Adjacent

[Fr. adjacent.] Lying close; bordering upon something; as, a field adjacent to the highway. Adjacent angle, ( Geom .) is an angle immediately contiguous to another, so that one side is common to both angles. This expre ion is more particularly applied to denote that the two angles have not only one side in common, but likewise that the other two sides form one straight line. Adjacent, n. That which lies next to another. (R.) Adja'cently, adv . In an adjacent manner. Adject', v . a. [Lat. adjicio .] To add to. (R.) Adjec'tion, n. The act of adjecting; "the adjection of eternity." (R.) Adjectitious, a . Added. (R.) Adjectival, a . Belonging to the adjective. (R.) Adjective, n. [Lat. adjectus , added to.] (Gram.) The name of one of the parts of speech or cla es into which grammarians have divided words. It is so called because it adds to, or qualifies, the meaning of the noun with which it is joined; as, a good man, a large house. a white horse. In English, a noun frequently takes the place of an adjective; as, a gold watch, the paper duty. Adjective Colors. Colors which require to be fixed by some base or mordant, in order to be applied as perm a- nent dye-stuffs. Adjective, v . a . To change into an adjective. Adjectived, p . a . Changed into an adjective. Adjectively, adv . ( Gram .) In the manner of an adjective. Adjoin', v. a. [Fr. adjoindre, from Lat. adjungere.) To join to; to unite to; to put to. "Corrections should be as remarks adjoined, by way of comma tary to a treaty." Watts. The American Dictionary and Cyclopedia IMG:content-0051.jpg:[graphic] IMG:content-0052.png:[ocr errors] IMG:content-0053.png:[ocr errors] IMG:content-0054.png:[ocr errors] IMG:content-0055.png:[ocr errors] Adjoin', v. n. To be contiguous to; to lie next, so as to (Zool.) The popular name of Cinconia argala, a have nothing between; as, a field adjoining to the high-grallatorial bird belonging to the Stork family. Its way. Adjoin'ing, p . a. Joining to; "the adjoining fane."Dryden. Adjourn', v. a. [Fr. ajourner , from O. Fr. adjourner .] To put off to another day, naming the time, or indefinitely; a term used by public bodies, as Congre , courts of justice, ., when they lay aside a busine , or separate with a view to meet again; - to put off; to defer; to let stay to another fime: "Enjoy the present hour, adjourn the future thought."-Dryden. Adjourn'ment, n. [Fr. ajournement.] The putting to another day, or without day. In parliamentary language, adjournment means a postponement of the sittings or proceedings of either house of Congre , from one time to another specified for its rea embling. See PROROGATION. Adjudge', v . a. [Fr. adjuger , from Lat. adjudicare .] To give the thing controverted, to one of the parties by a judicial sentence. "The great competitors for Rome, Cæsar and Pompey, on Pharsalian plains, Where stern Bell on a, with one final stroke, Adjudg'd the empire of this globe to one." - Philips. -To sentence, or condemn. "But though thou art adjudged to the death, Yet I will favor thee in what I can." - Shak. -To decree by a judicial sentence; to settle. "The case was adjudged in Hilary term." Adjudgment, n. The act of adjudging. Adjudicate, v . a . [See ADJUDGE.] To adjudge; to give the matter litigated, to one of the litigants, by a sen- tence or decision. Adjudicate, v. n. To pa judgment; as, to adjudicate upon a cause. Adjudica'tion, n . [Fr., from Lat. ad , to, and judico , I judge.] The act of granting something to a litigant by a judicial sentence. - In Scottish law, the means by which real property and its acce aries are transferred to a creditor by a debtor, from an heir to a devisee, or from a vendor, who may have failed or refused to con- vey, to the vendee. Adjudicator, n. One who adjudicates. Adjunct, n. [Lat. ad , to, and junctus , joined.] Some thing added to another thing, between which there is no natural affinity. "Learning is but an adjunct to ourself." - Shak. -In the Academy of Paris, adjuncts were members at- tached to a particular science. Adjunct, a. United with; adjoined. Adjunction, n. [Fr. adjonction .] The act of adjoin- ing, or coupling together; the thing joined. Adjunctive, n. He that joins; that which is joined. Adjunctive, a. Joining; having the quality of joining. Adjunctively, adv . In an adjunctive manner. Adjunctly, adv . In an adjunctive manner; in con- nection with; consequently. Adjunta, an Indian town in Hyderabad, or the terri- tory of the Nizam. In its neighborhood are some remarkable cavern-temples, profusely