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or less, firm adhesion of the parts, as hard and ADJECTITIOUS. adj. [from adjection.]

soft, tough and brittle, are obvious.

-Prove that all things, on occasion, Love union, and desire adhesion.

Locke.

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ADJACENT. adj. [adjacens, Lat.] Lying near or close; bordering upon something.

It may corrupt within itself, although no part of it issue into the body adjacent. Bacon.

Uniform pellucid mediums, such as water, have no sensible reflection but in their external superficies, where they are adjacent to other mediums of a different density. Newton. ADJACENT. n. s. That which lies next another.

The sense of the author goes visibly in its own train, and the words, receiving a determined sense from their companions and adjacents, will not consent to give countenance and colour to what must be supported at any rate. Locke. ADIA PHOROUS. adj. [ačiapo] Neutral: particularly used of some spirits and salts, which are neither of an acid or alkaline nature. Quincy. Our adiaphorous spirit may be obtained, by distilling the liquor that is afforded by woods and divers other bodies. Boyle. ADIA'PHORY. n. s. [adiapogía.] Neutrality; indifference.

To ÁÓJECT. v. a. [adjicio, adjectum, Lat.] To add to; to put to another thing.

ADJECTION. n. s. [adjectio, Lat.] 3. The act of adjecting, or adding. 2. The thing adjected, or added.

That unto every pound of sulphur, an adjection of one ounce of quicksilver; or unto every pound of petre, one ounce of sal-ammoniac, will much intend the force, and consequently the report, I find no verity. Brown's Vulg. Errours.

Added; thrown in upon the rest. A'DJECTIVE. n. s. [adjectivum, Lat.] A word added to a noun, to signify the addition or separation of some quality, circumstance, or manner of being; as, good, bad, are adjectives, because, in speech, they are applied to nouns, to modify their signification, or intimate the manner of existence in the things signified thereby. Clarke.

All the versification of Claudian is included within the compass of four or five lines; perpetually closing his sense at the end of a verse, and that verse commonly which they call golden, or two substantives and two adjectives, with a verb betwixt them, to keep the peace. Dryden. A'DJECTIVELY. adv. [from adjective.] After the manner of an adjective: a term of grammar.

ADIEU'. adv. [from à Dieu, used elliptically for à Dieu je vous commende, used at the departure of friends.] The form of parting, originally importing a commendation to the Divine care, but now used, in a popular sense, sometimes to things inanimate; farewell.

Ne gave him leave to bid that aged sire
Adieu, but nimbly ran her wonted course.
Fairy Queen.

Use a more spacious ceremony to the noble lords; you restrained yourself within the list of too cold an adieu; be more expressive to them. Shakspeare.

While now I take my last adieu, Heave thou no sigh, nor shed a tear; Lest yet my half-clos'd eye may view On earth an object worth its care. To ADJOIN. v. a. [adjoindre, Fr. adjungo, Lat.]

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1. To join to; to unite to; to put to.

As one, who long in populous city pent,
Forth issuing on a summer's morn to breathe
Among the pleasant villages and farms
Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives delight.
Milton.

Corrections or improvements should be as remarks adjoined, by way of note or commentary, in their proper places, and superadded to a regular treatise. Watts.

2. To fasten by a joint or juncture.
As a massy wheel

Fixt on the summit of the highest mount,
To whose huge spoke ten thousand lesser things
Are mortis'd and adjoined. Shakspeare.

To ADJO'IN. v. n. To be contiguous to; to lie next, so as to have nothing between.

Th' adjoining fane th' assembled Greeks express'd,

And hunting of the Caledonian beast. Dryden. In learning any thing, as little should be proposed to the mind at once as is possible; and, that being understood and fully mastered, proceed to the next adjoining, yet unknown, simple, unperplexed proposition, belonging to the matter in hand, and tending to the clearing what is principally designed,

Locke.

To ADJOURN. v. a. [adjourner, Fr.] 1. To put off to another day, naming the time: a term used in juridical proceedings, as of parliaments, or courts of justice.

