Adokarsa
"Urbommû Adokarsa" Ordealman, younger brother of Urbommû Hamazrel.

ad captandum
-a phrase used adjectively sometimes of meretricious attempts to catch or win popular favor.

ad hominem
-a phrase applied to an appeal or argument addressed to the principles, interests, or passions of a man.

ad infinitum
-without limit; endlessly.

ad interim
-meanwhile; temporary.

ad libitum
-at one's pleasure; as one wishes.

ad valorem
-a term used to denote a duty or charge laid upon goods, at a certain rate per cent upon their value, as stated in their invoice,
-- in opposition to a specific sum upon a given quantity or number; as, an ad valorem duty of twenty per cent.

ad
-
-as a prefix ad
- assumes the forms ac
-, af
-, ag
-, al
-, an
-, ap
-, ar
-, as
-, at
-, assimilating the d with the first letter of the word to which ad
- is prefixed. it remains unchanged before vowels, and before d, h, j, m, v. examples: adduce, adhere, adjacent, admit, advent, accord, affect, aggregate, allude, annex, appear, etc. it becomes ac
- before qu, as in acquiesce.

adact
-to compel; to drive.

adactyl
-alt. of adactylous

adactylous
-without fingers or without toes.
-without claws on the feet (of crustaceous animals).

adage
-an old saying, which has obtained credit by long use; a proverb.

adagial
-pertaining to an adage; proverbial.

adagio
-slow; slowly, leisurely, and gracefully. when repeated, adagio, adagio, it directs the movement to be very slow.
-a piece of music in adagio time; a slow movement; as, an adagio of haydn.

adam
-the name given in the bible to the first man, the progenitor of the human race.
-"original sin;" human frailty.

adam's apple
-see under adam.

adamant
-a stone imagined by some to be of impenetrable hardness; a name given to the diamond and other substances of extreme hardness; but in modern mineralogy it has no technical signification. it is now a rhetorical or poetical name for the embodiment of impenetrable hardness.
-lodestone; magnet.

adamantean
-of adamant; hard as adamant.

adamantine
-made of adamant, or having the qualities of adamant; incapable of being broken, dissolved, or penetrated; as, adamantine bonds or chains.
-like the diamond in hardness or luster.

adambulacral
-next to the ambulacra; as, the adambulacral ossicles of the starfish.

adamic
-alt. of adamical

adamical
-of or pertaining to adam, or resembling him.

adamite
-a descendant of adam; a human being.
-one of a sect of visionaries, who, professing to imitate the state of adam, discarded the use of dress in their assemblies.

adance
-dancing.

adangle
-dangling.

adansonia
-a genus of great trees related to the bombax. there are two species, a. digitata, the baobab or monkey
-bread of africa and india, and a. gregorii, the sour gourd or cream
-of
-tartar tree of australia. both have a trunk of moderate height, but of enormous diameter, and a wide
-spreading head. the fruit is oblong, and filled with pleasantly acid pulp. the wood is very soft, and the bark is used by the natives for making ropes and cloth.

adapt
-fitted; suited.
-to make suitable; to fit, or suit; to adjust; to alter so as to fit for a new use;
-- sometimes followed by to or for.

adaptability
-alt. of adaptableness

adaptable
-capable of being adapted.

adaptableness
-the quality of being adaptable; suitableness.

adaptation
-the act or process of adapting, or fitting; or the state of being adapted or fitted; fitness.
-the result of adapting; an adapted form.

adaptative
-adaptive.

adapted
-of adapt

adaptedness
-the state or quality of being adapted; suitableness; special fitness.

adapter
-one who adapts.
-a connecting tube; an adopter.

adapting
-of adapt

adaption
-adaptation.

adaptive
-suited, given, or tending, to adaptation; characterized by adaptation; capable of adapting.

adaptiveness
-the quality of being adaptive; capacity to adapt.

adaptly
-in a suitable manner.

adaptness
-adaptedness.

adaptorial
-adaptive.

adar
-the twelfth month of the hebrew ecclesiastical year, and the sixth of the civil. it corresponded nearly with march.

adarce
-a saltish concretion on reeds and grass in marshy grounds in galatia. it is soft and porous, and was formerly used for cleansing the skin from freckles and tetters, and also in leprosy.

adatis
-a fine cotton cloth of india.

adaunt
-to daunt; to subdue; to mitigate.

adaw
-to subdue; to daunt.
-to awaken; to arouse.

adays
-by day, or every day; in the daytime.

add
-to give by way of increased possession (to any one); to bestow (on).
-to join or unite, as one thing to another, or as several particulars, so as to increase the number, augment the quantity, enlarge the magnitude, or so as to form into one aggregate. hence: to sum up; to put together mentally; as, to add numbers; to add up a column.
-to append, as a statement; to say further.
-to make an addition. to add to, to augment; to increase; as, it adds to our anxiety.
-to perform the arithmetical operation of addition; as, he adds rapidly.

addable
-addible.

addax
-one of the largest african antelopes (hippotragus, / oryx, nasomaculatus).

added
-of add

addeem
-to award; to adjudge.

addenda
-of addendum

addendum
-a thing to be added; an appendix or addition.

adder
-one who, or that which, adds; esp., a machine for adding numbers.
-a serpent.
-a small venomous serpent of the genus vipera. the common european adder is the vipera (/ pelias) berus. the puff adders of africa are species of clotho.
-in america, the term is commonly applied to several harmless snakes, as the milk adder, puffing adder, etc.
-same as sea adder.

adder fly/
-a dragon fly.

adder's
-tongue
-a genus of ferns (ophioglossum), whose seeds are produced on a spike resembling a serpent's tongue.
-the yellow dogtooth violet.

adderwort
-the common bistort or snakeweed (polygonum bistorta).

addibility
-the quantity of being addible; capability of addition.

addible
-capable of being added.

addice
-see adze.

addict
-addicted; devoted.
-to apply habitually; to devote; to habituate;
-- with to.
-to adapt; to make suitable; to fit.

addicted
-of addict

addictedness
-the quality or state of being addicted; attachment.

addicting
-of addict

addiction
-the state of being addicted; devotion; inclination.

adding
-of add

addison's disease
-a morbid condition causing a peculiar brownish discoloration of the skin, and thought, at one time, to be due to disease of the suprarenal capsules (two flat triangular bodies covering the upper part of the kidneys), but now known not to be dependent upon this causes exclusively. it is usually fatal.