decorated with Buddhistic paintings or sculptures. Lat. 20° N., lon. 75° 50′ E. Adjura'tion, n. The act of adjuring; an earnest and solemn charging on oath. - The form of oath proposed to another. IMG:content-0056.jpg:[blocks in formation] "They only made use of prayer and adjurations in the name Adjure', v. a. [Fr. adjurer , from Lat. adjurare.] To charge, bind, command earnestly, or in God's name; to put one to his oath, under the penalty of a curse. "Ye lamps of heaven! Ye fatal fillets! that once bound this head, Ye sacred altars! from whose flames I fied, Be all of you adjured." - Dryden. -To command an evil spirit to quit its po e ion by the force of enchantments. Adjur'er, n. One who adjures. Adjust', v. a. [Lat. adjust are .] To regulate; to put in order; to settle in the right form; to make fit or cor. respondent; as, "To adjust the event to the predic- tion." "To adjust a garment to the body. - To settle an account or a difficulty to the satisfaction of all par- ties. To put in right order the different parts of a thing; as, to adjust a telescope. Adjustable, a. That may be adjusted. Adjust'age, n. Same as ADJUSTMENT. (R.) Adjust'er, n. One who, or that which, adjusts. Adjustive, a . Tending to adjust. Adjustment, n. The act of adjusting; - the state of being adjusted. (Mar. Ins.) The settlement of a lo incurred by the insured. ( Paint .) The manner in which draperies are disposed. Adjutage, n. See AJUTAGE. arrangement. Adjutancy, n. The office of an adjutant;-skilful Adjutant, n. [Fr. adjudant , from Lat. adjutans , a istant. An a istant; an aid. ( Mil .) In the United States army, an officer selected by the colonel, whose duties in respect to his regiment are similar to those of an adjutant-general with an army. Adjutant - General , the principal organ of the commander of an army in publishing orders. The same size is very great, its ordinary height in the erect attitude being 5 feet. The beak is of enormous size and strength: the head is large, and the neck proportionally muscular. The head and neck are nearly bare of skin; and from the under part of the neck there hangs a large pouch of skin, like a dewlap, which is capable of being inflated, and which gives to the bird a very strange appearance. The adjutant is a native of the warmer parts of India; and is very useful in removing noxious animals and carrion, which it devours with great voracity. It swallows snakes, lizards, frogs, ., and in the craw of one of these birds has been found a land-tortoise 10 inches long, together with the entire body of a large Fig . 33.. black cat. In its wild state it usually lives in companies, and chiefly frequents the mouths of rivers; it may be readily domesticated, but is very apt to display its voracity by purloining articles of food, and makes no difficulty in swallowing a leg of mutton, a fowl, or a hare at one mouthful. From this bird, and from an allied species in Senegal, the beautiful marabou feathers are obtained. Adju'tor, n. A helper. (R.) Adjuvant, n. [Lat. adjuvare , to help.] An a istant. (Med.) A substance which a ists and promotes the op- erations of others. Ad'jygurh, a town and district of British India, in the province of Allah a bad. Area , 340 sq. m. Pop . 40,000 to 50,000. Lat. 24°52′ N., lon. 80° 20′ E. Adkinsville, a post-office of Wayne co., Virginia. Ad Latus. [Lat., by the side of.] A General ad lat us is an officer in Austria, who is given as an aid to command- ants of army corps. Adlega'tion, n. [Lat. adlegatio .] A right formerly claimed by the states of the German empire of joining their own ministers with those of the emperor in public treaties. Ad'ler, PHILIP, a German engraver who flourished in the 16th century. Ad lib'itum. [Lat., at pleasure.] ( Mus .) A term ap- plied to an accompaniment which is not e ential, and may or may not be performed without interfering with the composition. It signifies, also, that the performer may introduce in the composition any additions of his own, according to his fancy. Ad'locution, n. See ALLOCUTION. Ad'mah, one of the five cities of the plain, consumed by fire from heaven, and the site of which was after- wards submerged by the waters of the Dead sea. See sODOM. Admarginate, v. a. To write or note in the mar- gin. (R.) Admeas'ure, v . a . [See MEASURE.] To measure; to ap- portion; to a ign to each claimant his right in. Admeasurement, n . The act or practice of ascer- taining the dimensions of anything; measurement; the dimensions ascertained. ( Law .) A writ directed to the sheriff