Webster's Dictionary 1913

1540

Admonitive

Ad‐mon″i‐tive (�), a. Admonitory. Barrow. — Ad‐mon″i‐tive‐ly, adv.

1541

Admonitor

Ad‐mon″i‐tor (�), n. Admonisher; monitor.Conscience is at most times a very faithful and prudent admonitor.Shenstone.

1542

Admonitorial

Ad‐mon′i‐to″ri‐al (�), a. Admonitory. “An admonitorial tone.” Dickens.

1543

Admonitory

Ad‐mon″i‐to‐ry (�), a. [LL. admonitorius.] That conveys admonition; warning or reproving; as, an admonitory glance. — Ad‐mon″i‐to‐ri‐ly, (�), adv.

1544

Admonitrix

Ad‐mon″i‐trix (�), n. A female admonitor.

1545

Admortization

Ad‐mor′ti‐za″tion (�), n. [LL. admortizatio. Cf. Amortization.] (Law) The reducing or lands or tenements to mortmain. See Mortmain.

1546

Admove

Ad‐move″ (�), v. t. [L. admovere. See Move.] To move or conduct to or toward. Sir T. Browne.

1547

Adnascent

Ad‐nas″cent (�), a. [L. adnascens, p. pr. of adnasci to be born, grow.] Growing to or on something else. “An adnascent plant.” Evelyn.

1548

Adnate

Ad″nate (�), a. [L. adnatus, p. p. of adnasci. See Adnascent, and cf. Agnate.] 1. (Physiol.) Grown to congenitally.2. (Bot.) Growing together; — said only of organic cohesion of...

1549

Adnation

Ad‐na″tion (�), n.(Bot.) The adhesion or cohesion of different floral verticils or sets of organs.

1550

Adnominal

Ad‐nom″i‐nal (�), a. [L. ad + nomen noun.] (Gram.) Pertaining to an adnoun; adjectival; attached to a noun. Gibbs. — Ad‐nom″i‐nal‐ly, adv.

1551

Adnoun

Ad″noun′ (�), n. [Pref. ad- + noun.] (Gram.) An adjective, or attribute. Coleridge.

1552

Adnubilated

Ad‐nu″bi‐la′ted (�), a. [L. adnubilatus, p. p. of adnubilare.] Clouded; obscured.

1553

Ado

A‐do″ (ȧ‐do͞o″), (1) v. inf., (2) n. [OE. at do, northern form for to do. Cf. Affair.] 1. To do; in doing; as, there is nothing ado. “What is here ado?” J. Newton.2. Doing; trou...

1554

Adobe

‖A‐do″be (ȧ‐dō″bā̍), n. An unburnt brick dried in the sun; also used as an adjective, as, an adobe house, in Texas or New Mexico.

1555

Adobe (2)

‖A‐do″be (?), n. 1. Earth from which unburnt bricks are made.2. (Geol.) Alluvial and playa clays of desert and arid regions, differing from ordinary clays of humid regions in co...

1556

Adolescence

Ad′o‐les″cence (�), n. [Fr., fr. L. adolescentia.] The state of growing up from childhood to manhood or womanhood; youth, or the period of life between puberty and maturity, gen...

1557

Adolescency

Ad′o‐les″cen‐cy (�), n. The quality of being adolescent; youthfulness.

1558

Adolescent

Ad′o‐les″cent (ăd′ō̍‐lĕs″sent), a. [L. adolescens, p. pr. of adolescere to grow up to; ad + the inchoative olescere to grow: cf. F. adolescent. See Adult.] Growing; advancing fr...

1559

Adolescent (2)

Ad′o‐les″cent, n. A youth.

1560

Adonai

‖Ad′o‐na″i (?), n. [Heb. adōnāi, lit., my lord.] A Hebrew name for God, usually translated in the Old Testament by the word “Lord”.☞ The later Jews used its vowel points to fill...

1561

Adonean

Ad′o‐ne″an (–nē″an), a. [L. Adonēus.] Pertaining to Adonis; Adonic. “Fair Adonean Venus.” Faber.

1562

Adonic

A‐don″ic (�), a. [F. adonique: cf. L. Adonius.] Relating to Adonis, famed for his beauty. — n. An Adonic verse.Adonic verse, a verse consisting of a dactyl and spondee (— ⏑ ⏑ | ...

1563

Adonis

‖A‐do″nis (ȧ‐dō″nĭs), n. [L., gr. Gr. Ἄδωνισ.] 1. (Gr. Myth.) A youth beloved by Venus for his beauty. He was killed in the chase by a wild boar.2. A preëminently beautiful youn...

1564

Adonist

A‐do″nist (ȧ‐dō″nĭst), n. [Heb. ădōnāi my Lords.] One who maintains that points of the Hebrew word translated “Jehovah” are really the vowel points of the word “Adonai.” See Jeh...

1565

Adonize

Ad″o‐nize (ăd″ō̍‐nīz), v. t. [Cf. F. adoniser, fr. Adonis.] To beautify; to dandify.I employed three good hours at least in adjusting and adonozing myself.Smollett.

1566

Adoor

{ A‐door (�), A‐doors (�), } At the door; of the door; as, out adoors. Shak.I took him in adoors.Vicar's Virgil (1630).