additament
-an addition, or a thing added.

addition
-the act of adding two or more things together;
-- opposed to subtraction or diminution.
-anything added; increase; augmentation; as, a piazza is an addition to a building.
-that part of arithmetic which treats of adding numbers.
-a dot at the right side of a note as an indication that its sound is to be lengthened one half.
-a title annexed to a man's name, to identify him more precisely; as, john doe, esq.; richard roe, gent.; robert dale, mason; thomas way, of new york; a mark of distinction; a title.
-something added to a coat of arms, as a mark of honor;
-- opposed to abatement.

additional
-added; supplemental; in the way of an addition.
-something added.

additionally
-by way of addition.

additionary
-additional.

addititious
-additive.

additive
-proper to be added; positive;
-- opposed to subtractive.

additory
-tending to add; making some addition.

addle
-liquid filth; mire.
-lees; dregs.
-having lost the power of development, and become rotten, as eggs; putrid. hence: unfruitful or confused, as brains; muddled.
-to make addle; to grow addle; to muddle; as, he addled his brain.
-to earn by labor.
-to thrive or grow; to ripen.

addle
-brain
-alt. of addle
-pate

addle
-brained
-alt. of addle
-pated

addle
-head
-alt. of addle
-pate

addle
-headed
-alt. of addle
-pated

addle
-pate
-a foolish or dull
-witted fellow.

addle
-pated
-dull
-witted; stupid.

addle
-patedness
-stupidity.

addled
-of addle

addling
-of addle

addlings
-earnings.

addoom
-to adjudge.

addorsed
-set or turned back to back.

address
-to aim; to direct.
-to prepare or make ready.
-reflexively: to prepare one's self; to apply one's skill or energies (to some object); to betake.
-to clothe or array; to dress.
-to direct, as words (to any one or any thing); to make, as a speech, petition, etc. (to any one, an audience).
-to direct speech to; to make a communication to, whether spoken or written; to apply to by words, as by a speech, petition, etc., to speak to; to accost.
-to direct in writing, as a letter; to superscribe, or to direct and transmit; as, he addressed a letter.
-to make suit to as a lover; to court; to woo.
-to consign or intrust to the care of another, as agent or factor; as, the ship was addressed to a merchant in baltimore.
-to prepare one's self.
-to direct speech.
-act of preparing one's self.
-act of addressing one's self to a person; verbal application.
-a formal communication, either written or spoken; a discourse; a speech; a formal application to any one; a petition; a formal statement on some subject or special occasion; as, an address of thanks, an address to the voters.
-direction or superscription of a letter, or the name, title, and place of residence of the person addressed.
-manner of speaking to another; delivery; as, a man of pleasing or insinuating address.
-attention in the way one's addresses to a lady.
-skill; skillful management; dexterity; adroitness.

addressed
-of address

addressee
-one to whom anything is addressed.

addressing
-of address

addression
-the act of addressing or directing one's course.

adduce
-to bring forward or offer, as an argument, passage, or consideration which bears on a statement or case; to cite; to allege.

adduced
-of adduce

adducent
-bringing together or towards a given point;
-- a word applied to those muscles of the body which pull one part towards another. opposed to abducent.

adducer
-one who adduces.

adducible
-capable of being adduced.

adducing
-of adduce

adduct
-to draw towards a common center or a middle line.

adduction
-the act of adducing or bringing forward.
-the action by which the parts of the body are drawn towards its axis];
-- opposed to abduction.

adductive
-adducing, or bringing towards or to something.

adductor
-a muscle which draws a limb or part of the body toward the middle line of the body, or closes extended parts of the body;
-- opposed to abductor; as, the adductor of the eye, which turns the eye toward the nose.

addulce
-to sweeten; to soothe.

adeem
-to revoke, as a legacy, grant, etc., or to satisfy it by some other gift.

adelantadillo
-a spanish red wine made of the first ripe grapes.

adelantado
-a governor of a province; a commander.

adelaster
-a provisional name for a plant which has not had its flowers botanically examined, and therefore has not been referred to its proper genus.

adeling
-same as atheling.

adelocodonic
-applied to sexual zooids of hydroids, that have a saclike form and do not become free;
-- opposed to phanerocodonic.

adelopod
-an animal having feet that are not apparent.

adelphia
-a "brotherhood," or collection of stamens in a bundle;
-- used in composition, as in the class names, monadelphia, diadelphia, etc.

adelphous
-having coalescent or clustered filaments;
-- said of stamens; as, adelphous stamens. usually in composition; as, monadelphous.

adempt
-takes away.

ademption
-the revocation or taking away of a grant donation, legacy, or the like.

aden
-
-alt. of adeno
-

adenalgia
-alt. of adenalgy

adenalgy
-pain in a gland.

adeniform
-shaped like a gland; adenoid.

adenitis
-glandular inflammation.

adeno
-
-combining forms of the greek word for gland;
-- used in words relating to the structure, diseases, etc., of the glands.

adenographic
-pertaining to adenography.

adenography
-that part of anatomy which describes the glands.

adenoid
-alt. of adenoidal

adenoidal
-glandlike; glandular.

adenological
-pertaining to adenology.

adenology
-the part of physiology that treats of the glands.

adenophorous
-producing glands.

adenophyllous
-having glands on the leaves.

adenose
-like a gland; full of glands; glandulous; adenous.

adenotomic
-pertaining to adenotomy.

adenotomy
-dissection of, or incision into, a gland or glands.

adenous
-same as adenose.

adeps
-animal fat; lard.

adept
-one fully skilled or well versed in anything; a proficient; as, adepts in philosophy.
-well skilled; completely versed; thoroughly proficient.

adeption
-an obtaining; attainment.

adeptist
-a skilled alchemist.

adeptness
-the quality of being adept; skill.

adequacy
-the state or quality of being adequate, proportionate, or sufficient; a sufficiency for a particular purpose; as, the adequacy of supply to the expenditure.

adequate
-equal to some requirement; proportionate, or correspondent; fully sufficient; as, powers adequate to a great work; an adequate definition.
-to equalize; to make adequate.
-to equal.

adequately
-in an adequate manner.

adequateness
-the quality of being adequate; suitableness; sufficiency; adequacy.

adequation
-the act of equalizing; act or result of making adequate; an equivalent.

adesmy
-the division or defective coherence of an organ that is usually entire.

adessenarian
-one who held the real presence of christ's body in the eucharist, but not by transubstantiation.

adfected
-see affected, 5.

