3. Custom, or prerogative, of being admitted to great persons: a sense now out of use. Sir John, you are a gentleman of excellent breeding, of great admittance, authentick in your place and person, generally allowed for your many warlike, courtlike, and learned preparations. Shakspeare. 4. Concession of a position. Nor could the Pythagoreans give easy admittance thereto; for, holding that separate souls successively supplied other bodies, they could hardly allow the raising of souls from other worlds. Brown's Vulgar Errours. To ADMIX. a. [admisceo, Lat.] To mingle with something else. ADMIXTION. n. s. [from admix.] The union of one body with another, by mingling them. All metals may be calcined by strong waters, or by admixtion of salt, sulphur, and mercury. Bacon. The elements are no where pure in these lower regions; and if there is any free from the admixtion of another, sure it is above the concave of the moon. Glanville. There is no way to make a strong and vigorous powder of salt-petre, without the admixtion of sulphur. Brown's Vulgar Errours. ADMIXTURE. n. s. [from admix.] The body mingled with another; perhaps sometimes the act of mingling. Whatever acrimony, or amaritude, at any time redounds in it, must be derived from the admixture of another sharp bitter substance. Harvey. A mass which to the eye appears to be nothing but mere simple earth, shall, to the smell or taste, discover a plentiful admixture of sulphur, alum, or some other mineral. Woodw.Nat. Hist. To ADMONISH. v. a. [admoneo, Lat.] To warn of a fault; to reprove gently; to counsel against wrong practices; to put in mind of a fault or a duty: with the particle of; or against, which is more rare; or the infinitive mood of a verb. One of his cardinals, who better knew the intrigues of affairs, admonished him against that unskilful piece of ingenuity. Decay of Piety. He of their wicked ways Shall them admonish, and before them set The paths of righteousness. Milton. But when he was admonished by his subject to descend, he came down, gently circling in the air, and singing, to the ground. Dryden. ADMOʻNISHER, n. s. [from admonish.] The person that admonishes, or puts another in mind of his faults or duty. Horace was a mild admonisher; a court satirist, fit for the gentle times of Augustus. Dryden. ADMONISHMENT. n. s. [from admonish.] Admonition; the notice by which one is put in mind of faults or duties: a word not often used. But yet be wary in thy studious care.-Thy grave admonishments prevail with me. Shakspeare. To th' infinitely Good we owe Immortal thanks, and his admonishment Receive, with solemn purpose to observe Immutably his sovereign will, the end Of what we are. Milton. ADMONI'TION. n. s. [admonitio, Lat.} The hint of a fault or duty; counsel; gentle reproof. They must give our teachers leave, for the saving of souls, to intermingle sometimes with other more necessary things, admonition concerning these not unnecessary. Hooker. From this admonition they took only occasion to redouble their fault, and to sleep again; so that, upon a second and third admonition, they had nothing to plead for their unseasonable drowsiness. South's Sermons. ADMONITIONER. n. s. [from admonition.] A liberal dispenser of admonition; a general adviser. A ludicrous term. Albeit the admonitioners did seem at first to like no prescript form of prayer at all, but thought it the best that their minister should always be left at liberty to pray as his own discretion did serve, their defender, and his associates, have sithence proposed to the world a form as themselves did like. Hooker. ADMONITORY. adj. [admonitorius, Lat] That does admonish. The sentence of reason is either mandatory, shewing what must be done; or else permissive, declaring only what may be done; or, thirdly, admonitory, opening what is the most convenient for us to do. Hooker. To ADMO'VE. v. a. [admoveo, Lat. To bring one thing to another. Not in use. If, under the powder of loadstone or iron, we admove the north-pole of the loadstone, the powders, or small divisions, will erect and conform themselves thereto. Brown's Vulgar Er. ADMURMURA'TION. n. s. [admurmuro, Lat] The act of murmuring, or whispering to another. Dict. ADO. n. s. [from the verb to do, with a before it, as the French affaire, from à and faire.] 1. Trouble; difficulty. He took Clitophon prisoner, whom, with much ado, he keepeth alive; the Helots being villainously cruel. Sidney. They moved, and in the end persuaded, with much ado, the people to bind themselves by solemn oath. Hooker. He kept the borders and marches of the pale with much ado; he held many parliaments, wherein sundry laws were made. Sir J. Davies. With much ado, he partly kept awake; Not suff'ring all his eyes repose to take. Dryd. 2. Bustle; tumult; business: sometimes with the particle about. Let's follow, to see the end of this ado. Shakspeare. All this ado about Adam's fatherhood, and the greatness of its power, helps nothing to establish Locke. the power of those that govern. 