Definition for AD-DIC'TION

AD-DIC'TION, n.

  1. The act of devoting or giving up in practice; the state of being devoted. His addiction was to courses vain. – Shak.
  2. Among the Romans, a making over goods to another by sale or legal sentence; also an assignment of debtors in service to their creditors. – Encyc.

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