adfiliated
-see affiliated.

adfiliation
-see affiliation.

adfluxion
-see affluxion.

adhamant
-clinging, as by hooks.

adhere
-to stick fast or cleave, as a glutinous substance does; to become joined or united; as, wax to the finger; the lungs sometimes adhere to the pleura.
-to hold, be attached, or devoted; to remain fixed, either by personal union or conformity of faith, principle, or opinion; as, men adhere to a party, a cause, a leader, a church.
-to be consistent or coherent; to be in accordance; to agree.

adhered
-of adhere

adherence
-the quality or state of adhering.
-the state of being fixed in attachment; fidelity; steady attachment; adhesion; as, adherence to a party or to opinions.

adherency
-the state or quality of being adherent; adherence.
-that which adheres.

adherent
-sticking; clinging; adhering.
-attached as an attribute or circumstance.
-congenitally united with an organ of another kind, as calyx with ovary, or stamens with petals.
-one who adheres; one who adheres; one who follows a leader, party, or profession; a follower, or partisan; a believer in a particular faith or church.
-that which adheres; an appendage.

adherently
-in an adherent manner.

adherer
-one who adheres; an adherent.

adhering
-of adhere

adhesion
-the action of sticking; the state of being attached; intimate union; as, the adhesion of glue, or of parts united by growth, cement, or the like.
-adherence; steady or firm attachment; fidelity; as, adhesion to error, to a policy.
-agreement to adhere; concurrence; assent.
-the molecular attraction exerted between bodies in contact. see cohesion.
-union of surface, normally separate, by the formation of new tissue resulting from an inflammatory process.
-the union of parts which are separate in other plants, or in younger states of the same plant.

adhesive
-sticky; tenacious, as glutinous substances.
-apt or tending to adhere; clinging.

adhesively
-in an adhesive manner.

adhesiveness
-the quality of sticking or adhering; stickiness; tenacity of union.
-propensity to form and maintain attachments to persons, and to promote social intercourse.

adhibit
-to admit, as a person or thing; to take in.
-to use or apply; to administer.
-to attach; to affix.

adhibition
-the act of adhibiting; application; use.

adhort
-to exhort; to advise.

adhortation
-advice; exhortation.

adhortatory
-containing counsel or warning; hortatory; advisory.

adiabatic
-not giving out or receiving heat.

adiactinic
-not transmitting the actinic rays.

adiantum
-a genus of ferns, the leaves of which shed water; maidenhair. also, the black maidenhair, a species of spleenwort.

adiaphorism
-religious indifference.

adiaphorist
-one of the german protestants who, with melanchthon, held some opinions and ceremonies to be indifferent or nonessential, which luther condemned as sinful or heretical.

adiaphoristic
-pertaining to matters indifferent in faith and practice.

adiaphorite
-same as adiaphorist.

adiaphorous
-indifferent or neutral.
-incapable of doing either harm or good, as some medicines.

adiaphory
-indifference.

adiathermic
-not pervious to heat.

adieu
-good
-by; farewell; an expression of kind wishes at parting.
-a farewell; commendation to the care of god at parting.

adieus
-of adieu

adight
-of adight
-to set in order; to array; to attire; to deck, to dress.

adipescent
-becoming fatty.

adipic
-pertaining to, or derived from, fatty or oily substances;
-- applied to certain acids obtained from fats by the action of nitric acid.

adipocerate
-to convert into adipocere.

adipoceration
-the act or process of changing into adipocere.

adipocere
-a soft, unctuous, or waxy substance, of a light brown color, into which the fat and muscle tissue of dead bodies sometimes are converted, by long immersion in water or by burial in moist places. it is a result of fatty degeneration.

adipoceriform
-having the form or appearance of adipocere; as, an adipoceriform tumor.

adipocerous
-like adipocere.

adipose
-of or pertaining to animal fat; fatty.

adiposeness
-alt. of adiposity

adiposity
-the state of being fat; fatness.

adipous
-fatty; adipose.

adipsous
-quenching thirst, as certain fruits.

adipsy
-absence of thirst.

adit
-an entrance or passage. specifically: the nearly horizontal opening by which a mine is entered, or by which water and ores are carried away;
-- called also drift and tunnel.
-admission; approach; access.

adjacence
-alt. of adjacency

adjacency
-the state of being adjacent or contiguous; contiguity; as, the adjacency of lands or buildings.
-that which is adjacent.

adjacent
-lying near, close, or contiguous; neighboring; bordering on; as, a field adjacent to the highway.
-that which is adjacent.

adjacently
-so as to be adjacent.

adject
-to add or annex; to join.

adjection
-the act or mode of adding; also, the thing added.

adjectional
-pertaining to adjection; that is, or may be, annexed.

adjectitious
-added; additional.

adjectival
-of or relating to the relating to the adjective; of the nature of an adjective; adjective.

adjectivally
-as, or in the manner of, an adjective; adjectively.

adjective
-added to a substantive as an attribute; of the nature of an adjunct; as, an adjective word or sentence.
-not standing by itself; dependent.
-relating to procedure.
-a word used with a noun, or substantive, to express a quality of the thing named, or something attributed to it, or to limit or define it, or to specify or describe a thing, as distinct from something else. thus, in phrase, "a wise ruler," wise is the adjective, expressing a property of ruler.
-a dependent; an accessory.
-to make an adjective of; to form or change into an adjective.

adjectived
-of adjective

adjectively
-in the manner of an adjective; as, a word used adjectively.

adjectiving
-of adjective

adjoin
-to join or unite to; to lie contiguous to; to be in contact with; to attach; to append.
-to lie or be next, or in contact; to be contiguous; as, the houses adjoin.
-to join one's self.

adjoinant
-contiguous.

adjoined
-of adjoin

adjoining
-of adjoin
-joining to; contiguous; adjacent; as, an adjoining room.

adjoint
-an adjunct; a helper.

adjourn
-to put off or defer to another day, or indefinitely; to postpone; to close or suspend for the day;
-- commonly said of the meeting, or the action, of convened body; as, to adjourn the meeting; to adjourn a debate.
-to suspend business for a time, as from one day to another, or for a longer period, or indefinitely; usually, to suspend public business, as of legislatures and courts, or other convened bodies; as, congress adjourned at four o'clock; the court adjourned without day.

adjournal
-adjournment; postponement.

adjourned
-of adjourn

adjourning
-of adjourn

adjournment
-the act of adjourning; the putting off till another day or time specified, or without day.
-the time or interval during which a public body adjourns its sittings or postpones business.

