Webster's Dictionary 1828

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ADHORTATORY

ADHORT'ATORY, adjective [Latin adhortor, to advise, ad and hortor.]Advisory; containing counsel or warning.

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ADIAPHORISTS

ADIAPH'ORISTS, noun [Gr. indifferent.]Moderate Lutherans; a name given in the sixteenth century, to certain men that followed Melancthon, who was more pacific than LutherThe adi...

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ADIAPHOROUS

ADIAPH'OROUS, adjective Indifferent; neutral; a name given by Boyle to a spirit distilled from tartar, and some other vegetable substances, neither acid, nor alkaline, or not po...

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ADIEU

ADIEU', Adu'.Farewell; an expression of kind wishes at the parting of friends.ADIEU', noun A farewell, or commendation to the care of God; as an everlasting adieu

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ADIPOCERATE

ADIPOC'ERATE, verb transitive To convert into adipocere.

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ADIPOCERATION

ADIPOCERA'TION, noun The act or process of being changed into adipocere.

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ADIPOCERE

AD'IPOCERE, noun [Latin adeps, fat, and cera.]A soft unctuous or waxy substance, of a light brown color, into which the muscular fibers of dead animal bodies are converted, when...

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ADIPOSE

AD'IPOSE, adjective [Latin adiposus, from adeps, fat. Heb. fat, gross, AD'IPOUS, stupid.]Fat. The adipose membrane is the cellular membrane, containing the fat in its cells, and...

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ADIT

ADIT, noun [Latin aditus, from adeo, aditum, to approach, ad and eo, to go.]An entrance or passage; a term in mining, used to denote the opening by which a mine is entered, or b...

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ADJACENCY

ADJA'CENCY, noun [Latin adjaceo, to lie contiguous, from ad and jaceo, to lie.]The state of lying close or contiguous; a bordering upon, or lying next to; as the adjacency of la...

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ADJACENT

ADJA'CENT, adjective Lying near, close, or contiguous; bordering upon; as, a field adjacent to the highway.ADJA'CENT, noun That which is next to or contiguous. [Little used.]

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ADJECT

ADJECT' verb transitive [Latin adjicio, of ad and jacio, to throw.]To add or put, as one thing to another.

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ADJECTION

ADJEC'TION, noun The act of adding, or thing added. [Little used.]

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ADJECTITIOUS

ADJECTI'TIOUS, adjective Added

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ADJECTIVE

AD'JECTIVE, noun In grammar, a word used with a noun, to express a quality of the thing named, or something attributed to it, or to limit or define it, or to specify or describe...

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ADJECTIVELY

AD'JECTIVELY, adverb In the manner of an adjective; as, a word is used adjectively

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ADJOIN

ADJOIN', verb transitive [Latin adjungo, ad and jungo. See Join.]To join or unite to; to put to, by placing in contact; to unite, by fastening together with a joint, mortise, or...

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ADJOINANT

ADJOIN'ANT, adjective Contiguous to. [Not used.]

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ADJOINED

ADJOIN'ED, participle passive Joined to; united.

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ADJOINING

ADJOIN'ING, participle present tense Joining to; adjacent; contiguous.

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ADJOURN

ADJOURN', verb transitive Adjurn'.Literally, to put off, or defer to another day; but now used to denote a formal intermission of business, a putting off to any future meeting o...

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ADJOURNED

ADJOURN'ED, participle passive1. Put off, delayed, or deferred for a limited time.2. As an adjective, existing or held by adjournment, as an adjourned session of a court, oppose...

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ADJOURNING

ADJOURN'ING, participle present tense Deferring; suspending for a time; closing a session.

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ADJOURNMENT

ADJOURN'MENT, noun1. The act of adjourning; as, in legislatures, the adjournment of one house is not an adjournment of the other.2. The putting off till another day or time spec...

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ADJUDGE

ADJUDGE', verb transitiveTo decide, or determine, in the case of a controverted question; to decree by a judicial opinion; used appropriately of courts of law and equity.The cas...

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ADJUDGED

ADJUDG'ED, participle passive Determined by judicial opinion; decreed; sentenced.

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ADJUDGING

ADJUDG'ING, participle present tense Determining by judicial opinion; sentencing.