3. It has a light and ludicrous sense, implying more tumult and show of business, than the affair is worth in this sense it is of late generally used. I made no more ada, but took all their seven points in my target, thus. Shakspeare. We'll keep no great ado, a friend or twoIt may be thought we held him carelessly, Being our kinsman, if we revel much. Shak. Come, says Puss, without any more ado, 'tis time to go to breakfast; cats don't live upon dialogues. L'Estrange. ADOLESCENCE. 2. s. [adolescentia, ADOLESCENCY. Lat.] The age succeeding childhood, and succeeded by puberty; more largely, that part of life in which the body has not reached its full perfection. He was so far from a boy, that he was a man born, and at his full stature, if we believe Josephus, who places him in the last adolescency, and makes him twenty-five years old. Brown. The sons must have a tedious time of childhood and adolescence, before they can either themselves assist their parents, or encourage them with new hopes of posterity. Bentley. T. ADOPT. v. a. [adopto, Lat.] 1. To take a son by choice; to make him a son, who was not so by birth. Were none of all my father's sisters left; Nay, were I of my mother's kin bereft; None by an uncle's or a grandame's side, Yet I could some adopted heir provide. Dryd. 2. To place any person or thing in a nearer relation, than they have by nature, to something else. Whether adopted to some neighb'ring star, Thou roll'st above us in thy wand'ring race, Or, in procession fix'd and regular, Mov'd with the heav'ns majestic pace; Or call'd to more celestial bliss, Thou tread'st, with seraphims, the vast abyss. Dryden. We are seldom at ease from the solicitation of our natural or adopted desires; but a constant succession of uneasinesses, out of that stock, which natural wants, or acquired habits, have heaped up, take the will in their turns. Locke. ADOPTEDLY.adv. [from adopted.] After the manner of something adopted. Adoptedly, as school-maids change their names, By vain, though apt affection. Sbaksp. ADOPTER. n. s. [from adopt.] He that gives some one by choice the rights of a son. ADOPTION. n. s. [adoptio, Lat.] 1. The act of adopting, or taking to one's self what is not native. 2. The state of being adopted. My bed shall be abused, my reputation gnawn at; and I shall not only receive the villanous wrong, but stand under the adoption of abemis nable terms, and by him that does me the wrong. Shakspeare. She purpos'd, When she had fitted you with her craft, to work Her son into th' adoption of the crown. Sbuk. In every act of our christian worship, we are taught to call upon him under the endearing character of our Father, to remind us of our adoption, that we are made heirs of God, and joint heirs of Christ. Rogers' Sermons. ADOPTIVE. adj. [adoptivus, Lat.] 1. That is adopted by another. It is impossible an elective monarch should be so free and absolute as an hereditary; no more than it is possible for a father to have so full power and interest in an adoptive son, as in a natural. Bacon. 2. That docs adopt another. An adopted son cannot cite his adoptive father into court, without his leave, Ayliffe ADORABLE. adj. adorable, Fr.] That ought be adored; worthy of divine honours. On these two, the love of God, and our neighbour, hang both the law and the prophets, says the adorable Author of christianity; and the apostle says, the end of the law is charity. Cheyne ADORABLENESS. n. s. [from adorable.] The quality of being adorable; worthiness of divine honours. ADORABLY, adv. [from adorable.] In a manner worthy of adoration. ADORA'TION. n. s. [adoratio, Lat] 1. The external homage paid to the divinity, distinct from mental reverence. Solemn and serviceable worship we name, for distinction sake, whatsoever belongeth to the church, or publick society, of God, by way of external adoration. Hooker. It is possible to suppose, that those who believe a supreme excellent Being, may yet give him nó external adoration at all. Stilling feet. 2. Homage paid to persons in high place or esteem. O ceremony, shew me but thy worth: What is thy toll, O adoration! Art thou nought else but place, degree, and form, Wherein thou art less happy, being fear'd, What drink'st thou oft, instead of homage sweet, But poison'd flattery? Shakspeare. To ADO'RE. v. a. {adoro, Lat.] 1. To worship with external