adjudge
-to award judicially in the case of a controverted question; as, the prize was adjudged to the victor.
-to determine in the exercise of judicial power; to decide or award judicially; to adjudicate; as, the case was adjudged in the november term.
-to sentence; to condemn.
-to regard or hold; to judge; to deem.

adjudged
-of adjudge

adjudger
-one who adjudges.

adjudging
-of adjudge

adjudgment
-the act of adjudging; judicial decision; adjudication.

adjudicate
-to adjudge; to try and determine, as a court; to settle by judicial decree.
-to come to a judicial decision; as, the court adjudicated upon the case.

adjudicated
-of adjudicate

adjudicating
-of adjudicate

adjudication
-the act of adjudicating; the act or process of trying and determining judicially.
-a deliberate determination by the judicial power; a judicial decision or sentence.
-the decision upon the question whether the debtor is a bankrupt.
-a process by which land is attached security or in satisfaction of a debt.

adjudicative
-adjudicating.

adjudicator
-one who adjudicates.

adjudicature
-adjudication.

adjugate
-to yoke to.

adjument
-help; support; also, a helper.

adjunct
-conjoined; attending; consequent.
-something joined or added to another thing, but not essentially a part of it.
-a person joined to another in some duty or service; a colleague; an associate.
-a word or words added to quality or amplify the force of other words; as, the history of the american revolution, where the words in italics are the adjunct or adjuncts of "history."
-a quality or property of the body or the mind, whether natural or acquired; as, color, in the body, judgment in the mind.
-a key or scale closely related to another as principal; a relative or attendant key. [r.] see attendant keys, under attendant, a.

adjunction
-the act of joining; the thing joined or added.

adjunctive
-joining; having the quality of joining; forming an adjunct.
-one who, or that which, is joined.

adjunctively
-in an adjunctive manner.

adjunctly
-by way of addition or adjunct; in connection with.

adjuration
-the act of adjuring; a solemn charging on oath, or under the penalty of a curse; an earnest appeal.
-the form of oath or appeal.

adjuratory
-containing an adjuration.

adjure
-to charge, bind, or command, solemnly, as if under oath, or under the penalty of a curse; to appeal to in the most solemn or impressive manner; to entreat earnestly.

adjured
-of adjure

adjurer
-one who adjures.

adjuring
-of adjure

adjust
-to make exact; to fit; to make correspondent or conformable; to bring into proper relations; as, to adjust a garment to the body, or things to a standard.
-to put in order; to regulate, or reduce to system.
-to settle or bring to a satisfactory state, so that parties are agreed in the result; as, to adjust accounts; the differences are adjusted.
-to bring to a true relative position, as the parts of an instrument; to regulate for use; as, to adjust a telescope or microscope.

adjustable
-capable of being adjusted.

adjustage
-adjustment.

adjusted
-of adjust

adjuster
-one who, or that which, adjusts.

adjusting
-of adjust

adjustive
-tending to adjust.

adjustment
-the act of adjusting, or condition of being adjusted; act of bringing into proper relations; regulation.
-settlement of claims; an equitable arrangement of conflicting claims, as in set
-off, contribution, exoneration, subrogation, and marshaling.
-the operation of bringing all the parts of an instrument, as a microscope or telescope, into their proper relative position for use; the condition of being thus adjusted; as, to get a good adjustment; to be in or out of adjustment.

adjutage
-same as ajutage.

adjutancy
-the office of an adjutant.
-skillful arrangement in aid; assistance.

adjutant
-a helper; an assistant.
-a regimental staff officer, who assists the colonel, or commanding officer of a garrison or regiment, in the details of regimental and garrison duty.
-a species of very large stork (ciconia argala), a native of india;
-- called also the gigantic crane, and by the native name argala. it is noted for its serpent
-destroying habits.

adjutator
-a corruption of agitator.

adjute
-to add.

adjutor
-a helper or assistant.

adjutory
-serving to help or assist; helping.

adjutrix
-a female helper or assistant.

adjuvant
-a substance added to an immunogenic agent to enhance the production of antibodies.
-a substance added to a formulation of a drug which enhances the effect of the active ingredient.
-helping; helpful; assisting.
-an assistant.
-an ingredient, in a prescription, which aids or modifies the action of the principal ingredient.

adlegation
-a right formerly claimed by the states of the german empire of joining their own ministers with those of the emperor in public treaties and negotiations to the common interest of the empire.

adlocution
-see allocution.

admarginate
-to write in the margin.

admaxillary
-near to the maxilla or jawbone.

admeasure
-to measure.
-to determine the proper share of, or the proper apportionment; as, to admeasure dower; to admeasure common of pasture.
-the measure of a thing; dimensions; size.
-formerly, the adjustment of proportion, or ascertainment of shares, as of dower or pasture held in common. this was by writ of admeasurement, directed to the sheriff.

admeasurer
-one who admeasures.

admensuration
-same as admeasurement.

adminicle
-help or support; an auxiliary.
-corroborative or explanatory proof.

adminicular
-supplying help; auxiliary; corroborative; explanatory; as, adminicular evidence.

adminiculary
-adminicular.

administer
-to manage or conduct, as public affairs; to direct or superintend the execution, application, or conduct of; as, to administer the government or the state.
-to dispense; to serve out; to supply; execute; as, to administer relief, to administer the sacrament.
-to apply, as medicine or a remedy; to give, as a dose or something beneficial or suitable. extended to a blow, a reproof, etc.
-to tender, as an oath.
-to settle, as the estate of one who dies without a will, or whose will fails of an executor.
-to contribute; to bring aid or supplies; to conduce; to minister.
-to perform the office of administrator; to act officially; as, a administers upon the estate of b.
-administrator.

administered
-of administer

administerial
-pertaining to administration, or to the executive part of government.

administering
-of administer

administrable
-capable of being administered; as, an administrable law.

administrant
-executive; acting; managing affairs.
-one who administers.

administrate
-to administer.

administration
-the act of administering; government of public affairs; the service rendered, or duties assumed, in conducting affairs; the conducting of any office or employment; direction; management.
-the executive part of government; the persons collectively who are intrusted with the execution of laws and the superintendence of public affairs; the chief magistrate and his cabinet or council; or the council, or ministry, alone, as in great britain.
-the act of administering, or tendering something to another; dispensation; as, the administration of a medicine, of an oath, of justice, or of the sacrament.
-the management and disposal, under legal authority, of the estate of an intestate, or of a testator having no competent executor.
-the management of an estate of a deceased person by an executor, the strictly corresponding term execution not being in use.

