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Of or pertaining to the urine; diuretic; urinary; as, uretic medicine.

Grass and sprigs beaten or trampled down by a stag passing through them. Crabb.

An abridgment; a compendium or abstract. This is an excellent abbreviature of the whole duty of a Christian. Jer. Taylor.

To renounce upon oath; to forswear; to disavow; as, to abjure allegiance to a prince. To abjure the realm, is to swear to abandon it forever.

Renunciation. [R.]

One who abjures.

The act of acclimating, or the state of being acclimated. [R.] Caldwell.

Action. [Obs.] Shak.

A mode of arresting hemorrhage resulting from wounds or surgical operations, by passing under the divided vessel a needle, the ends of which are left exposed externally on the cutaneous surface. Simpson.

To treat with acupuncture.

Adjudication.

se; to appeal to in the most solemn or impressive manner; to entreat earnestly. Joshua adjured them at that time, saying, Cursed be the man before the Lord, that riseth up and buildeth this city Jericho. Josh. vi. 26. The high priest . . . said . . . I adjure thee by the living God, that thou tell us whether thou be th…

One who adjures.

To measure.

One who admeasures.

The act of mixing; mixture.

To burn up. [Obs.] Bacon.

f danger or loss. Nay, a far less good to man it will be found, if she must, at all adventures, be fastened upon him individually. Milton.

Given to adventure.

One who adventures; as, the merchant adventurers; one who seeks his fortune in new and hazardous or perilous enterprises.