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Administration
Administration Ad*min`is*tra"tion (?; 277), n. [OE.
administracioun, L. administratio: cf. F. administration.]
1. 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.
His financial administration was of a piece with his
military administration. --Macaulay.
2. 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.
A mild and popular administration. --Macaulay.
The administration has been opposed in parliament.
--Johnson.
3. 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.
Administration with the will annexed 4. (Law)
(a) The management and disposal, under legal authority, of
the estate of an intestate, or of a testator having no
competent executor.
(b) The management of an estate of a deceased person by an
executor, the strictly corresponding term execution
not being in use.
Administration with the will annexed, administration
granted where the testator has appointed no executor, or
where his appointment of an executor for any cause has
failed, as by death, incompetency, refusal to act, etc.
Syn: Conduct; management; direction; regulation; execution;
dispensation; distribution. AdministrativeAdministrative Ad*min"is*tra`tive, a. [L. administrativus: cf.
F. administratif.]
Pertaining to administration; administering; executive; as,
an administrative body, ability, or energy. --
Ad*min"is*tra`tive*ly, adv. AdministrativelyAdministrative Ad*min"is*tra`tive, a. [L. administrativus: cf.
F. administratif.]
Pertaining to administration; administering; executive; as,
an administrative body, ability, or energy. --
Ad*min"is*tra`tive*ly, adv. Ancillary administration
Ancillary administration An"cil*la*ry ad*min`is*tra"tion (Law)
An administration subordinate to, and in aid of, the primary
or principal administration of an estate.
Calamistration
Calamistration Cal`a*mis*tra"tion
(k[a^]l*[.a]*m[i^]s*tr[=a]"sh[u^]n), n.
The act or process of curling the hair. [Obs.] --Burton.
CastratingCastrate Cas"trate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Castrated; p. pr. &
vb. n. Castrating.] [L. castrarus, p; p. of castrare to
castrate, asin to Skr. [,c]astra knife.]
1. To deprive of the testicles; to emasculate; to geld; to
alter.
2. To cut or take out; esp. to remove anything erroneous, or
objectionable from, as the obscene parts of a writing; to
expurgate.
My . . . correspondent . . . has sent me the
following letter, which I have castrated in some
places. --Spectator. Castration
Castration Cas*tra"tion, n. [L. castratio; cf. F. castration.]
The act of castrating.
Demonstrative
Demonstrative De*mon"stra*tive, n. (Gram.)
A demonstrative pronoun; as, ``this' and ``that' are
demonstratives.
Demonstratively
Demonstratively De*mon"stra*tive*ly, adv.
In a manner fitted to demonstrate; clearly; convincingly;
forcibly.
Demonstrativeness
Demonstrativeness De*mon"stra*tive*ness, n.
The state or quality of being demonstrative.
Diagonal stratificationDiagonal Di*ag"o*nal, a. [L. diagonalis, fr. Gr. ? from to
angle; dia` through + ? an angle; perh. akin to E. knee: cf.
F. diagonal.] (Geom.)
Joining two not adjacent angles of a quadrilateral or
multilateral figure; running across from corner to corner;
crossing at an angle with one of the sides.
Diagonal bond (Masonry), herringbone work. See
Herringbone, a.
Diagonal built (Shipbuilding), built by forming the outer
skin of two layers of planking, making angles of about
45[deg] with the keel, in opposite directions.
Diagonal cleavage. See under Cleavage.
Diagonal molding (Arch.), a chevron or zigzag molding.
Diagonal rib. (Arch.) See Cross-springer.
Diagonal scale, a scale which consists of a set of parallel
lines, with other lines crossing them obliquely, so that
their intersections furnish smaller subdivisions of the
unit of measure than could be conveniently marked on a
plain scale.
Diagonal stratification. (Geol.) Same as Cross bedding,
under Cross, a. EmplastrationEmplastration Em`plas*tra"tion, n. [L. emplastratio a
budding.]
1. The act or process of grafting by inoculation; budding.
[Obs.] --Holland.
2. [See 1st Emplaster.] (Med.) The application of a plaster
or salve. Fenestration
Fenestration Fen`es*tra"tion, n.
1. (Arch.) The arrangement and proportioning of windows; --
used by modern writers for the decorating of an
architectural composition by means of the window (and
door) openings, their ornaments, and proportions.
2. (Anat.) The state or condition of being fenestrated.
Flustration
Flustration Flus*tra"tion, n.
The act of flustrating; confusion; flurry. [Colloq.]
--Richardson.
FrustratingFrustrate Frus"trate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Frustrated; p. pr.
& vb. n. Frustrating.]
1. To bring to nothing; to prevent from attaining a purpose;
to disappoint; to defeat; to baffle; as, to frustrate a
plan, design, or attempt; to frustrate the will or
purpose.
Shall the adversary thus obtain His end and
frustrate thine ? --Milton.
2. To make null; to nullifly; to render invalid or of no
effect; as, to frustrate a conveyance or deed.