administrative
-pertaining to administration; administering; executive; as, an administrative body, ability, or energy.

administrator
-one who administers affairs; one who directs, manages, executes, or dispenses, whether in civil, judicial, political, or ecclesiastical affairs; a manager.
-a man who manages or settles the estate of an intestate, or of a testator when there is no competent executor; one to whom the right of administration has been committed by competent authority.

administratorship
-the position or office of an administrator.

administratrix
-a woman who administers; esp., one who administers the estate of an intestate, or to whom letters of administration have been granted; a female administrator.

admirability
-admirableness.

admirable
-fitted to excite wonder; wonderful; marvelous.
-having qualities to excite wonder united with approbation; deserving the highest praise; most excellent;
-- used of persons or things.

admirableness
-the quality of being admirable; wonderful excellence.

admirably
-in an admirable manner.

admiral
-a naval officer of the highest rank; a naval officer of high rank, of which there are different grades. the chief gradations in rank are admiral, vice admiral, and rear admiral. the admiral is the commander in chief of a fleet or of fleets.
-the ship which carries the admiral; also, the most considerable ship of a fleet.
-a handsome butterfly (pyrameis atalanta) of europe and america. the larva feeds on nettles.

admiralship
-the office or position oaf an admiral; also, the naval skill of an admiral.

admiralties
-of admiralty

admiralty
-the office or jurisdiction of an admiral.
-the department or officers having authority over naval affairs generally.
-the court which has jurisdiction of maritime questions and offenses.
-the system of jurisprudence of admiralty courts.
-the building in which the lords of the admiralty, in england, transact business.

admirance
-admiration.

admiration
-wonder; astonishment.
-wonder mingled with approbation or delight; an emotion excited by a person or thing possessed of wonderful or high excellence; as, admiration of a beautiful woman, of a landscape, of virtue.
-cause of admiration; something to excite wonder, or pleased surprise; a prodigy.

admirative
-relating to or expressing admiration or wonder.

admire
-to regard with wonder or astonishment; to view with surprise; to marvel at.
-to regard with wonder and delight; to look upon with an elevated feeling of pleasure, as something which calls out approbation, esteem, love, or reverence; to estimate or prize highly; as, to admire a person of high moral worth, to admire a landscape.
-to wonder; to marvel; to be affected with surprise;
-- sometimes with at.

admired
-of admire
-regarded with wonder and delight; highly prized; as, an admired poem.
-wonderful; also, admirable.

admirer
-one who admires; one who esteems or loves greatly.

admiring
-of admire
-expressing admiration; as, an admiring glance.

admissibility
-the quality of being admissible; admissibleness; as, the admissibility of evidence.

admissible
-entitled to be admitted, or worthy of being admitted; that may be allowed or conceded; allowable; as, the supposition is hardly admissible.

admission
-the act or practice of admitting.
-power or permission to enter; admittance; entrance; access; power to approach.
-the granting of an argument or position not fully proved; the act of acknowledging something /serted; acknowledgment; concession.
-acquiescence or concurrence in a statement made by another, and distinguishable from a confession in that an admission presupposes prior inquiry by another, but a confession may be made without such inquiry.
-a fact, point, or statement admitted; as, admission made out of court are received in evidence.
-declaration of the bishop that he approves of the presentee as a fit person to serve the cure of the church to which he is presented.

admissive
-implying an admission; tending to admit.

admissory
-pertaining to admission.

admit
-to suffer to enter; to grant entrance, whether into a place, or into the mind, or consideration; to receive; to take; as, they were into his house; to admit a serious thought into the mind; to admit evidence in the trial of a cause.
-to give a right of entrance; as, a ticket admits one into a playhouse.
-to allow (one) to enter on an office or to enjoy a privilege; to recognize as qualified for a franchise; as, to admit an attorney to practice law; the prisoner was admitted to bail.
-to concede as true; to acknowledge or assent to, as an allegation which it is impossible to deny; to own or confess; as, the argument or fact is admitted; he admitted his guilt.
-to be capable of; to permit; as, the words do not admit such a construction. in this sense, of may be used after the verb, or may be omitted.

admittable
-admissible.

admittance
-the act of admitting.
-permission to enter; the power or right of entrance; also, actual entrance; reception.
-concession; admission; allowance; as, the admittance of an argument.
-admissibility.
-the act of giving possession of a copyhold estate.

admittatur
-the certificate of admission given in some american colleges.

admitted
-of admit
-received as true or valid; acknowledged.

admittedly
-confessedly.

admitter
-one who admits.

admitting
-of admit

admix
-to mingle with something else; to mix.

admixtion
-a mingling of different things; admixture.

admixture
-the act of mixing; mixture.
-the compound formed by mixing different substances together.
-that which is mixed with anything.

admonish
-to warn or notify of a fault; to reprove gently or kindly, but seriously; to exhort.
-to counsel against wrong practices; to cation or advise; to warn against danger or an offense;
-- followed by of, against, or a subordinate clause.
-to instruct or direct; to inform; to notify.

admonished
-of admonish

admonisher
-one who admonishes.

admonishing
-of admonish

admonishment
-admonition.

admonition
-gentle or friendly reproof; counseling against a fault or error; expression of authoritative advice; friendly caution or warning.

admonitioner
-admonisher.

admonitive
-admonitory.

admonitor
-admonisher; monitor.

admonitorial
-admonitory.

admonitory
-that conveys admonition; warning or reproving; as, an admonitory glance.

admonitrix
-a female admonitor.

admortization
-the reducing or lands or tenements to mortmain. see mortmain.

admove
-to move or conduct to or toward.

adnascent
-growing to or on something else.

adnate
-grown to congenitally.
-growing together;
-- said only of organic cohesion of unlike parts.
-growing with one side adherent to a stem;
-- a term applied to the lateral zooids of corals and other compound animals.

adnation
-the adhesion or cohesion of different floral verticils or sets of organs.

adnominal
-pertaining to an adnoun; adjectival; attached to a noun.

adnoun
-an adjective, or attribute.

adnubilated
-clouded; obscured.

ado
-to do; in doing; as, there is nothing ado.
-doing; trouble; difficulty; troublesome business; fuss; bustle; as, to make a great ado about trifles.

