Emily Dickinson Lexicon

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.

AD'NOUN, n. [ad and noun.]

In grammar, an adjective, or attribute. [Little used.]

AD-NU'BI-LA-TED, a.

Clouded; obscured.

A-DO', n. [Qu. a and do.]

Bustle; trouble; labor; difficulty; as, to make a great ado about trifles; to persuade one with much ado.

AD-O-LES'CENCE, n. [L. adolescens, growing, of ad and olesco, to grow, from oleo. Heb. עלה, to ascend; Ar. عَلَا, to be high.]

The state of growing, applied to the young of the human race; youth, or the period of life between childhood and manhood.

AD-O-LES'CENT, a.

Growing; advancing from childhood to manhood.

AD-O-NE'AN, a.

Pertaining to Adonis. Fair Adonean Venus. Faber.

A-DO'NI-A, n.

Festivals celebrated anciently in honor of Adonis, by females, who spent two days in lamentations and infamous pleasures. Encyc.

A-DON'IC, a.

Adonic verse, a short verse, in which the death of Adonis was bewailed. It consists of a dactyl and spondee or trochee. Bailey. Cyc.

A-DON'IC, n.

An Adonic verse. Among the Anglo-Saxons, a poetic verse consisting of one long, two short and two long syllables. Henry's Brit. 2, 383.

A-DO'NIS, n.

In botany, bird's eye or pheasant's eye.

A-DO'NIS, n.

In mythology, the favorite of Venus, said to be the son of Cinyras, king of Cyprus. He was fond of hunting, and received a mortal wound from the tusk of a wild boar. Venus lamented his death, and changed him into the flower, anemony.

A-DO'NISTS, n. [Heb. Ch. and Syr. אדון Adon; Lord, a scriptural title of the Supreme Being.]

Among critics, a sect or party who maintain that the Hebrew points ordinarily annexed to the consonants of the word Jehovah, are not the natural points belonging to that word, and that they do not express the true pronunciation of it; but that they are vowel points belonging to the words, Adonai and Elohim, applied to the ineffable name Jehovah, which the Jews were forbid to utter, and the true pronunciation of which was lost; they were therefore always to pronounce the word Adonai, instead of Jehovah. Encyc.

A-DOPT', v.t. [L. adopto, of ad and opto, to desire or choose. See Option.]

1. To take a stranger into one's family, as son and heir; to take one who is not a child, and treat him as one, giving him a title to the privileges and rights of a child.
2. In a spiritual sense, to receive the sinful children of men into the invisible church, and into God's favor and protection, by which they become heirs of salvation by Christ. Brown.
3. To take or receive as one's own, that which is not naturally so; as, to adopt the opinions of another; or to receive that which is new; as, to adopt a particular mode of husbandry.
4. To select and take; as, which mode will you adopt?

A-DOPT'ED, pp.

Taken as one's own; received as son and heir; selected for use.

A-DOPT'ED-LY, adv.

In the manner of something adopted.

A-DOP'TER, n.

1. One who adopts.
2. In chimistry, a large round receiver, with two necks, diametrically 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, or to increase the length of the neck of a retort.

A-DOPT'ING, ppr.

Taking a stranger as a son; taking as one's own.

A-DOP'TION, n. [L. adoptio.]

1. The act of adopting, or the state of being adopted; the taking and treating of a stranger as one's own child.
2. The receiving as one's own, what is new or not natural.
3. God's taking the sinful children of men into his favor and protection. Eph. iv. Adoption by arms, an ancient ceremony of presenting arms to one for his merit or valor, which laid the person under an obligation to defend the giver. Adoption by baptism, is the spiritual affinity which is contracted by god-fathers and god-children, in the ceremony of baptism. It was introduced into the Greek church, and afterwards among the ancient Franks. This affinity was supposed to entitle the god-child to a share of the godfather's estate. Encyc. Adoption by hair, was performed by cutting off the hair of a person and giving it to the adoptive father. Thus Pope John VIII adopted Boson, king of Arles. Adoption by matrimony, is the taking the children of a wife or husband, by a former marriage, into the condition of natural children. This is a practice peculiar to the Germans; but is not so properly adoption as adfiliation. Encyc. Adoption by testament, is the appointing of a person to be heir, by will, on condition of his taking the name, arms, &c. of the adopter. Encyc. In Europe, adoption is used for many kinds of admission to a more intimate relation, and is nearly equivalent to reception; as, the admission of persons into hospitals or monasteries, or of one society into another. Encyc.

A-DOP'TION-IST, n.

One who maintains that Christ was the son of God by adoption only. Murdock.

A-DOPT'IVE, a. [L. adoptivus.]

That adopts, as an adoptive father; or that is adopted, as an adoptive son.