for the adjust- ment of proportion, when a widow holds from the heir, or his guardian, more in the name of her dower than she is entitled to. It is termed A. of dower. Admeas'urer, n. One who admeasures. Admensura'tion, n. [Lat. ad , to, and mensura, a measure.] Mensuration. Adme'tus. ( Myth .) The most remarkable of this name was a king of Pheræ, in The aly. Apollo, when banished from heaven, is said to have tended his flocks for nine years, and to have obtained from the Parcæ that A. should never dio, if another person laid down his life for him. This was cheerfully done by his wife, Alceste. - A. was one of the Argonauts, and was at the hunt of the Calydonian boar. Peleus promised his daughter in mar- riage only to him who could bring him a chariot drawn by a lion and a wild boar. A. did this by the aid of Apollo, and obtained Alceste in marriage. Admin'icle, n. [Fr. adminicule , from Lat. ad, and manus , hand.] ( Law .) Imperfect proof. In Scotch law, any writing or deed referred to by a party as evidence. Adminicular, a . That which gives help. (0.) (Law.) To settle, as the estate of one who dies with out a will, or whose will fails of an executor. Admin'ister, v. n. To contribute; to add something. "A fountain..which...administers to the pleasure as well as the plenty of the place." - Spectator. ( Law . ) To perform the office of administrator. Admin i ste rial, a . Pertaining to administration. Admin'istrable, a . That may be administered. Admin i str a'tion, n. [Fr., from Lat. admin ist ratio .] The action of superior agents in executing laws, or regulations conformable to law. The aim of a system of A. is to secure the performance of public duties, either directly, ministerially, or through the intervention of subalterns. It is exercised over individuals or things, in civil matters, in courts of law, or in political bodies. So, in America, the executive power, that is to say, the president and his secretaries, is called the administration. In other countries, the word administration , taken in a more general sense, means the conduct or management of any affair. ( Law . ) The management of the estate of an intestate, or of a testator who has no executor. The term is applied broadly to denote the management of estates of minors, lunatics, ., in those cases where trustees have been appointed by authority of law to take charge of such estates in place of the legal owners. Admin'istrative, a. Concerning the administration. Administrator, n . A member of an administration. (Law.) One appointed to administrate or distribute the goods of a person who dies without having made a IMG:content-0057.jpg:[graphic] will. Administrator ship, n. The office of an admin is trat or. Admin i str a'trix, n. [Lat.] She who administers in consequence of a will. Admirabil'ity, Ad'mirable ne , n . The quality or state of being admirable. (R.) Ad'mirable, a . [Fr., from Lat. admirabilis .] To be admired; worthy of admiration; having power to excite wonder; - always taken in a good sense, and applied either to persons or things. Ad'mirable, n. A drink made of peaches, plums, sugar, water, and spirit. Ad'mirably, adv . In an admirable manner. Ad'miral, n. [Ar. emir or amir , lord, chief; Fr. amiral : Sp. admirante or almirante ; It. ammiraglio .] The tit of the highest cla of naval officers. There are in the British navy three ranks of admirals (or flag-officers), the admiral (or full admiral), vice-admiral, and rear admiral. Each of these again has three gradations, according to the color of their flag-admirals of the red, of the white, and of the blue. In a fleet disposed in battle-array, the first of these holds the centre, the second the van, and the third the rear. The A. carries his flag at the main, the V. A. at the fore, and the R. A. at the mizzen mast. Admiral of the fleet is simply an honorary distinction, with an increase of pay.A full admiral has the same power and authority over the marine force of the state that a general has over its land forces; a vice-admiral ranks with a lieutenant general, and a rear-admiral with a major-general. The lord high- admiral is the ninth great officer of state in England. The office has been usually given, at least since the reign of Henry IV., to some of the king's youngest sons, near kinsmen, or of the higher nobility.By act of the United States Congre , July 25, 1866, the active general officers in the navy have been organized as follows: 1 admiral, with rank of general-in-chief; 1 vice- A . , with rank of lieutenant-general; and 