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A quality or property of the body or the mind, whether natural or acquired; as, color, in the body, judgment in the mind.

Pertaining to administration, or to the executive part of government.

Pertaining to administration; administering; executive; as, an administrative body, ability, or energy. -- Ad*min"is*tra`tive*ly, adv.

Pertaining to admission.

Pertaining to an adnoun; adjectival; attached to a noun. Gibbs. -- Ad*nom"i*nal*ly, adv.

Pertaining to Adonis; Adonic. "Fair Adonean Venus." Faber.

Pertaining to adoption; made or acquired by adoption; fitted to adopt; as, an adoptive father, an child; an adoptive language. -- A*dopt"ive*ly, adv.

Pertaining to the Adriatic Sea; as, Adrian billows.

Of or pertaining to a sea so named, the northwestern part of which is known as the Gulf of Venice.

Guilty of, or given to, adultery; pertaining to adultery; illicit. Dryden.

Property given, usually by a parent to a child, in advance of a future distribution.

Of or pertaining to an adverb; of the nature of an adverb; as, an adverbial phrase or form.

we endure an adverse fortune. Southey. Adverse possession (Law), a possession of real property avowedly contrary to some claim of title in another person. Abbott.

Of or pertaining to an advocate. [R.]

Pertaining to, or characterized by, debility of the vital powers; weak.

Of or pertaining to the sea, or arm of the Mediterranean sea, east of Greece. See Archipelago.

Of or pertaining to Æolia or Æolis, in Asia Minor, colonized by the Greeks, or to its inhabitants; æolic; as, the Æolian dialect.

Exhibiting differences of quality or property in different directions; not isotropic. Sir W. Thomson.

Difference of quality or property in different directions.

Of or pertaining to the air, or atmosphere; inhabiting or frequenting the air; produced by or found in the air; performed in the air; as, aërial regions or currents. "Aërial spirits." Milton. "Aërial voyages." Darwin.