The queen being absent, 'tis a needful fitness, That we adjourn this court to further day. Shak. By the king's authority alone, and by his writs, they are assembled, and by him alone are they prorogued and dissolved; but each house may adjourn itself.

Bacon.

2. To put off; to defer; to let stay to a future time.

Then, Jupiter, thou king of gods,
Why hast thou thus adjourn'd
The graces for his merits due,
Being all to dolours turn'd.

Shakspeare. Crown high the goblets with a cheerful. draught:

Enjoy the present hour, adjourn the future thought. Dryden. The formation of animals being foreign to my purpose, I shall adjourn the consideration of it to another occasion. Woodward. ADJOURNMENT. n. s.[adjournement, Fr. 1. An assignment of a day, or a putting off till another day.

Adjournment in egre, an appointment of a day, when the justices in eyre mean to sit again. Corvell.

2. Delay; procrastination; dismission to a future time.

We will and we will not, and then we will not again, and we will. At this rate we run our lives out in adjournments from time to time, out of a fantastical levity that holds us off and on, betwixt hawk and buzzard. L'Estrange.. A'DIPOUS. adj. [adiposus, Lat.] Fat. Dict. A'DIT. n. s. Laditus, Lat.] A passage for the conveyance of water under ground; a passage under ground in general a term among the miners.

For conveying away the water, they stand in aid of sundry devices; as, adits, pumps, and wheels, driven by a stream, and interchangeably filling and emptying two buckets.

Carew.

The delfs would be so flown with waters (it being impossible to make any adits or soughs to drain them) that no gins or machines could suffice to lay and keep them dry. Ray ADITION. n. s. [from adeo, aditum, Lat.] The act of going to another. Dict. To ADJUDGE. V. a. [adjudico, Lat.] 1. To give the thing controverted to one of the parties by a judicial sentence; with the particle to before the person. The way of disputing in the schools is by insisting on one topical argument; by the success of which, victory is adjudged to the opponent, or defendant. Locke. The great competitors for Rome, Cæsar and Pompey, on Pharsalian plains, Where stern Bellona, with one final stroke, Adjudg'd the empire of this globe to one. Philips. 2. To sentence, or condemn to a punishment: with to before the thing.

But though thou art adjudged to the death; Yet I will favour thee in what I can. Shaksp. 3. Simply, to judge; to decree; to determine.

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To A'DJUGATE. v. a. [adjugo, Lat.] To yoke to; to join to another by a yoke. Dict. A'DJUMENT. n. s. [adjumentum, Lat. Dict

ADJUNCT. n. s. [adjunctum, Lat.] Help; support. 1. Something adherent or united to an other, though not essentially part of it. Learning is but an adjunct to ourself, And where we are, our fearning likewise is. Shak.

But I make haste to consider you as abstracted from a court, which (if you will give me leave to use a term of logick) is only an adjunct, not a propriety, of happiness. Dryden

The talent of discretion, in its several adjuncts and circumstances, is no where so serviceable as to the clergy. Swift. 2. A person joined to another. This sense rarely occurs.

He made him the associate of his heir-apparent, together with the lord Cottington (as an adjunct of singular experience and trust) in foreign travels, and in a business of love. Wotton. A'DJUNCT. adj. United with; immediately consequent.

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So well, that what you bid me undertake, Though that my death were adjunct to my act, I'd do 't. Shakspeare. ADJUNCTION. n. s. [adjunctio, Lat.] 1. The act of adjoining or coupling to gether.

2. The thing joined.

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ADJUNCTIVE. n. s. [ adjunctivus, Lat:] 1. He that joins.

2. That which is joined. ADJURA'TION. n. s. [adjuratio, Lat.] 1. The act of adjuring, or proposing an oath to another.

2. The form of oath proposed to another.

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When these learned men saw sickness and frenzy cured, the dead raised, the oracles put to silence, the dæmons and evil spirits forced to confess themselves no gods, by persons, who only made use of prayer and adjurations in the name of their crucified Saviour; how could they doubt of their Saviour's power on the like occasion? Addison.