10 rear A. , with rank of major-general. When at sea, the pay of the A. is, per annum, $13,000; V. A. , $9,000; R. A. , $6,000, which are proportionally reduced when on leave or waiting orders, to $8,000 and $5,000. After the death of Admiral David G. Farragut, and of David D. Porter, who succeeded him, the titles of Admiral and Vice-Admiral lapsed in the U. S. Navy. (Conch.) A beautiful shell of the gen. Voluta, and comprising four species, the Grand- A ., the Vice- A ., the Orange- A ., and the Extra- A . The first is of a fine white enamel, with bands of yellow finely turned about the head. It is principally characterized by a denticulated line along the centre of the large yellow band; this distinguishes it from the Vice- A . The Orange-A. has more yellow, and the bands of the Extra- A . run into each other. - See VOLUTIDE. Ad'miralship, n . The office or power of an admiral. Ad'miralty, n . [Fr. amirauté .] The power of officers appointed for the administration of naval affairs.- In England, the Admiralty court is usually termed the Instance court, to distinguish it from the Prize court, which is only constituted in time of war. It has cognizance of all civil maritime affairs, which are determined according to the civil law, so far as the same be not inconsistent with the common, statute, or international law. - In America, the United States District Court exercises jurisdiction over all maritime contracts, torts, injuries, or offences. In certain cases, causes may be removed from this court to the Circuit, and ultimately to the Supreme court. Admin'ister, v . a . [Fr. administrer , from Lat. admin- strait, North America. Lat. 73° 49′ N., lon. 83° W. Ad'miralty Inlet, a bay on the S. side of Barrow istrare.] To give; to afford; to supply. "Let zephyrs bland Administer their tepid genial airs." - Philips . To afford; to give; to supply; to furnish; to dispense; office; to manage or conduct, as public affairs. organ of the commander of a corps, or department, is - To act as the minister or agent in any employment or styled a istant adjutant - general . The laws provide, however, but for one adjutant-general, with the rank of brigadier-general, one a istant adjutant-general with the rank of lieutenant-colonel; and 12 other a istants with the rank of major or captain. "Medicine must be administered." -Shak. -To tender, as an oath. -Also , a deep indentation in the land discovered in the Antarctic seas by Capt. Ro ; lat. 64° 15′ S., and long. 50° W, Ad'miralty Island, on the North American coast, about 80 miles long and 20 wide, belonging formerly to Ru ia and now to the United States. It is covered with pine forests, and was circumnavigated by Vancouver. Lat. about 58°24′ N., lon. 135°30′ W. Ad'miralty Islands, a group of about 40 islands in the Pacific ocean, to the N.W. of New-Iceland. Lat. be tween 20 and 3o S., lon. between 146° 18' and 147° 46 Е. Admiration, n. The act of admiring or wondering; -Bustle; tumult; busine ; -sometimes with about . wonder. See ADMIRE. "All this ado about Adam's fatherhood..." Locke. busine than the affair is worth: Admire', v . a . [Fr. admirer , from Lat. ad , to, and mi- -This word implies, generally, more tumult and show of rari, to wonder. This verb had of old the sense of mere wonder; but is now restricted to that of wonder on ac- count of beauty or excellence. It may be of physical or moral beauty, as of a beautiful person, or noble conduct or character. Admire, v . π. Το wonder; sometimes with at . "He admir'd at his own contrivance."-Ray. Admir'er, n. One who wonders or regards with admi- ration; - familiarly, a lover. Amir'ingly, adv . With admiration; in the manner of an admirer. "I made no more ado , but took all their seven points in my target, thus." - Shak. Adobe, n . [From Sp. adobar , to dre .] A kind of un- burnt brick, made from earth of a loamy character, containing about two-thirds fine sand, mixed thoroughly with one-third or le of clayey dust or sand; the loamy substance, under the action of the sun, becoming a hard, compact ma without a crack. It is said that the houses built with these bricks are warmer in winter and cooler in summer than those built with ordinary bricks, and that their duration is extraordinary. Admi ibility, n. [Fr. admi ibilité .] The quality Adolescence, Adolescency. [Fr. adolescence, of being admi ible. the order by the numerous hard, dry, sharp-pointed grains of which its fruit consists. A. autumnal is , the common pheasant's-eye of our gardens, a native of Europe, but