homage; to pay divine honours. The mountain nymphs and Themis they adere, And from her oracles relief implore. Dryden 2. It is used, popularly, to denote a high degree of reverence or regard; to reverence; to honour; to love. The people appear adoring their prince, and their prince adoring God. Tatler. Make future times thy equal act adore, And be what brave Orestes was before. Pope. ADO'REMENT. n. s. [from adore.] Adoration; worship: a word scarcely used. The priests of elder times deluded their ap prehensions with soothsaying, and such oblique idolatries, and won their credulities to the literal and downright adorement of cats, lizards, and beetles. Brown's Vulgar Errours. ADO'RER. n. s. [from adore.] 1. He that adores; a worshipper: a term generally used in a low sense, as by lovers or admirers. Being so far provoked as I was in France, I would abate her nothing; though I profess myself her adorer, not her friend. Shakspeare. Whilst as th'approaching pageant does appear, And echoing crowds speak mighty Venus near; 1, her adorer, too devoutly stand Fast on the utmost margin of the land. Prior. 2. A worshipper: in a serious sense. He was so severe an adorer of truth, as not to dissemble; or to suffer any man to think that he would do any thing, which he resolved not to do. Clarendon. To ADORN. v. a. [adorno, Lat.] 1. To dress; to deck the person with or naments. He hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels. Isaiah. Yet 'tis not to adorn and gild each part, That shews more cost than art; Jewels at nose and lips but ill appear. Cowley. 2. To set out any place or thing with decorations. A galley adorned with the pictures or statues of the invention of things useful to human life. Corley. 3. To embellish with oratory or elegance of language. This will supply men's tongues with many new things, to be named, adorned, and described, in their discourse. Sprat. Thousands there are in darker fame that dwell, Whose names some nobler poem shall adorn; For, tho' unknown to me, they sure fought well. Dryden. ADO'RN. adj. [from the verb.] Adorned; decorated: a word peculiar to Milton. She 'll to realities yield all her shows, Made so adorn for thy delight the more. Milton. ADO'RNMENT. n. s. [from adorn.] Ornament; embellishment; elegance. Not in use. This attribute was not given to the earth, while it was confused; nor to the heavens, be fore they had motion and adornment. Raleigh. She held the very garment of Posthumus in more respect than my noble and natural person, together with the adornment of my qualities. Shakspeare's Cymbeline. ADO'WN. adv. [from a and down.] Down; on the ground. Thrice did she sink adown in deadly sound, And thrice he her reviv'd with busy pain. Fairy Q. ADO'WN. prep. Down; toward the ground; from a higher situation toward a lower. In this remembrance Emily ere day Dryd. ADRE'AD. adv. [from a and dread; as, aside, athirst, asleep.] In a state of fear; frighted; terrified. Obsolete. And thinking to make all men adread to such a one an enemy, who would not spare, nor fear to kill, so great a prince. Sidney. ADRIFT. adv. [from a and drift, from drive.] Floating at random, as any impulse may drive. Then shall this mount Of Paradise, by might of waves, be mov'd It seem'd a corps adrift to distant sight; But at a distance who could judge aright? Dryd. The custom of frequent reflection will keep their minds from running adrift, and call their thoughts home from useless unattentive roving. Locke on Education. ADROIT. adj. [French.] Dexterous; active; skilful. An adroit stout fellow would sometimes destroy a whole family, with justice apparently against him the whole time. Jerv. Don Quix ARDO'ITNESS. n. s. [from adroit.] Dex terity; readiness; activity. Neither this word, nor adroit, seem yet completely naturalized. ADRY'. adv. [from a and dry.] Athirst; thirsty; in want of drink. He never told any of them that he was his humble servant, but his well-wisher; and would rather be thought a malecontent, than drink the king's health when he was not adry. Spectator. ADSCITI'TIOUS. adj. [adscititius, Lat.} That is taken in to complete something else, though originally extrinsick; supplemental; additional. ADSTRICTION. n. s. [adstrictio, Lat.] The act of binding together; and applied, generally, to medicaments and applications, which have the power of making the part contract. To ADVANCE. v. á. [avancer, Fr.] 1. To bring forward, in the local sense. New morn, her rosy steps in th' eastern clime Advancing, sow'd the earth with orient pearl. Milton. 