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Admonisher; monitor. Conscience is at most times a very faithful and prudent admonitor. Shenstone.

Admonitory. [R.] "An admonitorial tone." Dickens.

That conveys admonition; warning or reproving; as, an admonitory glance. -- Ad*mon"i*to*ri*ly,, adv.

A female admonitor.

The reducing or lands or tenements to mortmain. See Mortmain.

The adhesion or cohesion of different floral verticils or sets of organs.

A Hebrew name for God, usually translated in the Old Testament by the word "Lord".

Pertaining to Adonis; Adonic. "Fair Adonean Venus." Faber.

Relating to Adonis, famed for his beauty. -- n.

A genus of plants of the family Ranunculaceæ, containing the pheasaut's eye (Adonis autumnalis); -- named from Adonis, whose blood was fabled to have stained the flower.

One who maintains that points of the Hebrew word translated "Jehovah" are really the vowel points of the word "Adonai." See Jehovist.

To beautify; to dandify. I employed three good hours at least in adjusting and adonozing myself. Smollett.

tate of being adopted; voluntary acceptance of a child of other parents to be the same as one's own child.

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

The act of playing honor to a divine being; the worship paid to God; the act of addressing as a god. The more immediate objects of popular adoration amongst the heathens were deified human beings. Farmer.

Adornment. [Obs.]

Impregnation by external contact, without intromission.

A kind of adoption in ancient Rome. See Arrogation.

Additional signification. [R.] Tooke.

Servile flattery; praise in excess, or beyond what is merited. Think'st thou the fiery fever will go out With titles blown from adulation Shak.