA'TA, noun [Latin ad and natus, grown from nascor, to grow.]1. In anatomy, one of the coats of the eye, which is also called albuginea, and is sometimes confounded with the c...

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ADNATE

AD'NATE, adjective [Latin ad and natus, grown.]In botany, pressing close to the stem, or growing to it.

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ADNOUN

AD'NOUN, noun [ad and noun.]In grammar, an adjective, or attribute. [Little used.]

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ADO

ADO', nounBustle; trouble; labor; difficulty; as, to make a great ado about trifles; to persuade one with much ado

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ADOLESCENCE

ADOLES'CENCE, noun [Latin adolescens, growing, of ad and olesco, to grow, from oleo. Heb. to ascend.]The state of growing, applied to the young of the human race; youth, or the ...

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ADOLESCENT

ADOLES'CENT, adjective Growing; advancing from childhood to manhood.

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ADONEAN

ADONE'AN, adjective Pertaining to Adonis.Fair adonean Venus.

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ADONIA

ADO'NIA, noun Festivals celebrated anciently in honor of Adonis, by females, who spent two days in lamentations and infamous pleasures.

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ADONIC

ADO'NIC, adjectiveadonic Verse, a short verse, in which the death of Adonis was bewailed. It consists of a dactyl and spondee or trochee.ADO'NIC, noun An adonic verse.

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ADONIS

ADO'NIS, noun In mythology, the favorite of Venus, said to be the son of Cinyras, king of Cyprus. He was fond of hunting, and received a mortal wound from the tusk of a wild boa...

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ADONISTS

ADO'NISTS, noun [Heb. Lord, a scriptural title of the Supreme Being.]Among critics, a sect or party who maintain that the Hebrew points ordinarily annexed to the consonants of t...

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ADOPT

ADOPT', verb transitive [Latin adopto, of ad and opto, to desire or choose. See Option.]1. To take a stranger into one's family, as son and heir; to take one who is not a child,...

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ADOPTED

ADOPT'ED, participle passive Taken as one's own; received as son and heir; selected for use.

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ADOPTEDLY

ADOPT'EDLY, adverb In the manner of something adopted.

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ADOPTER

ADOPT'ER, noun1. One who adopts.2. In chimistry, a large round receiver, with two necks, diametrically opposite to each other, one of which admits the neck of a retort, and the ...

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ADOPTING

ADOPT'ING, participle present tense Taking a stranger as a son; taking as one's own.

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ADOPTION

ADOP'TION, noun [Latin adoptio.]1. The act of adopting, or the state of being adopted; the taking and treating of a stranger as one's own child.2. The receiving as one's own, wh...

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ADOPTIVE

ADOPT'IVE, adjective [Latin adoptivus.]That adopts, as an adoptive father; or that is adopted, as an adoptive son.ADOPT'IVE, noun A person or thing adopted.

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ADORABLE

ADO'RABLE, adjective That ought to be adored; worth of divine honors. In popular use, worthy of the utmost love or respect.

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ADORABLENESS

ADO'RABLENESS, noun The quality of being adorable, or worthy of adoration.

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ADORABLY

ADO'RABLY, adverb In a manner worthy of adoration.

917

ADORATION

ADORA'TION, noun1. The act of paying honors to a divine being; the worship paid to God; the act of addressing as a God.Adoration consists in external homage, accompanied with th...

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ADORE

ADO'RE, verb transitive [Latin adoro. In Heb. to honor, reverence or glorify to adorn; to be magnificent or glorious, to magnify, to glorify. This word is usually referred to th...