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A belladonnaBelladonna Bel`la*don"na, n. [It., literally fine lady; bella
beautiful + donna lady.] (Bot.)
(a) An herbaceous European plant (Atropa belladonna) with
reddish bell-shaped flowers and shining black berries.
The whole plant and its fruit are very poisonous, and the
root and leaves are used as powerful medicinal agents.
Its properties are largely due to the alkaloid atropine
which it contains. Called also deadly nightshade.
(b) A species of Amaryllis (A. belladonna); the
belladonna lily. Adelantado
Adelantado A`de*lan*ta"do, n. [Sp., prop. p. of adelantar to
advance, to promote.]
A governor of a province; a commander. --Prescott.
Adobe
Adobe A*do"be, n.
1. Earth from which unburnt bricks are made. [Western U. S.]
2. (Geol.) Alluvial and playa clays of desert and arid
regions, differing from ordinary clays of humid regions in
containing carbonates and other soluble minerals.
Adobe
Adobe A*do"be ([.a]*d[=o]"b[asl]), n. [Sp.]
An unburnt brick dried in the sun; also used as an adjective,
as, an adobe house, in Texas or New Mexico.
Adolescence
Adolescence Ad`o*les"cence, n. [Fr., fr. L. adolescentia.]
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
Adolescency Ad`o*les"cen*cy, n.
The quality of being adolescent; youthfulness.
AdolescentAdolescent Ad`o*les"cent ([a^]d`[-o]*l[e^]s"sent), a. [L.
adolescens, p. pr. of adolescere to grow up to; ad + the
inchoative olescere to grow: cf. F. adolescent. See Adult.]
Growing; advancing from childhood to maturity.
Schools, unless discipline were doubly strong, Detain
their adolescent charge too long. --Cowper. Adolescent
Adolescent Ad`o*les"cent, n.
A youth.
AdonaiAdonai Ad`o*na"i, n. [Heb. ad[=o]n[=a]i, lit., my lord.]
A Hebrew name for God, usually translated in the Old
Testament by the word ``Lord'.
Note: The later Jews used its vowel points to fill out the
tetragrammaton Yhvh, or Ihvh, ``the incommunicable
name,' and in reading substituted ``Adonai'. Adonean
Adonean Ad`o*ne"an (-n[=e]"an), a. [L. Adon[=e]us.]
Pertaining to Adonis; Adonic. ``Fair Adonean Venus.'
--Faber.
AdonicAdonic A*don"ic, a. [F. adonique: cf. L. Adonius.]
Relating to Adonis, famed for his beauty. -- n. An Adonic
verse.
Adonic verse, a verse consisting of a dactyl and spondee
(-- [crescent] [crescent] | -- --). Adonic verseAdonic A*don"ic, a. [F. adonique: cf. L. Adonius.]
Relating to Adonis, famed for his beauty. -- n. An Adonic
verse.
Adonic verse, a verse consisting of a dactyl and spondee
(-- [crescent] [crescent] | -- --). AdonistAdonist A*do"nist ([.a]*d[=o]"n[i^]st), n. [Heb.
[a^]d[=o]n[=a]i my Lords.]
One who maintains that points of the Hebrew word translated
``Jehovah' are really the vowel points of the word
``Adonai.' See Jehovist. Adonize
Adonize Ad"o*nize ([a^]d"[-o]*n[imac]z), v. t. [Cf. F.
adoniser, fr. Adonis.]
To beautify; to dandify.
I employed three good hours at least in adjusting and
adonozing myself. --Smollett.
Adoptable
Adoptable A*dopt"a*ble, a.
Capable of being adopted.
AdopterAdopter A*dopt"er, n.
1. One who adopts.
2. (Chem.) 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.
[Written also adapter.] Adoptionist
Adoptionist A*dop"tion*ist, n. (Eccl. Hist.)
One of a sect which maintained that Christ was the Son of God
not by nature but by adoption.
Adoptious
Adoptious A*dop"tious, a.
Adopted. [Obs.]
AdoptiveAdoptive A*dopt"ive, a. [L. adoptivus: cf. F. adoptif.]
Pertaining to adoption; made or acquired by adoption; fitted
to adopt; as, an adoptive father, an child; an adoptive
language. -- A*dopt"ive*ly, adv. Adoptive fatherFather Fa"ther, n. [OE. fader, AS. f[ae]der; akin to OS.
fadar, D. vader, OHG. fatar, G. vater, Icel. Fa?ir Sw. & Dan.
fader, OIr. athir, L. pater, Gr. ?????, Skr. pitr, perh. fr.
Skr. p[=a] protect. ???,???. Cf. Papa, Paternal,
Patriot, Potential, Pablum.]
1. One who has begotten a child, whether son or daughter; a
generator; a male parent.
A wise son maketh a glad father. --Prov. x. 1.
2. A male ancestor more remote than a parent; a progenitor;
especially, a first ancestor; a founder of a race or
family; -- in the plural, fathers, ancestors.
