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Adorableness.

Deserving to be adored; worthy of divine honors. The adorable Author of Christianity. Cheyne.

The quality of being adorable, or worthy of adoration. Johnson.

In an adorable manner.

orship 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.

honor as deity or as divine. Bishops and priests, . . . bearing the host, which he [James adored. Smollett.

The act of adoring; adoration. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

One who adores; a worshiper; one who admires or loves greatly; an ardent admirer. "An adorer of truth." Clarendon. I profess myself her adorer, not her friend. Shak.

With adoration.

ents; to embellish; to set off to advantage; to render pleasing or attractive. As a bride adorneth herself with her jewels. Isa. lxi. 10. At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorned the venerable place. Goldsmith.

Adornment. [Obs.]

He who, or that which, adorns; a beautifier.

By adorning; decoratively.

An adorning; an ornament; a decoration.

Impregnation by external contact, without intromission.

to a lower situation; downward; down, to or on the ground. [Archaic] "Thrice did she sink adown." Spenser.

A governor of a province; a commander. Prescott.

A spongy, combustible substance, prepared from fungus (Boletus and Polyporus) which grows on old trees; German tinder; punk. It has been employed as a styptic by surgeons, but its common use is as tinder, for which purpose it is prepared by soaking it in a strong solution of niter. Ure.

A minister of the highest rank sent a foreign court to represent there his sovereign or country.

Of or pertaining to an ambassador. H. Walpole.