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One who administers affairs; one who directs, manages, executes, or dispenses, whether in civil, judicial, political, or ecclesiastical affairs; a manager.

The position or office of an administrator.

A woman who administers; esp., one who administers the estate of an intestate, or to whom letters of administration have been granted; a female administrator.

The quality of being admissible; admissibleness; as, the admissibility of evidence.

worthy of being admitted; that may be allowed or conceded; allowable; as, the supposition is hardly admissible. -- Ad*mis"si*ble*ness, n. -- Ad*mis"si*bly, adv.

Power or permission to enter; admittance; entrance; access; power to approach. What numbers groan for sad admission there! Young.

Implying an admission; tending to admit. [R.] Lamb.

Pertaining to admission.

o warn or notify of a fault; to reprove gently or kindly, but seriously; to exhort. "Admonish him as a brother." 2 Thess. iii. 15.

One who admonishes.

Admonition. [R.] Shak.

A youth beloved by Venus for his beauty. He was killed in the chase by a wild boar.

brew word translated "Jehovah" are really the vowel points of the word "Adonai." See Jehovist.

One of a sect which maintained that Christ was the Son of God not by nature but by adoption.

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

To give notice to; to inform or apprise; to notify; to make known; hence, to warn; -- often followed by of before the subject of information; as, to advertise a man of his loss. [Archaic] I will advertise thee what this people shall do. Num. xxiv. 14.

The act of informing or notifying; notification. [Archaic] An advertisement of danger. Bp. Burnet.

One who, or that which, advertises.

The quality of being advisable; advisableness.

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