Adequate

[Lat. adæquat us.] Equal to; proportionate; correspondent to, so as to bear an exact resemblance or proportion. "All our single ideas are adequate : because, being nothing but or quicksilver are united by cohesion; the particles of water which wet the surface of any body are united to it by adhesion. Adhesion may exist between two solid bodies, between a solid and a fluid, or between two fluid bodies. The adhesion of solid bodies is exemplified in the force required to separate two pieces of marble, whose polished surfaces have been brought into contact. The suspension of water above its level in capillary tubes, or between two plates of gla very nearly in contact, shows the adhesion of a fluid to a solid body; and an instance of the adhesion of two liquids is obtained by covering a plate of gla with oil, and bringing it into contact with the surface of water; a very sensible force is required to raise it perpendicularly from the water. Adiman'tus, one of the sect of the Manichees, who denied the authority of the Old Testament, in a book which was answered by St. Augustine. - Flourished at the end of the 3d century. Ad inf in'itum. [Lat.] Interminable, without end. A'dinole, n. ( Min . ) The name given by Beudant to a Ad inquiren'dum. [Lat.] ( Law .) A judicial writ, commanding inquiry to be made. nece ary to produce inflammation, by scraping or kind of ma ive albite mixed with quartz. paring, in surfaces which it is desirable to unite. This tendency of inflamed surfaces to adhere when in con- tact is sometimes troublesome, as in inflammations of serous membranes. tenacious. Adhesively, ad . In an adhesive manner.