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Advice; exhortation. [Obs.] Peacham.

The act or process of changing into adipocere.

The act or mode of adding; also, the thing added. [R.] B. Jonson.

Pertaining to adjection; that is, or may be, annexed. [R.] Earle.

A deliberate determination by the judicial power; a judicial decision or sentence. "An adjudication in favor of natural rights." Burke.

The act of joining; the thing joined or added.

The act of adjuring; a solemn charging on oath, or under the penalty of a curse; an earnest appeal. What an accusation could not effect, an adjuration shall. Bp. Hall.

of joining their own ministers with those of the emperor in public treaties and negotiations to the common interest of the empire. Encyc. Brit.

See Allocution. [Obs.]

Same as Admeasurement.

administering; government of public affairs; the service rendered, or duties assumed, in conducting affairs; the conducting of any office or employment; direction; management. His financial administration was of a piece with his military administration. Macaulay.

Wonder; astonishment. [Obs.] Season your admiration for a while. Shak.

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

A mingling of different things; admixture. Glanvill.

To 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.

Gentle or friendly reproof; counseling against a fault or error; expression of authoritative advice; friendly caution or warning.

Admonisher. [Obs.]

Admonitory. [R.] Barrow. -- Ad*mon"i*tive*ly, adv.