To ADJU'RE. v. a. [adjuro, Lat.] To impose an oath upon another, prescribe ing the form in which he shall swear. Thou know'st, the magistrates

And princes of my country came in person,
Solicited, commanded, threaten'd, urg'd,
Adjur'd by all the bonds of civil duty
And of religion, press'd how just it was,
How honourable

Milton.

Ye lamps of heaven! he said, and lifted high His hands now free, thou venerable sky! Ye sacred altars! from whose flames I fled, Be all of you adjured. Dryden. To ADJUST v. a. [adjuster, Fr.] 1. To regulate; to put in order; to settle in the right form.

Your lordship removes all our difficulties, and supplies all our wants, faster than the most visionary projector can adjust his schemes. Swift. 2. To reduce to the true state or standard; to make accurate.

The names of mixed modes, for the most part, want standards in nature, whereby men may rectify and adjust their signification; therefore they are very various and doubtful. Locke. 3. To make conformable. It requires the particle to before the thing to which the conformity is made.

As to the accomplishment of this remarkable prophecy, whoever reads the account given by Josephus, without knowing his character, and compares it with what our Saviour foretold, would think the historian had been a christian, and that he had nothing else in view, but to adjust the event to the prediction. Addison. ADJUSTMENT, n. s. [adjustement, Fr.] 1. Regulation; the act of putting in method; settlement.

The farther and clearer adjustment of this affair, I am constrained to adjourn to the larger treatise. Woodward.

2. The state of being put in method, or regulated.

It is a vulgar idea we have of a watch or clock, when we conceive of it as an instrument made to shew the hour: but it is a learned idea which the watch-maker has of it, who knows all the several parts of it, together with the various connections and adjustments of each part. Watts. ADJUTANT. n. s. A petty officer, whose dutyisto assist the major, by distributing the pay, and overseeing the punishment of the common men.

To ADJUTE. v. a. [adjuvo, adjutum, Lat.] To help; to concur. Not in

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more than their part. It lieth in two cases: one is termed admeasurement of dower, where the widow of the deceased holdeth from the heir, or his guardian, more in the name of her dower, than belongeth to her. The other is admeasurement of pasture, which lieth between those that have common of pasture appendant to their freehold, or common by vicinage, in case any one of them, or more, do surcharge the common with more cattle than they ought. Corvell.

In some counties they are not much acquainted with admeasurement by acre; and thereby the writs contain twice or thrice so many acres more than the land hath. Bacon. ADMENSURA'TION. n. s. [ad and mensura, Lat.] The act, or practice, of meaADMINICLE. n. s. [adminiculum, Lat.] suring out to each his part. Help; support; furtherance. ADMINI'CULAR. adj. [from adminiculum, Lat.] That gives help.

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To ADMINISTER. v. a. [administro, Lat.]

1. To give; to afford; to supply. Let zephyrs bland

Administer their tepid genial airs;

Nought fear he from the west, whose gentle warmth

Discloses well the earth's all-teeming womb. Philips 2. To act as the minister or agent in any employment or office: generally, but not always, with some hint of subordination; as, to administer the govern

ment.

For forms of government let fools contest, Whate'er is best administer'd, is best. Pope 3. To administer justice; to distribute right.

4. To administer the sacraments, to dispense them.

Have not they the old popish custom of administering the blessed sacrament of the holy eucharist with wafer-cakes? Hooker.

5. To administer an oath; to propose or require an oath authoritatively; to

6.

tender an oath.

Swear by the duty that you owe to heav'n, To keep the oath that we administer. Shak. To administer physic; to give physic as it is wanted.

I was carried on men's shoulders, administering physic and phlebotomy. Wafer's Voyage. 7. To administer to; to contribute; to bring supplies.

I must not omit, that there is a fountain rising in the upper part of my garden, which forms a little wandering rill, and administers to the pleasure as well as the plenty of the place. Spect. 8. To perform the office of an administrator, in law. See ADMINISTRATOR.

