Ademption

[Lat. ademptio.] ( Law.) The taking away of a donation, legacy, . Aden-, a Greek word signifying gland, used in medical language as prefix to words relating to the study of glands; as, adenology, the doctrine of the glands, aden otomy, incision of a gland, . Addu'cer, n. One who adduces. Addu'cible, a . Capable of being adduced. Adduction, n. [Fr. adduction .] The act of adducing A'den, a seaport, the capital of the state of Aden, situ- or bringing forward. county. In this township, a post-village of the same name, the cap. of the county, on the Racoon River, about 24 miles W. of Des Moines. several simple and easier operations. When the quan- A'del, or Adell, in Iowa , a township of Dallas tities to be added consist of several denominations which divide themselves into each other, as in the case of hundredweights, pounds, and ounces, or yards, feet, and inches, the smaller denominations are first added together, and should their product equal or exceed the quantity of a superior denomination, it is carried to the next column of figures denoting that superior denomi- nation. In addition of fractions, the various fractions must be first reduced to the same denomination, in or- der that they may represent quantities of equal value; then add together all the numerators of the fractions so reduced, and give to their product the common denominator. Additional, a. That is added. Additionally, ad . In addition. Ad'elaide, inarch i on e of Salisbury. Edward III., king of England, who was much taken with her charms, picked up, at a ball, one of her garters, which had fallen off in the dance. At seeing the lords and ladies laughing, Edward buckled the garter around his knee, and said, Honi so it qui mal y pense (evil be to him who evil thinks). This incident is said to have given rise to the order of the knights of the Garter, 1344, an origin very much questioned by modern writers.