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dhood to maturity. Schools, unless discipline were doubly strong, Detain their adolescent charge too long. Cowper.

articular class of artificers or traders thought proper to act as a corporation without a charter, such were called adulterine guilds. Adam Smith.

Characterized by adulteration; spurious. "An adulterous mixture." [Obs.] Smollett.

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

To combine or charge with gas; usually with carbonic acid gas, formerly called fixed air. His sparkling sallies bubbled up as from aërated natural fountains. Carlyle.

The act or preparation of charging with carbonic acid gas or with oxygen.

That which supplies with air; esp. an apparatus used for charging mineral waters with gas and in making soda water.

Any proceeding or action which it is wished to refer to or characterize vaguely; as, an affair of honor, i. e., a duel; an affair of love, i. e., an intrigue.

oo great injury; as, A affords his goods cheaper than B; a man can afford a sum yearly in charity.

One who hires or charters a ship to convey goods.

Characterized by afterwit; slow-witted. Tyndale.

To cause to grow old; to impart the characteristics of age to; as, grief ages us.

Characterized by sterility; infecund.

Formed or characterized by agglutination, as a language or a compound. In agglutinative languages the union of words may be compared to mechanical compounds, in inflective languages to chemical compounds. R. Morris. Cf. man-kind, heir-loom, war-like, which are agglutinative compounds. The Finnish, Hungarian, Turkish, t…

ate. [Colloq.] If both were to aggravate her parents, as my brother and sister do mine. Richardson (Clarissa).

Tending or disposed to aggress; characterized by aggression; making assaults; unjustly attacking; as, an aggressive policy, war, person, nation. -- Ag*gres"sive*ly, adv. -- Ag*gres"sive*ness, n.

A charge or rate against lands; as, an agistment of sea banks, i. e., charge for banks or dikes.

Allied; akin. "Agnate words." Pownall. Assume more or less of a fictitious character, but congenial and agnate with the former. Landor.

her 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 of Herbert Spencer); -- opposed alike dogmatic s…

Characterized by agraphia.