Emily Dickinson Lexicon

AD-MIR'-ING-LY, adv.

With admiration; in the manner of an admirer.

AD-MIS-SI-BIL'I-TY, n.

The quality of being admissible. Judge Chase.

AD-MIS'SI-BLE, a. [See Admit.]

That may be admitted, allowed or coneeded; as, the testimony is admissible.

AD-MISS'I-BLY, adv.

So as to be admitted.

AD-MIT', v.t. [L. admitto, from ad and mitto, to send; Fr. mettre.]

1. To suffer to enter; to grant entrance; whether into a place, or an office, or into the mind, or consideration; as, to admit a student into college; to admit a serious thought into the mind.
2. To give right of entrance; as, a ticket admits one into a play-house.
3. To allow; to receive as true; as, the argument or fact is admitted.
4. To permit, grant or allow, or to be capable of; as, the words do not admit of such a construction. In this sense, of may be used after the verb, or omitted.

AD-MIT'TA-BLE, a.

That may be admitted or allowed.

AD-MIT'TANCE, n.

1. The act of admitting; allowance. More usually,
2. Permission to enter; the power or right of entrance; and hence, actual entrance; as, he gained admittance into the church.
3. Concession; admission; allowance; as, the admittance of an argument. [Not used.]
4. Shakspeare uses the word for the custom or prerogative of being admitted; "Sir John, you are a gentleman of excellent breeding, of great admittance:" but the license is unwarrantable.

AD-MIT'TED, pp.

Permitted to enter or approach; allowed; granted; conceded.

AD-MIT'TER, n.

He that admits.

AD-MIT'TING, ppr.

Permitting to enter or approach; allowing; conceding.

AD-MIX', v.t.

To mingle with something else. [See Mix.]

AD-MIX'TION, n. admix'chun. [L. admixtio, or admistio; of ad and misceo, to mix. See Mix.]

A mingling of bodies; a union by mixing different substances together. It differs from composition or chimical combination; for admixtion does not alter the nature of the substances mixed, but merely blends them together; whereas in composition, the particles unite by affinity, lose their former properties, and form new compounds, with different properties.

AD-MON'ISH, v.t. [L. admoneo, ad and moneo, to teach, warn, admonish; Fr. admonéter; Norm. amonester; Sp. amonestar; Port. amoestar, or admoestar; It. ammonire; G. mahnen, ermahnen; D. maanen, to dun, vermaanen, to admonish; Sw. mana, formana; Dan. maner, formaner; Sax. mænan, to mean.]

1. To warn or notify of a fault; to reprove with mildness. Count him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother. 2 Thess. iii.
2. To counsel against wrong practices; to caution or advise. Admonish one another in psalms and hymns. Col. iii.
3. To instruct or direct. Moses was admonished by God, when he was about to make the tabernacle. Heb. viii.
4. In ecclesiastical affairs, to reprove a member of the church for a fault, either publicly or privately; the first step of church discipline. It is followed by of or against; as, to admonish of a fault committed, or against committing a fault. It has a like use in colleges.

AD-MON'ISH-ER, n.

One who reproves or counsels.

AD-MON'ISH-ING, ppr.

Reproving; warning; counseling; directing.

AD-MON'ISH-MENT,

n: Admonition. Shak.

AD-MO-NI'TION, n.

Gentle reproof; counseling against a fault; instruction in duties; caution; direction. Tit. iii. 1 Cor. x. In church discipline, public or private reproof to reclaim an offender; a step preliminary to excommunication.

AD-MO-NI'TION-ER, n.

A dispenser of admonitions. Hooker.

AD-MON'I-TIVE, a.

Containing admonition. Barrow.

AD-MON'I-TIVE-LY, adv.

By admonition.

AD-MORT-I-ZA'TION, n.

The reducing of lands or tenements to mortmain. [See Mortmain.] Encyc.

AD-MOVE', v.t. [L. admoveo.]

To move to; to bring one thing to another. [Little used.] Brown.

AD-NAS'CENT, a. [L. ad and nascens, growing.]

Growing on something else. Evelyn.

AD-NA'TA, n. [L. ad and natus, grown, from nascor, to grow.]

1. In anatomy, one of the coats of the eye, which is also called albuginea, and is sometimes confounded with the conjunctiva. It lies between the sclerotica and the conjunctiva.
2. Such parts of animal or vegetable bodies, as are usual and natural, as the hair, wool, horns; or accidental, as fungus, misletoe, and excresences.
3. Offsets of plants, germinating under ground, as from the lily, narcissus, and hyacinth. Quincy. Encyc.

AD'NATE, a. [L. ad and natus, grown.]

In botany, pressing close to the stem, or growing to it. Martyn.