Emily Dickinson Lexicon

AD-SCI-TI'TIOUS, a. [L. ascititius, adscisco, ascisco, to add or join.]

Added; taken as supplemental; additional; not requisite. Warton.

AD-STRIC'TION, n. [L. adstrictio, astrictio, of ad and stringo, to strain or bind fast. See Strict.]

A binding fast. Among physicians, the rigidity of a part of the body, occasioning a retention of usual evacuations; costiveness; a closeness of the emunctories; also the styptic effects of medicines. Encyc. Quincy.

AD-STRIC'TO-RY, or AD-STRING'ENT,

See ASTRINGENT.

AD-U-LA'RI-A, n. [From Adula, the summit of a Swiss mountain.]

A mineral deemed the most perfect variety of albite and felspar; its color white, or with a tinge of green, yellow, or red. Cleaveland.

AD-U-LA'TION, n. [L. adulatio.]

Servile flattery; praise in excess, or beyond what is merited; high compliment. Shak.

AD'U-LA-TOR, n.

A flatterer; one who offers praise servilely.

AD'U-LA-TO-RY, a.

Flattering; containing excessive praise or compliments; servilely praising; as, an adulatory address.

AD'U-LA-TRESS, n.

A female that flatters with servility.

A-DULT', a. [L. adultus, grown to maturity, from oleo, to grow; Heb. {foreign}, to ascend.]

Having arrived at mature years, or to full size and strength; as, an adult person or plant.

A-DULT', n.

A person grown to full size and strength, or to the years of manhood. It is also applied to full-grown plants. Among civilians, a person between fourteen and twenty-five years of age. Encyc.

A-DUL'TER-ANT, n.

The person or thing that adulterates.

A-DUL'TER-ATE, a.

Tainted with adultery; debased by foreign mixture.

A-DUL'TER-ATE, v.i.

To commit adultery. [Obs.]

A-DUL'TER-ATE, v.t. [L. adultero, from adulter, mixed, or an adulterer; ad and alter, other.]

To corrupt, debase, or make impure by an admixture of baser materials; as, to adulterate liquors, or the coin of a country. Boyle.

A-DUL'TER-A-TED, pp.

Corrupted; debased by a mixture with something of less value.

A-DUL'TER-ATE-LY, adv.

In an adulterate manner.

A-DUL'TER-ATE-NESS, n.

The quality or state of being debased or counterfeited.

A-DUL'TER-A-TING, ppr.

Debasing: corrupting; counterfeiting.

A-DUL-TER-A'TION, n.

The act of adulterating, or the state of being adulterated, corrupted or debased by foreign mixture. The adulteration of liquors, of drugs, and even of bread and beer, is a common, but a scandalous crime.

A-DUL'TER-ER, n. [L. adulter.]

1. A man guilty of adultery; a man who has sexual commerce with any married woman, except his wife. [see Adultery.]
2. In Scripture, an idolater. Ezek. xxiii.
3. An apostate from the true faith, or one who violates his covenant engagements; a very wicked person. Jer. ix. and xxiii.
4. One devoted to earthly things. James iv.

A-DUL'TER-ESS, n.

A married woman guilty of incontinence.

A-DUL'TER-INE, a.

Proceeding from adulterous commerce; spurious. Hall.

A-DUL'TER-INE, n.

In the civil law, a child issuing from an adulterous connection.

A-DUL'TER-OUS, a.

1. Guilty of adultery; pertaining to adultery .
2. In Scripture, idolatrous, very wicked. Matt. xii. and xvi. Mark viii.

A-DUL'TER-OUS-LY, adv.

In an adulterous manner.