David slept with his fathers. --1 Kings ii.
10.
Abraham, who is the father of us all. --Rom. iv. 16.
3. One who performs the offices of a parent by maintenance,
affetionate care, counsel, or protection.
I was a father to the poor. --Job xxix.
16.
He hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all
his house. --Gen. xiv. 8.
4. A respectful mode of address to an old man.
And Joash the king og Israel came down unto him
[Elisha], . . . and said, O my father, my father!
--2 Kings
xiii. 14.
5. A senator of ancient Rome.
6. A dignitary of the church, a superior of a convent, a
confessor (called also father confessor), or a priest;
also, the eldest member of a profession, or of a
legislative assembly, etc.
Bless you, good father friar ! --Shak.
7. One of the chief esslesiastical authorities of the first
centuries after Christ; -- often spoken of collectively as
the Fathers; as, the Latin, Greek, or apostolic Fathers.
8. One who, or that which, gives origin; an originator; a
producer, author, or contriver; the first to practice any
art, profession, or occupation; a distinguished example or
teacher.
The father of all such as handle the harp and organ.
--Gen. iv. 21.
Might be the father, Harry, to that thought. --Shak.
The father of good news. --Shak.
9. The Supreme Being and Creator; God; in theology, the first
person in the Trinity.
Our Father, which art in heaven. --Matt. vi. 9.
Now had the almighty Father from above . . . Bent
down his eye. --Milton.
Adoptive father, one who adopts the child of another,
treating it as his own.
Apostolic father, Conscript fathers, etc. See under
Apostolic, Conscript, etc.
Father in God, a title given to bishops.
Father of lies, the Devil.
Father of the bar, the oldest practitioner at the bar.
Fathers of the city, the aldermen.
Father of the Faithful.
(a) Abraham. --Rom. iv. --Gal. iii. 6-9.
(b) Mohammed, or one of the sultans, his successors.
Father of the house, the member of a legislative body who
has had the longest continuous service.
Most Reverend Father in God, a title given to archbishops
and metropolitans, as to the archbishops of Canterbury and
York.
Natural father, the father of an illegitimate child.
Putative father, one who is presumed to be the father of an
illegitimate child; the supposed father.
Spiritual father.
(a) A religious teacher or guide, esp. one instrumental in
leading a soul to God.
(b) (R. C. Ch.) A priest who hears confession in the
sacrament of penance.
The Holy Father (R. C. Ch.), the pope. AdoptivelyAdoptive A*dopt"ive, a. [L. adoptivus: cf. F. adoptif.]
Pertaining to adoption; made or acquired by adoption; fitted
to adopt; as, an adoptive father, an child; an adoptive
language. -- A*dopt"ive*ly, adv. Adorability
Adorability A*dor`a*bil"i*ty, n.
Adorableness.
Adorable
Adorable A*dor"a*ble, a. [L. adorabilis, fr. adorare: cf. F.
adorable.]
1. Deserving to be adored; worthy of divine honors.
The adorable Author of Christianity. --Cheyne.
2. Worthy of the utmost love or respect.
Adorableness
Adorableness A*dor"a*ble*ness, n.
The quality of being adorable, or worthy of adoration.
--Johnson.
Adorably
Adorably A*dor"a*bly, adv.
In an adorable manner.
Adoration
Adoration Ad`o*ra"tion, n. [L. adoratio, fr. adorare: cf. F.
adoration.]
1. The act of playing honor to a divine being; the worship
paid to God; the act of addressing as a god.
The more immediate objects of popular adoration
amongst the heathens were deified human beings.
--Farmer.
2. Homage paid to one in high esteem; profound veneration;
intense regard and love; fervent devotion.
3. A method of electing a pope by the expression of homage
from two thirds of the conclave.
[Pole] might have been chosen on the spot by
adoration. --Froude.
AdoreAdore A*dore", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Adored ; p. pr. & vb. n.
Adoring.] [OE. aouren, anouren, adoren, OF. aorer, adorer,
F. adorer, fr. L. adorare; ad + orare to speak, pray, os,
oris, mouth. In OE. confused with honor, the French prefix a-
being confused with OE. a, an, on. See Oral.]
1. To worship with profound reverence; to pay divine honors
to; to honor as deity or as divine.
Bishops and priests, . . . bearing the host, which
he [James ?.] publicly adored. --Smollett.
2. To love in the highest degree; to regard with the utmost
esteem and affection; to idolize.
The great mass of the population abhorred Popery and
adored Montouth. --Macaulay. Adore
Adore A*dore", v. t.
To adorn. [Obs.]
Congealed little drops which do the morn adore.
--Spenser.
Adorement
Adorement A*dore"ment (-ment), n.
The act of adoring; adoration. [Obs.] --Sir T. Browne.
Adorer
Adorer A*dor"er, n.
One who adores; a worshiper; one who admires or loves
greatly; an ardent admirer. ``An adorer of truth.'
--Clarendon.
I profess myself her adorer, not her friend. --Shak.
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