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Neal's order was never performed, because the executors durst not administer, Arb, and Pope. ADMINISTRATE. v. a. [administro, Lat.] To exhibit; to give as physick. Not in use.

They have the same effects in medicine, when inwardly administrated to animal bodies. Weeds.

ADMINISTRATION. n. s. [administratio, Lat.]

1. The act of administering or conducting any employment; as, the conducting the public affairs; dispensing the laws. I then did use the person of your father; The image of his power lay then in me: And in th' administration of his law, While I was busy for the commonwealth, Your highness pleased to forget my place. Shak. In the short time of his administration, he shone so powerfully upon me, that, like the heat of a Russian summer, he ripened the fruits of poetry in a cold climate. Dryden. 2. The act or executive part of govern

ment.

It may pass for a maxim in state, that the administration cannot be placed in too few hands, nor the legislature in too many. Swift. 3. Collectively, those to whom the care of public affairs is committed; as, the administration has been opposed in parliament.

4. Distribution; exhibition; dispensation. There is in sacraments to be observed their force, and their form of administration. Hooker.

By the universal administration of grace, begun by our blessed Saviour, enlarged by his apostles, carried on by their immediate successors, and to be completed by the rest to the world's end; all types that darkened this faith are enlightened. Sprat's Sermons. ADMINISTRATIVE, adj. [from administrate.] That does administer; that by which any one administers. ADMINISTRATOR. n. s. [administrator,

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He was wonderfully diligent to enquire and observe what became of the king of Arragon, in holding the kingdom of Castille, and whether he did hold it in his own right, or as administrator to his daughter. Bacon's Henry VII. 2. He that officiates in divine rites.

I feel my conscience bound to remember the death of Christ, with some society of christians or other, since it is a most plain command; whether the person, who distributes these elements, be only an occasional or a settled administrator.

Watts.

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of power to excite wonder: always taken in a good sense, and applied either to persons or things.

The more power he hath to hurt, the more admirable is his praise, that he will not hurt. Sidney.

God was with them in all their afflictions, and at length, by working their admirable deliverance, did testify that they served him not in vain. Hooker. What admirable things occur in the remains of several other philosophers! Short, I confess, of the rules of christianity, but generally above the lives of christians. South's Sermons.

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3. The ship which carries the admiral or commander of the fleet.

The admiral galley, wherein the emperor himself was, by great mischance, struck upon a sand. Knolles

A'DMIRALSHIP. n. s. [from admiral.] The office or power of an admiral. ADMIRALTY. n. s. [amiraulté, Fr.] The power, or officers, appointed for the administration of naval affairs. ADMIRATION. n. s. [admiratio, Lat.] 1. Wonder; the act of admiring or wondering.

Indued with human voice, and human sense, Reasoning to admiration. Milton.

The passions always move, and therefore consequently please; for, without motion, there can be no delight, which cannot be considered but as an active passion. When we view those elevated ideas of nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure. Dryden,

There is a pleasure in admiration, and this is

that which properly causeth admiration, when we discover a great deal in an object which we understand to be excellent; and yet we see, we know not how much niore, beyond that, which our understandings cannot fully reach and comprehend. Tillotson. 2. It is taken sometimes in a bad sense, though generally in a good.

Your boldness I with admiration see; What hope had you to gain a queen like me?" Because a hero forc'd me once away,

Am I thought fit to be a second prey? Dryden. To ADMIRE. v. a. [admiro, Lat. admirer, Fr.]

1. To regard with wonder; generally in a good sense.

'Tis here that knowledge wonders, and there is an admiration that is not the daughter of ignorance. This indeed stupidly gazeth at the unwonted effect; but the philosophic passion truly admires and adores the supreme efficient. Glanville. 2. It is sometimes used, in more familiar speech, for to regard with love.

3. It is used, but rarely, in an ill sense.

You have displac'd the mirth, broke the good meeting,

With most admir'd disorder.

Shakspeare.

