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The act of adjudging; judicial decision; adjudication. Sir W. Temple.

The act of adjuring; a solemn charging on oath, or under the penalty of a curse; an earnest appeal. What an accusation could not effect, an adjuration shall. Bp. Hall.

The act of adjusting, or condition of being adjusted; act of bringing into proper relations; regulation. Success depends on the nicest and minutest adjustment of the parts concerned. Paley.

Executive; acting; managing affairs. -- n.

The granting of an argument or position not fully proved; the act of acknowledging something The too easy admission of doctrines. Macaulay.

The choosing and making that to be one's own which originally was not so; acceptance; as, the adoption of opinions. Jer. Taylor.

n; knowledge. [Obs.] How shall I dote on her with more advice, That thus without advice begin to love her Shak.

The right of presenting to a vacant benefice or living in the church. [Originally, the relation of a patron (advocatus) or protector of a benefice, and thus privileged to nominate or present to it.]

oxygenate (the blood) by respiration; to arterialize. Aërated bread, bread raised by charging dough with carbonic acid gas, instead of generating the gas in the dough by fermentation.

The act or preparation of charging with carbonic acid gas or with oxygen.

That which supplies with air; esp. an apparatus used for charging mineral waters with gas and in making soda water.

A sickness felt by aëronauts due to high speed of flights and rapidity in changing altitudes, combining some symptoms of mountain sickness and some of seasickness.

The act of becoming aërified, or of changing from a solid or liquid form into an aëriform state; the state of being aëriform.

Of or belonging to the summer; as, æstival diseases. [Spelt also estival.]

on of causes; esp., the investigation of the causes of any disease; the science of the origin and development of things.

Capable of being affiliated to or on, or connected with in origin.

To connect in the way of descent; to trace origin to. How do these facts tend to affiliate the faculty of hearing upon the aboriginal vegetative processes H. Spencer.

to the face by demeanor or language; to treat with marked incivility. How can any one imagine that the fathers would have dared to affront the wife of Aurelius Addison.

A native of Africa; also one ethnologically belonging to an African race.

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