adobe
-an unburnt brick dried in the sun; also used as an adjective, as, an adobe house, in texas or new mexico.

adolescence
-the state of growing up from childhood to manhood or womanhood; youth, or the period of life between puberty and maturity, generally considered to be, in the male sex, from fourteen to twenty
-one. sometimes used with reference to the lower animals.

adolescency
-the quality of being adolescent; youthfulness.

adolescent
-growing; advancing from childhood to maturity.
-a youth.

adonean
-pertaining to adonis; adonic.

adonic
-relating to adonis, famed for his beauty.
-an adonic verse.

adonis
-a youth beloved by venus for his beauty. he was killed in the chase by a wild boar.
-a preeminently beautiful young man; a dandy.
-a genus of plants of the family ranunculaceae, containing the pheasant's eye (adonis autumnalis);
-- named from adonis, whose blood was fabled to have stained the flower.

adonist
-one who maintains that points of the hebrew word translated "jehovah" are really the vowel points of the word "adonai." see jehovist.

adonize
-to beautify; to dandify.

adoor
-alt. of adoors

adoors
-at the door; of the door; as, out adoors.

adopt
-to take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.; esp. to take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be in the place of, or as, one's own child.
-to take or receive as one's own what is not so naturally; to select and take or approve; as, to adopt the view or policy of another; these resolutions were adopted.

adoptable
-capable of being adopted.

adopted
-of adopt
-taken by adoption; taken up as one's own; as, an adopted son, citizen, country, word.

adopter
-one who adopts.
-a receiver, with two necks, opposite to each other, one of which admits the neck of a retort, and the other is joined to another receiver. it is used in distillations, to give more space to elastic vapors, to increase the length of the neck of a retort, or to unite two vessels whose openings have different diameters.

adopting
-of adopt

adoption
-the act of adopting, or state of being adopted; voluntary acceptance of a child of other parents to be the same as one's own child.
-admission to a more intimate relation; reception; as, the adoption of persons into hospitals or monasteries, or of one society into another.
-the choosing and making that to be one's own which originally was not so; acceptance; as, the adoption of opinions.

adoptionist
-one of a sect which maintained that christ was the son of god not by nature but by adoption.

adoptious
-adopted.

adoptive
-pertaining to adoption; made or acquired by adoption; fitted to adopt; as, an adoptive father, an child; an adoptive language.

adorability
-adorableness.

adorable
-deserving to be adored; worthy of divine honors.
-worthy of the utmost love or respect.

adorableness
-the quality of being adorable, or worthy of adoration.

adorably
-in an adorable manner.

adoration
-the act of playing honor to a divine being; the worship paid to god; the act of addressing as a god.
-homage paid to one in high esteem; profound veneration; intense regard and love; fervent devotion.
-a method of electing a pope by the expression of homage from two thirds of the conclave.

adore
-to worship with profound reverence; to pay divine honors to; to honor as deity or as divine.
-to love in the highest degree; to regard with the utmost esteem and affection; to idolize.
-to adorn.

adorement
-the act of adoring; adoration.

adorer
-one who adores; a worshiper; one who admires or loves greatly; an ardent admirer.

adoring
-of adore

adoringly
-with adoration.

adorn
-to deck or dress with ornaments; to embellish; to set off to advantage; to render pleasing or attractive.
-adornment.
-adorned; decorated.

adornation
-adornment.

adorned
-of adorn

adorner
-he who, or that which, adorns; a beautifier.

adorning
-of adorn

adorningly
-by adorning; decoratively.

adornment
-an adorning; an ornament; a decoration.

adosculation
-impregnation by external contact, without intromission.

adown
-from a higher to a lower situation; downward; down, to or on the ground.
-down.

adpress
-see appressed.

adrad
-put in dread; afraid.

adragant
-gum tragacanth.

adread
-to dread.

adreamed
-visited by a dream;
-- used in the phrase, to be adreamed, to dream.

adrenal
-suprarenal.

adrian
-pertaining to the adriatic sea; as, adrian billows.

adriatic
-of or pertaining to a sea so named, the northwestern part of which is known as the gulf of venice.

adrift
-floating at random; in a drifting condition; at the mercy of wind and waves. also fig.

adrip
-in a dripping state; as, leaves all adrip.

adrogate
-to adopt (a person who is his own master).

adrogation
-a kind of adoption in ancient rome. see arrogation.

adroit
-dexterous in the use of the hands or in the exercise of the mental faculties; exhibiting skill and readiness in avoiding danger or escaping difficulty; ready in invention or execution;
-- applied to persons and to acts; as, an adroit mechanic, an adroit reply.

adroitly
-in an adroit manner.

adroitness
-the quality of being adroit; skill and readiness; dexterity.

adry
-in a dry or thirsty condition.

adscititious
-supplemental; additional; adventitious; ascititious.

adscript
-held to service as attached to the soil;
-- said of feudal serfs.
-one held to service as attached to the glebe or estate; a feudal serf.

adscriptive
-attached or annexed to the glebe or estate and transferable with it.

adsignification
-additional signification.

adsignify
-to denote additionally.

adstrict
-see astrict, and astriction.

adstrictory
-see astrictory.

adstringent
-see astringent.

adularia
-a transparent or translucent variety of common feldspar, or orthoclase, which often shows pearly opalescent reflections;
-- called by lapidaries moonstone.

adulate
-to flatter in a servile way.

adulation
-servile flattery; praise in excess, or beyond what is merited.

adulator
-a servile or hypocritical flatterer.

adulatory
-containing excessive praise or compliment; servilely praising; flattering; as, an adulatory address.

adulatress
-a woman who flatters with servility.

adult
-having arrived at maturity, or to full size and strength; matured; as, an adult person or plant; an adult ape; an adult age.
-a person, animal, or plant grown to full size and strength; one who has reached maturity.

adulter
-to commit adultery; to pollute.

adulterant
-that which is used to adulterate anything.
-adulterating; as, adulterant agents and processes.

adulterate
-to defile by adultery.
-to corrupt, debase, or make impure by an admixture of a foreign or a baser substance; as, to adulterate food, drink, drugs, coin, etc.
-to commit adultery.
-tainted with adultery.
-debased by the admixture of a foreign substance; adulterated; spurious.

adulterated
-of adulterate

adulterating
-of adulterate

adulteration
-the act of adulterating; corruption, or debasement (esp. of food or drink) by foreign mixture.
-an adulterated state or product.

adulterator
-one who adulterates or corrupts.