To ADMIRE. n. v. To wonder; sometimes with the particle at..

The eye is already so perfect, that I believe the reason of a man would easily have rested here, and admir'd at his own contrivance. Ray. ADMIRER. n. 5. [from admire.]

1. The person that wonders, or regards with admiration.

Neither Virgil nor Horace 'would have gained so great reputation, had they not been the friends and admirers of each other. Addison. Who most to shun or hate mankind pretend, Seek an admirer, or would fix a friend." Pope. 2. In common speech, a lover. ADMIRINGLY. adv.[from admire.] With admiration; in the manner of an admirer.

The king very lately spoke of him admiringly and mournfully. Shakspeare, We may yet further admiringly observe, that men usually give freeliest where they have not given before. Boyle. ADMISSIBLE. adj. [admitio, admissum, Lat.] That may be admitted.

Suppose that this supposition were admissible, yet this would not any way be inconsistent with the eternity of the divine nature and essence. Hale.

ADMISSION. n. s. [admissio, Lat.] 1. The act or practice of admitting.

There was also enacted that charitable law, for the admission of poor suitors without fee; whereby poor men became rather able to vex, than unable to sue. Bacon's Henry VII. By means of our solitary situation, and our rare admission of strangers, we know most part of the habitable world, and are ourselves unknown. Bacon's New Atalantis.

2. The state of being admitted.

My father saw you ill designs pursue; And my admission show'd his fear of you. Dryd. ... God did then exercise man's hopes with the

expectations of a better paradise, or a more intimate admission to himself. South's Sermons. Our king descends from Jove:

And hither are we come, by his command, To crave admission in your happy land. Dryden. 3. Admittance; the power of entering, or being admitted.

All springs have some degree of heat, none ever freezing, no not in the longest and severest frosts; especially those, where there is such a site and disposition of the strata as gives free and easy admission to this heat. Woodward's Nat. Hist. 4. [In the ecclesiastical law.] It is, when the patron presents a clerk to a church that is vacant, and the bishop, upon examination, admits and allows of such clerk to be fitly qualified, by saying, Admitto te babilem. Ayliffe's Parergon. 5. The allowance of an argument; the grant of a position not fully proved. To ADMIT. v. a. [admitto, Lat.] 1. To suffer to enter; to grant entrance. Mirth admit me of thy crew. Milton. Does not one table Bavius still admit? Pope. 2. To suffer to enter upon an office: in which sense the phrase of admission into a college, &c. is used.

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The treasurer found it no hard matter so far to terrify him, that, for the king's service, as was pretended, he admitted, for a six-clerk, a person recommended by him., Clarendon.

3. To allow an argument or position.

Suppose no weapon can 'thy valour's pride Subdue, that by no force thou may'st be won, Admit no steel can hurt or wound thy side,, And be it heav'n hath thee such favour done. Fairfax.

This argument is like to have the less effect on me, seeing I cannot easily admit the inference. Locke. 4. To allow, or grant, in general: sometimes with the particle of

If you once admit of a latitude, that thoughts may be exalted, and images raised above the life, that leads you insensibly from your own principles to mine. Dryden, ADMITTABLE. adj. [from admit.] That may be admitted.

Because they have not a bladder like those we observe in others, they have no gall at all, is a paralogism not admittable, a fallacy that needs not the sun to scatter it. Brown.

The clerk, who is presented, ought to prove to the bishop, that he is a deacon, and that he has orders; otherwise, the bishop is not bound to admit him: for, as the law then stood, a deacon was admittable. Ayliffe's Parergon. ADMITTANCE. n. s. [from admit.] 1. The act of admitting; allowance or permission to enter.

It cannot enter any man's conceit to think it lawful, that every man which listeth should take upon him charge in the church; and therefore a solemn admittance is of such necessity, that, without it, there can be no church-polity.

Hooker.

As to the admittance of the weighty elastic parts of the air into the blood, through the coats of the vessels, it seems contrary to experiments upon dead bodies. Arbuthnot on Aliments.

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