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. of what use a good reputation is, and how swift and advantageous a harbinger it is, wherever one goes. Chesterfield.

One of a religious body, embracing several branches, who look for the proximate personal coming of Christ; -- called also Second Adventists. Schaff-Herzog Encyc.

xpressing contrariety, opposition, or antithesis; as, an adversative conjunction (but, however, yet, etc. ); an adversative force. -- Ad*ver"sa*tive*ly, adv.

be done; expedient; prudent. Some judge it advisable for a man to account with his heart every day. South.

Considerable debility of the vital powers, as in typhoid fever. Dunglison.

Characterized by the absence of power or force. Adynamic fevers, malignant or putrid fevers attended with great muscular debility.

Eternal; everlasting. "Æonian hills." Tennyson.

To tend to by affinity or disposition. The drops of every fluid affect a round figure. Newton.

ly inclined; zealous. [Obs.] Johson. Man, in his love God, and desire to please him, can never be too affectionate. Sprat.

being affirmed, asserted, or declared; -- followed by of; as, an attribute affirmable of every just man.

Before. [Obs.] If he have never drunk wine afore. Shak.

cording to bulk and currency, and not after their intrinsic value. Bacon. After all, when everything has been considered; upon the whole. -- After (with the same noun preceding and following), as, wave after wave, day after day, several or many (waves, etc.) successively. -- One after another, successively. -- To be…

An old name for severwal species of Polyporus, corky fungi growing on decaying wood.

ow marks of age; as, he grew fat as he aged. They live one hundred and thirty years, and never age for all that. Holland. I am aging; that is, I have a whitish, or rather a light-colored, hair here and there. Landor.

To make worse, or more severe; to render less tolerable or less excusable; to make more offensive; to enhance; to intensify. "To aggravate my woes." Pope. To aggravate the horrors of the scene. Prescott. The defense made by the prisioner's counsel did rather aggravate than extenuate his crime. Addison.…

gravating, or making worse; -- used of evils, natural or moral; the act of increasing in severity or heinousness; something additional to a crime or wrong and enhancing its guilt or injurious consequences.

(Bot.) Composed of several florets within a common involucre, as in the daisy; or of several carpels formed from one flower, as in the raspberry.

To writhe with agony; to suffer violent anguish. To smart and agonize at every pore. Pope.

To suit or be adapted in its effects; to do well; as, the same food does not agree with every constitution.

ners or remarks; an agreeable person; fruit agreeable to the taste. A train of agreeable reveries. Goldsmith.