Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for AD-DIC'TION
AD-DIC'TION, n.
- The act of devoting or giving up in practice; the state of being devoted. His addiction was to courses vain. – Shak.
- 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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