naturalized in some parts of New York, has deep crimson flowers, and is annual. The A. vernal is has yellow flowers, of a brilliancy which is rendered the more dazzling by the deep green tuft of finely di vided leaves among which they expand. It is a perer nial plant, cultivated in gardens. Admi ible, a. [Fr., from Lat. admi ibilis .] That which may be admitted or conceded; as, "this supposition is admi ible ." Admi ibly, ad . In an admi ible manner. Admi ion, n . [Fr., from Lat. admi io .] The act or practice of admitting; - the state of being admitted; from Lat. adolescent i a .] The age succeeding puberty; including that part of life in which the body has not yet reached its full perfection, i.e., the years of 12 or 14 to 21, in man, and of 10 or 12 to 21 in woman. For the two sexes, the period between 18 and 25 is more exactly called youth . admittance; the power of entering, or being admitted. "We come, by his command, To crave admi ion, in your happy land."- Dryden. -The allowance of an argument; the grant of a position not fully proved. Admis's ory, a . Granting admi ion; admitting. Admit', v. a. [Lat. admittere .] To suffer to enter; to Adolescent, a . [Fr., from Lat. a doles cens .] Growing; advancing from childhood to manhood; youthful. Adolphus, count of Na au, elected emperor of Ger- many in 1292. His rapacity and tyrannical conduct caused a confederation to be formed against him, at the head of which was Albert, duke of Austria. He fell in battle, July 2, 1298. Fig . 34. ADONIS AUTUMNAL IS. grant entrance. To suffer to enter upon an Dice, in Adolphus, Count of Cleves, B. 1371. He was almost Ado'ny, a Hungarian town on the banks of the Dan. which sense we say, "to admit a student into a college." To allow an argument or position; to receive as true. "I cannot easily admit the inference of your argument."- Locke . -To allow, or grant in general; sometimes with of : "If you once admi: of a latitude. "-Dryden. Admittance, n. The act of admitting; allowance or permi ion to enter. - The power or right of entering. Tis gold which buys admittance."-Shak. (Law.) The act of giving po e ion of a copyhold estate. Admitta'tur, n. [Lat., let him be admitted.] A cert i- ficate of admi ion formerly given to students in the American colleges. Admit'ter, n. One who admits. Admix', v. a. [Lat. admisceo.] To mingle with some- thing else. (R.) Admix'tion, n. [Lat. admixtio .] The mingling of one body with another. Admixture, n. The compound formed by mixing substances together; - also, the act of mingling; mix ture. Admon'ish, v . a. [Lat. admonere.] To warn of a fault; to reprove gently; to counsel against wrong practices; to put in mind of a fault or a duty; to remind. Admon'isher, n. One who admonishes. Admon'ishment, n. Admonition. (R.) "Thy grave admonishments prevail with me."-Shak. Admonitio Fustium. Among the ancient Romans, a military punishment, not di imilar to the modern whipping, except that it was performed with vine branches. Admonition, n. [Fr., from Lat. admonitio .] Gentle reproof; friendly warning, to the effect of preventing further transgre ion. (Eccl. Hist .) The warning given to an offender before excommunication, or to a suitor before proceeding against him in pænam contumaciæ , or for default. Admonitioner, n. A dispenser of admonitions. Admon'itive, a. Which contains admonition. Admon'itively, adv . In an admonitive manner. Admonitor, n. An admonisher. Admon'itory, a . That which admonishes; monitory. Admortization, n. [Lat. admortizatio .] In feudal law, the reduction of property of lands or tenements to IMG:content-0058.png:[blocks in formation] Ad'nat a tu'nica. [Lat. See ADNATE.] ( Anat .) A membrane of the eye, mostly confounded with the conjunctiva. It is, however, thus formed: Five of the muscles which move the eye take their origin from the bottom of the orbit, and the sixth arises from the edge of it; they are all inserted, by a tendinous expansion, into the anterior part of the tunica sclerotic a, which expansion forms the adnata , and gives the whitene peculiar to the fore part of the eye. Ad'nate, n. [Lat. ad , to, and nat us , a growing.] ( Bot .) A term applied to certain portions of a plant when they adhere to other portions; thus, when the stipules are united to the petiole, as in the leaf of the rose, they are called adnate stipules ; when the anther is closely attached to the filament, as in the flower of the buttercup, it is said to be an adnate anther. The term adhe rent has the same signification. Ad'nat us, a. [See ADNATE.] ( Anat . ) A term applied to some parts which appear to grow to others; as, tunica adnata , folium adnatum. Adnom'inal, a. [Lat. ad, to, and nomen, noun.] (Gram.) Adjectival. (R.) Ad'noun, n. [Lat. adnomen, surname.] An adjective.