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on or manners. John the Baptist set himself with much acrimony and indignation to baffle this senseless arrogant conceit of theirs. South.

cated orally; oral; -- applied to the esoteric teachings of Aristotle, those intended for his genuine disciples, in distinction from his exoteric doctrines, which were adapted to outsiders or the public generally. Hence: Abstruse; profound.

ower exerted is the cause; a performance; a deed. That best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love. Wordsworth. Hence, in specific uses:

Gesticulation; the external deportment of the speaker, or the suiting of his attitude, voice, gestures, and countenance, to the subject, or to the feelings.

an agile and vigorous body; nimble; as, an active child or animal. Active and nervous was his gait. Wordsworth.

To give an acute sound to; as, he acutes his rising inflection too much. [R.] Walker.

ressions: by acuteness of intellect, we discern nice distinctions. Perhaps, also, he felt his professional acuteness interested in bringing it to a successful close. Sir W. Scott.

me for the embodiment of impenetrable hardness. Opposed the rocky orb Of tenfold adamant, his ample shield. Milton.

or nature, always in the right, To your decays adapts my sight. Swift. Appeals adapted to his [man's] whole nature. Angus. Streets ill adapted for the residence of wealthy persons. Macaulay.

To awaken; to arouse. [Obs.] A man that waketh of his sleep He may not suddenly well taken keep Upon a thing, ne seen it parfitly Till that he be adawed verily. Chaucer.

bituate; -- with to. "They addict themselves to the civil law." Evelyn. He is addicted to his study. Beau. & Fl. That part of mankind that addict their minds to speculations. Adventurer. His genius addicted him to the study of antiquity. Fuller. A man gross . . . and addicted to low company. Macaulay.…

The state of being addicted; devotion; inclination. "His addiction was to courses vain." Shak.

r bodies covering the upper part of the kidneys), but now known not to be dependent upon this causes exclusively. It is usually fatal.

The act of adding two or more things together; -- opposed to subtraction or diminution. "This endless addition or addibility of numbers." Locke.

To make addle; to grow addle; to muddle; as, he addled his brain. "Their eggs were addled." Cowper.

To aim; to direct. [Obs.] Chaucer. And this good knight his way with me addrest. Spenser.

To equal. [Obs.] It [is] an impossibility for any creature to adequate God in his eternity. Shelford.

Adherence; steady or firm attachment; fidelity; as, to error, to a policy. His adhesion to the Tories was bounded by his approbation of their foreign policy. De Quincey.

rmation of their lives to a further time. Barrow. 'Tis a needful fitness That we adjourn this court till further day. Shak.

To regard or hold; to judge; to deem. He adjudged him unworthy of his friendship. Knolles.