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t which is used to adulterate anything. -- a. Adulterating; as, adulterant agents and processes.

ds thus furnished; money or value supplied beforehand. I shall, with pleasure, make the necessary advances. Jay. The account was made up with intent to show what advances had been made. Kent. In advance (a) In front; before. (b) Beforehand; before an equivalent is received. (c) In the state of having advanced money on…

Any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success, or to any desired end; benefit; as, the enemy had the advantage of a more elevated position. Give me advantage of some brief discourse. Shak. The advantages of a close alliance. Macaulay.

The act of pleading for or supporting; work of advocating; intercession.

Christ, considered as an intercessor. We have an Advocate with the Father. 1 John ii. 1. Faculty of advocates (Scot.), the Scottish bar in Edinburgh. -- Lord advocate (Scot.), the public prosecutor of crimes, and principal crown lawyer. -- Judge advocate. See under Judge.

The process of removing a cause from an inferior court to the supreme court. Bell.

r passions; to touch. A consideration of the rationale of our passions seems to me very necessary for all who would affect them upon solid and pure principles.

do these facts tend to affiliate the faculty of hearing upon the aboriginal vegetative processes H. Spencer.

ding and following), as, wave after wave, day after day, several or many (waves, etc.) successively. -- One after another, successively. -- To be after, to be in pursuit of in order to reach or get; as, he is after money.

roduced without sexual union. -- Ag`a*mo*ge*net"ic*al*ly, adv. All known agamogenetic processes end in a complete return to the primitive stock. Huxley.

The act or process of collecting in a mass; a heaping together. An excessive agglomeration of turrets. Warton.

Pertaining to descent by the male line of ancestors. "The agnatic succession." Blackstone.

The doctrine concerning those things of which we are necessarily ignorant.

sonal Deity, an unseen world, etc., can be neither proved nor disproved, because of the necessary limits of the human mind (as sometimes charged upon Hamilton and Mansel), or because of the insufficiency of the evidence furnished by physical and physical data, to warrant a positive conclusion (as taught by the school o…

The process of becoming white, or developing white patches, or streaks.

The act or process of making white. [Obs.]

A morbid condition due to excessive increase of albuminous elements in the blood.

The process or method of ascertaining the proportion of pure alcohol which spirituous liquors contain.

A recessed portion of a room, or a small room opening into a larger one; especially, a recess to contain a bed; a lateral recess in a library.

By algebraic process.