2. To raise to preferment; to aggrandize. He hath been ever constant in his course of advancing me; from a private gentlewoman he made me a marchioness, and from a marchioness a queen; and now he intends to crown my innocency with the glory of martyrdom. Bacon. The declaration of the greatness of Mordecai, whereunto the king advanced him. Esther. 3. To improve. What laws can be advised more proper and effectual to advance the nature of man to its highest perfection, than these precepts of christianity? Tillotson. 4. To heighten; to grace; to give lustre to. As the calling dignifies the man, so the man much more advances his calling. As a garment, thought it warms the body, has a return All the foot were put into Abington, with a resolution to quit, or defend, the town, according to the manner of the enemy's advance towards it. Clarendon. So, like the sun's advance, your titles show; Which, as he rises, does the warmer grow. Waller. 2. A tendency to come forward to meet a lover; an act of invitation. In vain are all the practis'd wiles, The skill of ev'ry common beau; Walsh. Swift. He has described the unworthy passion of the goddess Calypso, and the indecent advances she made to detain him from his own country. Pope. That prince applied himself first to the church of England, and upon their refusal to fall in with his measures, made the like advances to the dis-, Swift. senters. 3. Gradual progression; rise from one point to another. Our Saviour raised the ruler's daughter, the widow's son, and Lazarus; the first of these, when she had just expired; the second, as he was carried to the grave on his bier; and the third, after he had been some time buried. And having, by these gradual advances, manifested his divine power, he at last exerted the highest and most glorious degree of it; and raised himself also by his own all-quickening virtue, and according to his own express prediction. Atterbury. Men of study and thought, that reason right, and are lovers of truth, do make no great advances in their discoveries of it. Locke. Improvement; progress toward perfection. ADVANCEMENг. n. s. [avancement, Fr.] 1. The act of coming forward. This refinement makes daily advancements, and I hope, in time, will raise our language to the utmost perfection. Swift. 2. The state of being advanced; preferment. The Percies of the north, Finding his usurpation most unjust, Endeavour'd my advancement to the throne. Shaksp. 3. The act of advancing another. In his own grace he doth exalt himself More than in your advancement. Shakspeare. 4. Improvement; promotion to a higher state of excellence. Nor can we conceive it unwelcome unto those worthies, who endeavour the advancement of learning. Brown's Vulgar Errours. 5. Settlement on a wife. This sense is now disused. The jointure or advancement of the lady, was the third part of the principality of Wales. Bacon. ADVANCER. n. s. [from advance.] He that advances any thing; a promoter ; forwarder. Soon after the death of a great officer, who was judged no advancer of the king's matters, the king said to his solicitor,Tell me truly,what say you of your cousin that is gone? Bacon. The reporters are greater advancers of defamatory designs, than the very first contrivers. Government of the Tongue. ADVANTAGE. n. s. [avantage, Fr.] 1. Superiority; often with of or over before a person. In the practical prudence of managing such gifts, the laity may have some advantage over the clergy; whose experience is, and ought to be, less of this world than the other. Sprat. All other sorts and sects of men would evidently have the advantage of us, and a much surer title to happiness than we. Atterbury. 2. Superiority gained by stratagem, or unlawful means. The common law hath left them this benefit, whereof they make advantage, and wrest it to their bad purposes. Spenser's State of Ireland. But specially he took advantage of the night for such privy attempts, insomuch that the bruit of his manliness was spread every where. 2 Mace. Great malice, backed with a great interest; yet can have no advantage of a man, but from his own expectations of something that is without him. South's Sermons. As soon as he was got to Sicily, they sent for him back; designing to take advantage, and prosecute him in the absence of his friends. Swift. 3. Opportunity; convenience. 4. Give me advantage of some brief discourse With Desdemona alone. Shakspeare. Favourable circumstances. Her beauty by the shade does get. Waller. A face, which is over-flushed, appears to advantage in the deepest scarlet; and the darkest 6. Gain; profit. For thou saidst, what advantage will it be unto thee, and what profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin? Job. Certain it is, that advantage now sits in the room of conscience, and steers all. South. 