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The act or process of changing into adipocere.

er the penalty of a curse; an earnest appeal. What an accusation could not effect, an adjuration shall. Bp. Hall.

Same as Admeasurement.

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.

hip 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.

corruption, or debasement (esp. of food or drink) by foreign mixture. The shameless adulteration of the coin. Prescott.

int sketch; an outline; an imperfect portrayal or representation of a thing. Elegant adumbrations of sacred truth. Bp. Horsley.

Exposure to the free action of the air; airing; as, aëration of soil, of spawn, etc.

The act of producing in addition. [Obs.] T. Stanley.

A heaping up; accumulation; as, aggerations of sand. [R.]

The act or process of collecting in a mass; a heaping together. An excessive agglomeration of turrets. Warton.

The repetition of the same letter at the beginning of two or more words immediately succeeding each other, or at short intervals; as in the following lines: - Behemoth, biggest born of earth, upheaved His vastness. Milton. Fly o'er waste fens and windy fields. Tennyson.

The act of altering or making different. Alteration, though it be from worse to better, hath in it incoveniences. Hooker.

iorating, or the state of being ameliorated; making or becoming better; improvement; melioration. "Amelioration of human affairs." J. S. Mill.

An administration subordinate to, and in aid of, the primary or principal administration of an estate.

Addition to a former number. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

A balancing; equipoise. [R.] De Quincey.

Plowing; tillage. [R.] Lands are said to be in a state of aration when they are under tillage. Brande.