(R.) Adnu'bilated, a . [Lat. adnubilare , to obscure.] Clouded. (R.) Ado', n. [From the v. to do , with the prefix a before it, as the French affaire , from a and faire .] Trouble; diff i- culty. "He took Clitophon prisoner, whom, with much ado , he keepeth alive." - Sidney. constantly engaged in wars, chiefly with his brother Gerard, Duke of Mark. D. 1448. Adolphus, Frederick II., of Holstein Gottorp. king of Sweden, succeeded his father in 1751. He re- formed the laws, and encouraged learning and the arts of peace. B. 1710, D. 1771. - This sovereign instituted, at Tornea in Lapland, an academy of inscriptions and belles-lettres. Adolphus, JOHN, a distinguished English barrister. B. 1770, D. 1845. As an author, he is principally known by a History of England from the Acce ion of George III. Adone'an, a. Belonging to Adonis; Adonic. Ado'ni, a town of India, situate in the Deccan, under the presidency of Madras, in Golconda, on one of the branches of the Tungebadda, 175 miles S.W. of Hydera- bad. In 1787 it was reduced to ruins by Tippoo Saib. Ado/ni-Be/zek, king of Bezek, in Canaan. He was a cruel prince, on account of which his thumbs and great toes were cut off by the tribes of Judah and Simeon, after they had defeated him in a great battle. D. at Jerusa- lem, в. с. 1443. Adon'ic, a . Relating to Adonis. (Pros.) A verse which consisted of a dactyle and a spondee or trochee; as, rārā jūvent us . It was so called from being first used in the elegies on Adonis, the lover of Venus. Adonic Festivals , certain festivals held yearly by the ancients on the banks of the Adonis, a river of Phœni- cia, where Adonus, or Thammuz, as he is termed in the East, was supposed to have received his death-wound. At certain periods of the year this river becomes tinged with a high red color, caused by the washing up of por- tions of red earth. This discoloration of the waters was ascribed by the ancients to a supposed sympathy po e ed by the river for the death of the lover of Venus. Mil- ton, in his "Paradise Lost, thus beautifully alludes to the fact:- "Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate, In am'rous ditties, all a summer's day: While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz, yearly wounded." Adonijah, the fourth son of king David, by Haggith. He aimed at his father's crown, but Solomon was pro- claimed king of Israel, when Adonijah fled to the taber- nacle for protection. After the death of David he was slain by order of Solomon, в. с. 1015. IMG:content-0059.png:[blocks in formation] "The solicitations of our natural or adopted desires."- Locke . Adopted, p . a . Taken as a son by choice. - Selected or a umed as one's own. Adoptedly, ad . After the manner of something adopted. Adopt'er, n. One who adopts. (Chem.) A ve el, more often written adapter , q. v. Adop'tian i. See ADOPTIONISM. Adoption, n. [Fr., from Lat. adoptio .] Is the taking of another's child as one's own. By the Roman and Grecian laws, if a person had no children of his own, he might appoint any other person to be his child by adop- tion, and, from that moment, the child became, to all intents and purposes, a member of the family of his adopter. There was also a custom in ancient Rome of adopting by will. Thus it was that Julius Cæsar adopted his great nephew Octavius, who was thenceforth called Caius Julius Cæsar Oct avian us; but is more generally known under the more pompous appellation of Augus- tus, which he afterwards a umed. The 11th title of the first book of Just in i an's Institutes is concerning adop- tion. -The German system of adoption is derived from the Roman law, but modified so as to be more in har- mony with the German usages. The age of the adopter ought to be fifty at least. As for the adopted son, the Pru ian law merely requires him to be younger than the father; while the Austrian code requires him to be eighteen years younger than the adoptive father. The French law on adoption is to be found in the 18th title of the first book of the Code Civil. A. is not recognized in English law. In the United States, A. is regulated by statute (under various restrictions) in several of the States, as Ma achusetts, Texas, Illinois (1867), and Iowa (1868). In general, A. entitles the child to all the rights and privileges