Syn: To balk; thwart; foil; baffle; defeat. Frustrative
Frustrative Frus"tra*tive, a.
Tending to defeat; fallacious. [Obs.] --Ainsworth.
IllustratingIllustrate Il*lus"trate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Illustrated; p.
pr. & vb. n. Illustrating.] [L. illustratus, p. p. of
illustrare to illustrate, fr. illustris bright. See
Illustrious.]
1. To make clear, bright, or luminous.
Here, when the moon illustrates all the sky.
--Chapman.
2. To set in a clear light; to exhibit distinctly or
conspicuously. --Shak.
To prove him, and illustrate his high worth.
--Milton.
3. To make clear, intelligible, or apprehensible; to
elucidate, explain, or exemplify, as by means of figures,
comparisons, and examples.
4. To adorn with pictures, as a book or a subject; to
elucidate with pictures, as a history or a romance.
5. To give renown or honor to; to make illustrious; to
glorify. [Obs.]
Matter to me of glory, whom their hate Illustrates.
--Milton. Illustration
Illustration Il`lus*tra"tion, n. [L. illustratio: cf. F.
illustration.]
1. The act of illustrating; the act of making clear and
distinct; education; also, the state of being illustrated,
or of being made clear and distinct.
2. That which illustrates; a comparison or example intended
to make clear or apprehensible, or to remove obscurity.
3. A picture designed to decorate a volume or elucidate a
literary work.
Illustrative
Illustrative Il*lus"tra*tive, a.
1. Tending or designed to illustrate, exemplify, or
elucidate.
2. Making illustrious. [Obs.]
Illustratively
Illustratively Il*lus"tra*tive*ly, adv.
By way of illustration or elucidation. [R.] --Sir T. Browne.
Indirect demonstrationIndirect In`di*rect", a. [Pref. in- not + direct: cf. F.
indirect.]
1. Not direct; not straight or rectilinear; deviating from a
direct line or course; circuitous; as, an indirect road.
2. Not tending to an aim, purpose, or result by the plainest
course, or by obvious means, but obliquely or
consequentially; by remote means; as, an indirect
accusation, attack, answer, or proposal.
By what bypaths and indirect, crooked ways I met
this crown. --Shak.
3. Not straightforward or upright; unfair; dishonest; tending
to mislead or deceive.
Indirect dealing will be discovered one time or
other. --Tillotson.
4. Not resulting directly from an act or cause, but more or
less remotely connected with or growing out of it; as,
indirect results, damages, or claims.
5. (Logic & Math.) Not reaching the end aimed at by the most
plain and direct method; as, an indirect proof,
demonstration, etc.
Indirect claims, claims for remote or consequential damage.
Such claims were presented to and thrown out by the
commissioners who arbitrated the damage inflicted on the
United States by the Confederate States cruisers built and
supplied by Great Britain.
Indirect demonstration, a mode of demonstration in which
proof is given by showing that any other supposition
involves an absurdity (reductio ad absurdum), or an
impossibility; thus, one quantity may be proved equal to
another by showing that it can be neither greater nor
less.
Indirect discourse. (Gram.) See Direct discourse, under
Direct.
Indirect evidence, evidence or testimony which is
circumstantial or inferential, but without witness; --
opposed to direct evidence.
Indirect tax, a tax, such as customs, excises, Instratified
Instratified In*strat"i*fied, a.
Interstratified.
Interstratification
Interstratification In`ter*strat`i*fi*ca"tion, n. (Geol.)
Stratification among or between other layers or strata; also,
that which is interstratified.
Interstratified
Interstratified In`ter*strat"i*fied, a. (Geol.)
Stratified among or between other bodies; as, interstratified
rocks.
Interstratify
Interstratify In`ter*strat"i*fy, v. t. (Geol.)
To put or insert between other strata.
LustratingLustrate Lus"trate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Lustrated; p. pr. &
vb. n. Lustrating.] [L. lustratus, p. p. of lustrare to
lustrate, fr. lustrum. See Lustrum.]
To make clear or pure by means of a propitiatory offering; to
purify.
We must purge, and cleanse, and lustrate the whole
city. --Hammond. Lustration
Lustration Lus*tra"tion, n. [L. lustratio: cf. F. lustration.]
1. The act of lustrating or purifying.
And holy water for lustration bring. --Dryden.
2. (Antiq.) A sacrifice, or ceremony, by which cities,
fields, armies, or people, defiled by crimes, pestilence,
or other cause of uncleanness, were purified.
Magistratic
Magistratic Mag`is*trat"ic, Magistratical Mag`is*trat"ic*al,
a.
Of, pertaining to, or proceeding from, a magistrate; having
the authority of a magistrate. --Jer. Taylor.
Magistratical
Magistratic Mag`is*trat"ic, Magistratical Mag`is*trat"ic*al,
a.
Of, pertaining to, or proceeding from, a magistrate; having
the authority of a magistrate. --Jer. Taylor.
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