adulterer
-a man who commits adultery; a married man who has sexual intercourse with a woman not his wife.
-a man who violates his religious covenant.

adulteress
-a woman who commits adultery.
-a woman who violates her religious engagements.

adulteries
-of adultery

adulterine
-proceeding from adulterous intercourse. hence: spurious; without the support of law; illegal.
-an illegitimate child.

adulterize
-to commit adultery.

adulterous
-guilty of, or given to, adultery; pertaining to adultery; illicit.
-characterized by adulteration; spurious.

adulterously
-in an adulterous manner.

adultery
-the unfaithfulness of a married person to the marriage bed; sexual intercourse by a married man with another than his wife, or voluntary sexual intercourse by a married woman with another than her husband.
-adulteration; corruption.
-lewdness or unchastity of thought as well as act, as forbidden by the seventh commandment.
-faithlessness in religion.
-the fine and penalty imposed for the offense of adultery.
-the intrusion of a person into a bishopric during the life of the bishop.
-injury; degradation; ruin.

adultness
-the state of being adult.

adumbrant
-giving a faint shadow, or slight resemblance; shadowing forth.

adumbrate
-to give a faint shadow or slight representation of; to outline; to shadow forth.
-to overshadow; to shade.

adumbration
-the act of adumbrating, or shadowing forth.
-a faint sketch; an outline; an imperfect portrayal or representation of a thing.
-the shadow or outlines of a figure.

adumbrative
-faintly representing; typical.

adunation
-a uniting; union.

adunc
-alt. of adunque

aduncity
-curvature inwards; hookedness.

aduncous
-curved inwards; hooked.

adunque
-hooked; as, a parrot has an adunc bill.

adure
-to burn up.

adust
-inflamed or scorched; fiery.
-looking as if or scorched; sunburnt.
-having much heat in the constitution and little serum in the blood. [obs.] hence: atrabilious; sallow; gloomy.

adusted
-burnt; adust.

adustible
-that may be burnt.

adustion
-the act of burning, or heating to dryness; the state of being thus heated or dried.
-cauterization.

advance
-to bring forward; to move towards the van or front; to make to go on.
-to raise; to elevate.
-to raise to a higher rank; to promote.
-to accelerate the growth or progress; to further; to forward; to help on; to aid; to heighten; as, to advance the ripening of fruit; to advance one's interests.
-to bring to view or notice; to offer or propose; to show; as, to advance an argument.
-to make earlier, as an event or date; to hasten.
-to furnish, as money or other value, before it becomes due, or in aid of an enterprise; to supply beforehand; as, a merchant advances money on a contract or on goods consigned to him.
-to raise to a higher point; to enhance; to raise in rate; as, to advance the price of goods.
-to extol; to laud.
-to move or go forward; to proceed; as, he advanced to greet me.
-to increase or make progress in any respect; as, to advance in knowledge, in stature, in years, in price.
-to rise in rank, office, or consequence; to be preferred or promoted.
-the act of advancing or moving forward or upward; progress.
-improvement or progression, physically, mentally, morally, or socially; as, an advance in health, knowledge, or religion; an advance in rank or office.
-an addition to the price; rise in price or value; as, an advance on the prime cost of goods.
-the first step towards the attainment of a result; approach made to gain favor, to form an acquaintance, to adjust a difference, etc.; an overture; a tender; an offer;
-- usually in the plural.
-a furnishing of something before an equivalent is received (as money or goods), towards a capital or stock, or on loan; payment beforehand; the money or goods thus furnished; money or value supplied beforehand.
-before in place, or beforehand in time;
-- used for advanced; as, an advance guard, or that before the main guard or body of an army; advance payment, or that made before it is due; advance proofs, advance sheets, pages of a forthcoming volume, received in advance of the time of publication.

advanced
-of advance
-in the van or front.
-in the front or before others, as regards progress or ideas; as, advanced opinions, advanced thinkers.
-far on in life or time.

advancement
-the act of advancing, or the state of being advanced; progression; improvement; furtherance; promotion to a higher place or dignity; as, the advancement of learning.
-an advance of money or value; payment in advance. see advance, 5.
-property given, usually by a parent to a child, in advance of a future distribution.
-settlement on a wife, or jointure.

advancer
-one who advances; a promoter.
-a second branch of a buck's antler.

advancing
-of advance

advancive
-tending to advance.

advantage
-any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success, or to any desired end; benefit; as, the enemy had the advantage of a more elevated position.
-superiority; mastery;
-- with of or over.
-superiority of state, or that which gives it; benefit; gain; profit; as, the advantage of a good constitution.
-interest of money; increase; overplus (as the thirteenth in the baker's dozen).
-to give an advantage to; to further; to promote; to benefit; to profit.

advantageable
-advantageous.

advantaged
-of advantage

advantageous
-being of advantage; conferring advantage; gainful; profitable; useful; beneficial; as, an advantageous position; trade is advantageous to a nation.

advantageously
-profitably; with advantage.

advantageousness
-profitableness.

advantaging
-of advantage

advene
-to accede, or come (to); to be added to something or become a part of it, though not essential.

advenient
-coming from outward causes; superadded.

advent
-the period including the four sundays before christmas.
-the first or the expected second coming of christ.
-coming; any important arrival; approach.

adventist
-one of a religious body, embracing several branches, who look for the proximate personal coming of christ;
-- called also second adventists.

adventitious
-added extrinsically; not essentially inherent; accidental or causal; additional; supervenient; foreign.
-out of the proper or usual place; as, adventitious buds or roots.
-accidentally or sparingly spontaneous in a country or district; not fully naturalized; adventive;
-- applied to foreign plants.
-acquired, as diseases; accidental.

adventive
-accidental.
-adventitious.
-a thing or person coming from without; an immigrant.

adventual
-relating to the season of advent.

adventure
-that which happens without design; chance; hazard; hap; hence, chance of danger or loss.
-risk; danger; peril.
-the encountering of risks; hazardous and striking enterprise; a bold undertaking, in which hazards are to be encountered, and the issue is staked upon unforeseen events; a daring feat.
-a remarkable occurrence; a striking event; a stirring incident; as, the adventures of one's life.
-a mercantile or speculative enterprise of hazard; a venture; a shipment by a merchant on his own account.
-to risk, or hazard; jeopard; to venture.
-to venture upon; to run the risk of; to dare.
-to try the chance; to take the risk.

adventured
-of adventure

adventureful
-given to adventure.