of a legal heir, except that it shall not take property limited to the heirs of the body of the Adoptionism, n. The name given to a strife which new parents, nor coming from their collateral kindred. arose in the Church, in Spain, towards the end of the 9th century. The leaders in this controversy were Felix of Urgellis and Elipandos of Toledo, who held that Christ in his human nature was the son of God only by adoption. The controversy ceased on the death of the two leaders. Adonis, ( Myth .,) son of Myrrha, daughter of Cinyras, king of Cyprus, was born in Arabia, whither his mother had fled in consequence of certain transactions which it is not nece ary to relate. Before the birth of her son she was transformed into the tree which produces the fragrant gum called by her name; this, however, did not hinder his being brought into the world in due season: he grew up a model of manly beauty, and was pa ion- ately beloved by Aphrodite (Venus), who quitted Olym- pus to dwell with him. Hunting was his favorite pur- suit, until, having gone to the chase against the entrea- ties of his mistre , he was mortally wounded in the thigh by a wild boar. Venus, coming too late to his rescue, changed his blood into flowers. After death he was said to stand as high in the favor of Perse phone (Proser pine), as before in that of Aphrodite; but the latter being inconsolable, her rival generously consented that Adonis should spend half the year with his celes- tial, half with his infernal mistre . The fable has been -To love, to reverence, to honor in the highest degree. Adoptious, a . Adoptive. Adoptive, a. [Fr. adopt if , from Lat. adoptivus .] One who is adopted, as, an adoptive son; or one who adopts, as, an adoptive father. A'dor, n . ( Bot . ) À name for spelt. Adorability, n. The state or quality of being adora- ble; adorablene . (R.) variously interpreted. One explanation makes the alter- nate abode of Adonis above and under the earth, typical of the burial of seed, which in due season rises above ground for the propagation of its specios; another, of the annual pa age of the sun from the northern to the southern hemisphere. Ado'nis, n . ( Bot .) The Pheasant's Eye, a gen. of annual and perennial plants, order hanunculaceæ, comprising many species of very great beauty, and so called fanci- fully from the plant which sprang from the blood of Adonis when wounded by a boar. The A. are dis- tinguished from the Ranunculæ by the want of a little scale at the base of the petals, and from other genera of Adorable, a . [Fr., from Lat. adorabilis .] That which is worthy of adoration, or of the utmost love or respect. Adorablene , n . The quality of being adorable; worthine of divine honor. Adorably, ad . In a manner worthy of adoration. Adore', v. a. [Fr. adorer , from Lat. adorare, to pray.j To worship with external homage; to pay divine honors. "The mountain nymphs and Them is they adore, And from their oracles relief implore.'" Dryden. "The people appear adoring their prince, and their prince adoring God. Tatler . Adore'a, n. A term of various acceptation among the Romans, sometimes signifying grain in general, at others a kind of cake offered in sacrifice; and again it was used to denote the gratuitous distribution of corn; whence it became applied to all forms of reward. Adorer, n. One who adores; a worshipper; -more usually a lover, an admirer. "1 profe myself her adorer , not her friend." Skak. Adora'tion, n. [Fr.] The act of adoring and worshipping God. Among the Hebrews the act of adoration consisted in failing upon the knee, and then gradually The American Dictionary and Cyclopedia Inclining the body until the body touched the ground; but sometimes they only rose up and suddenly prostrated the body. The same custom prevailed among the first Christians, and is still an e ential part of the Mahometan religion. We need not speak of the postures by which every church expre es adoration, thinking that any act actuated by a religious sentiment is worthy of respect, but that the better act of adoration is the internal one, coming from the heart and soul. Fig. 35.-ADORATION. (Modern Egypt.) Ador'ingly, ad. With adoration. Adorn', v. a. [Lat. adorn are.] To dre or deck some one with ornaments. "He hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels." - Isaiah 1xi. 10. -To set out any place or thing with decorations; as, a gallery is adorned with pictures or statues. - To embellish with oratory or elegance of language. "Their names some noble poem shall adorn."-Dryden.