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By way of addition or adjunct; in connection with.

The form of oath or appeal. Persons who . . . made use of prayer and adjurations. Addison.

To add. [Obs.]

The act of playing honor to a divine being; the worship paid to God; the act of addressing as a god. The more immediate objects of popular adoration amongst the heathens were deified human beings. Farmer.

Supplemental; additional; adventitious; ascititious. "Adscititious evidence." Bowring. -- Ad`sci*ti"tious*ly, adv.

Additional signification. [R.] Tooke.

To denote additionally. [R.] Tooke.

ntaining excessive praise or compliment; servilely praising; flattering; as, an adulatory address. A mere rant of adulatory freedom. Burke.

An addition to the price; rise in price or value; as, an advance on the prime cost of goods.

To accede, or come (to); to be added to something or become a part of it, though not essential. [R.] Where no act of the will advenes as a coefficient. Coleridge.

Coming from outward causes; superadded. [Obs.]

Added extrinsically; not essentially inherent; accidental or causal; additional; supervenient; foreign. To things of great dimensions, if we annex an adventitious idea of terror, they become without comparison greater. Burke.

Easy to be spoken to or addressed; receiving others kindly and conversing with them in a free and friendly manner; courteous; sociable. An affable and courteous gentleman. Shak. His manners polite and affable. Macaulay.

Assumed artificially; not natural. Affected coldness and indifference. Addison.

Moving the emotions; fitted to excite the emotions; pathetic; touching; as, an affecting address; an affecting sight. The most affecting music is generally the most simple.

Positive; -- a term applied to quantities which are to be added, and opposed to negative, or such as are to be subtracted.

To subjoin, annex, or add at the close or end; to append to; to fix to any part of; as, to affix a syllable to a word; to affix a seal to an instrument; to affix one's name to a writing.

afflicted; a state of pain, distress, or grief. Some virtues are seen only in affliction. Addison.

Affluence. [Obs.] Addison.

good life affords consolation in old age. His tuneful Muse affords the sweetest numbers. Addison. The quiet lanes . . . afford calmer retreats. Gilpin.