7. Overplus; something more than the mere lawful gain. We owe thee much; within this wall of flesh There is a soul counts thee her creditor, And with advantage means to pay thy love. Shakspeare. You said, you neither lend nor borrow Upon advantage. Shakspeare. 8. Preponderation on one side of the comparison. Much more should the consideration of this pattern arm us with patience against ordinary calamities; especially if we consider his example with this advantage, that though his sufferings were wholly undeserved, and not for himself but for us, yet he bore them patiently. Tillotson. To ADVANTAGE. v. a. [from the noun.] 1. To benefit. Convey what I set down to my lady: it shall advantage thee more than ever the bearing of letter did. Shakspeare. The trial hath endamag'd thee no way, Rather more honour left, and more esteem; Me nought advantag'd, missing what I aim'd. Milton. The great business of the senses being to make us take notice of what hurts or advantages the body, it is wisely ordered by nature, that pain should accompany the reception of several ideas. Locke. We should have pursued some other way, more effectual, for distressing the common enemy, and advantaging ourselves. Swift. 2. To promote; to bring forward; to gain ground to. The Stoics that opinioned the souls of wise men dwelt about the moon, and those of fools wandered about the earth, advantaged the conceit of this effect. Brown's Vulgar Errours. To ennoble it with the spirit that inspires the Royal Society, were to advantage it in one of the best capacities in which it is improveable. Glanville's Scepsis Scientifica. ADVANTAGEABLE. adj. [from advantage.] Profitable; convenient; gainful. As it is advantageable to a physician to be called to the cure of declining disease, so it is for a commander to suppress a sedition which has passed the height. Sir J. Hayward. ADVANTAGED. adj. [from To advantage.] Possessed of advantages; commodiously situate or disposed. In the most advantaged tempers, this dispo sition is but comparative; whereas the most of men labour under disadvantages, which nothing can rid them of. Glanville. ADVANTAGE GROUND. n. s. Ground VOL. 1. that gives superiority, and opportunities of annoyance or resistance. This excellent man, who stood not upon the advantage-ground before, from the time of his promotion to the archbishoprick, provoked or underwent the envy, and reproach, and malice,, of men of all qualities and conditions, who agreed in nothing else. Clarendor ADVANTAGEOUS. adj. [avantageux, Fr.] 1. Of advantage; profitable; useful; opportune; convenient. The time of sickness, or affliction, is, like the cool of the day to Adam, a season of peruliar propriety for the voice of God to be heard; and may be improved into a very advantageous opportunity of begetting or increasing spiritual life. Hammond Here perhaps, Some advantageous act may be achiev'd Milions 2. It is used with relation to persons, and followed by to. Since every painter paints himself in his own works, 'tis advantageous to him to know himself, to the end that he may cultivate those talents which make his genius. Dryden. ADVANTAGEOUSLY.adv. [from advantageous.] Conveniently; opportunely; profitably. It was advantageously situated, there being an easy passage from it to India, by sea. Arbuth ADVANTAGEOUSNESS. n. s. [from advantageous.] Quality of being advantageous; profitableness; usefulness; convenience. The last property, which qualifies God for the fittest object of our love, is the advanta geousness of his to us, both in the present and the future life. Boyle's Seraphic Love. To ADVENE. v. n. [advenio, Lat.] To accede to something; to become part of something else, without being essential; to be superadded. A cause considered in judicature, is stiled an accidental cause; and the accidental of any act, is said to be whatever advenes to the act itself already substantiated. Ayliffe's Parergon. ADVENIENT. adj. [adveniens, Lat.] Advening; coming from outward causes ; superadded. Being thus divided from truth in themselves, they are yet farther removed by advenient deception; for they are daily mocked into errour by subtler devisers. Brown's Vulgar Errors. If to suppose the soul a distinct substance from the body, and extrinsically advenient, be a great error in philosophy, almost all the world hath been mistaken. A'DVENT. n. s. [from adventus; that is, Glanville's Vanity of Dogmatism. adventus Redemptoris.] The name of one of the holy seasons, signifying the coming; that is, the coming of our Saviour; which is made the subject of our devotion during the four weeks before Christmas. Common Prayer. ADVENTINE. adj. [from advenio, adventum.] Adventitious; that is extrinsically |