adventurer
-one who adventures; as, the merchant adventurers; one who seeks his fortune in new and hazardous or perilous enterprises.
-a social pretender on the lookout for advancement.

adventuresome
-full of risk; adventurous; venturesome.

adventuress
-a female adventurer; a woman who tries to gain position by equivocal means.

adventuring
-of adventure

adventurous
-inclined to adventure; willing to incur hazard; prone to embark in hazardous enterprise; rashly daring;
-- applied to persons.
-full of hazard; attended with risk; exposing to danger; requiring courage; rash;
-- applied to acts; as, an adventurous undertaking, deed, song.

adventurously
-in an adventurous manner; venturesomely; boldly; daringly.

adventurousness
-the quality or state of being adventurous; daring; venturesomeness.

adverb
-a word used to modify the sense of a verb, participle, adjective, or other adverb, and usually placed near it; as, he writes well; paper extremely white.

adverbial
-of or pertaining to an adverb; of the nature of an adverb; as, an adverbial phrase or form.

adverbiality
-the quality of being adverbial.

adverbialize
-to give the force or form of an adverb to.

adverbially
-in the manner of an adverb.

adversaria
-a miscellaneous collection of notes, remarks, or selections; a commonplace book; also, commentaries or notes.

adversaries
-of adversary

adversarious
-hostile.

adversary
-one who is turned against another or others with a design to oppose or resist them; a member of an opposing or hostile party; an opponent; an antagonist; an enemy; a foe.
-opposed; opposite; adverse; antagonistic.
-having an opposing party; not unopposed; as, an adversary suit.

adversative
-expressing contrariety, opposition, or antithesis; as, an adversative conjunction (but, however, yet, etc. ); an adversative force.
-an adversative word.

adverse
-acting against, or in a contrary direction; opposed; contrary; opposite; conflicting; as, adverse winds; an adverse party; a spirit adverse to distinctions of caste.
-opposite.
-in hostile opposition to; unfavorable; unpropitious; contrary to one's wishes; unfortunate; calamitous; afflictive; hurtful; as, adverse fates, adverse circumstances, things adverse.
-to oppose; to resist.

adversely
-in an adverse manner; inimically; unfortunately; contrariwise.

adverseness
-the quality or state of being adverse; opposition.

adversifoliate
-alt. of adversifolious

adversifolious
-having opposite leaves, as plants which have the leaves so arranged on the stem.

adversion
-a turning towards; attention.

adversities
-of adversity

adversity
-opposition; contrariety.

advert
-to turn the mind or attention; to refer; to take heed or notice;
-- with to; as, he adverted to what was said.

adverted
-of advert

advertence
-alt. of advertency

advertency
-the act of adverting, of the quality of being advertent; attention; notice; regard; heedfulness.

advertent
-attentive; heedful; regardful.

adverting
-of advert

advertise
-to give notice to; to inform or apprise; to notify; to make known; hence, to warn;
-- often followed by of before the subject of information; as, to advertise a man of his loss.
-to give public notice of; to announce publicly, esp. by a printed notice; as, to advertise goods for sale, a lost article, the sailing day of a vessel, a political meeting.

advertised
-of advertise

advertisement
-the act of informing or notifying; notification.
-admonition; advice; warning.
-a public notice, especially a paid notice in some public print; anything that advertises; as, a newspaper containing many advertisements.

advertiser
-one who, or that which, advertises.

advertising
-of advertise

advice
-an opinion recommended or offered, as worthy to be followed; counsel.
-deliberate consideration; knowledge.
-information or notice given; intelligence; as, late advices from france;
-- commonly in the plural.
-counseling to perform a specific illegal act.

advisability
-the quality of being advisable; advisableness.

advisable
-proper to be advised or to be done; expedient; prudent.
-ready to receive advice.

advisable
-ness
-the quality of being advisable or expedient; expediency; advisability.

advisably
-with advice; wisely.

advise
-to give advice to; to offer an opinion, as worthy or expedient to be followed; to counsel; to warn.
-to give information or notice to; to inform;
-- with of before the thing communicated; as, we were advised of the risk.
-to consider; to deliberate.
-to take counsel; to consult;
-- followed by with; as, to advise with friends.

advised
-of advise

advisedly
-circumspectly; deliberately; leisurely.
-with deliberate purpose; purposely; by design.

advisedness
-deliberate consideration; prudent procedure; caution.

advisement
-counsel; advice; information.
-consideration; deliberation; consultation.

adviser
-one who advises.

advisership
-the office of an adviser.

advising
-of advise

adviso
-advice; counsel; suggestion; also, a dispatch or advice boat.

advisory
-having power to advise; containing advice; as, an advisory council; their opinion is merely advisory.

advocacy
-the act of pleading for or supporting; work of advocating; intercession.

advocate
-one who pleads the cause of another. specifically: one who pleads the cause of another before a tribunal or judicial court; a counselor.
-one who defends, vindicates, or espouses any cause by argument; a pleader; as, an advocate of free trade, an advocate of truth.
-christ, considered as an intercessor.
-to plead in favor of; to defend by argument, before a tribunal or the public; to support, vindicate, or recommend publicly.
-to act as advocate.

advocated
-of advocate

advocateship
-office or duty of an advocate.

advocating
-of advocate

advocation
-the act of advocating or pleading; plea; advocacy.
-advowson.
-the process of removing a cause from an inferior court to the supreme court.

advocatory
-of or pertaining to an advocate.

advoke
-to summon; to call.

advolution
-a rolling toward something.

advoutrer
-an adulterer.

advoutress
-an adulteress.

advoutry
-alt. of advowtry

advowee
-one who has an advowson.

advowson
-the right of presenting to a vacant benefice or living in the church. [originally, the relation of a patron (advocatus) or protector of a benefice, and thus privileged to nominate or present to it.]

advowtry
-adultery.

advoyer
-see avoyer.

adward
-award.

adynamia
-considerable debility of the vital powers, as in typhoid fever.

adynamic
-pertaining to, or characterized by, debility of the vital powers; weak.
-characterized by the absence of power or force.

adynamy
-adynamia.

adyta
-of adytum

adytum
-the innermost sanctuary or shrine in ancient temples, whence oracles were given. hence: a private chamber; a sanctum.

adz
-alt. of adze
-to cut with an adz.

adze
-a carpenter's or cooper's tool, formed with a thin arching blade set at right angles to the handle. it is used for chipping or slicing away the surface of wood.