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Suited, given, or tending, to adaptation; characterized by adaptation; capable of adapting. Coleridge. -- A*dapt"ive*ly, adv.

Bringing together or towards a given point; -- a word applied to those muscles of the body which pull one part towards another. Opposed to abducent.

The certificate of admission given in some American colleges.

Guilty of, or given to, adultery; pertaining to adultery; illicit. Dryden.

Property given, usually by a parent to a child, in advance of a future distribution.

Given to adventure.

Information or notice given; intelligence; as, late advices from France; -- commonly in the plural.

The innermost sanctuary or shrine in ancient temples, whence oracles were given. Hence: A private chamber; a sanctum.

Given to false show; assuming or pretending to posses what is not natural or real. He is . . . too spruce, too affected, too odd. Shak.

Affected; given to false show. [Obs.] A drawling; affecting rouge. Shak.

Anything given as a help; bestowal. [Obs.]

y the orientals as a perfume. It is called also agalwood and aloes wood. The name is also given to some other species.

That part of the duration of a being or a thing which is between its beginning and any given time; as, what is the present age of a man, or of the earth

The premium or percentage on a better sort of money when it is given in exchange for an inferior sort. The premium or discount on foreign bills of exchange is sometimes called agio.

An additional or fourth name given by the Romans, or account of some remarkable exploit or event; as, Publius Caius Scipio Africanus.

The name is also given to various other plants; as, hemp agrimony (Eupatorium cannabinum); water agrimony (Bidens).

A person given to the use of alcoholic liquors.

An apparatus formerly used in distillation, usually made of glass or metal. It has mostly given place to the retort and worm still. Used also metaphorically. The alembic of a great poet's imagination. Brimley.

A name given to two species of the genus Smyrnium, formerly cultivated and used as celery now is; -- called also horse parsely.

A name popularly given to the officinal valerian, and to some other plants.