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One of a religious body, embracing several branches, who look for the proximate personal coming of Christ; -- called also Second Adventists. Schaff-Herzog Encyc.

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

Characterized by the absence of power or force. Adynamic fevers, malignant or putrid fevers attended with great muscular debility.

Light as air; ethereal. Aërial acid, carbonic acid. [Obs.] Ure. -- Aërial perspective. See Perspective.

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 science of gliding and soaring flight.

To dispose or incline. Men whom they thought best affected to religion and their country's liberty. Milton.

Plighted faith; marriage contract or promise.

Inflames; glowing with light or passion; ablaze. G. Eliot.

, and never age for all that. Holland. I am aging; that is, I have a whitish, or rather a light-colored, hair here and there. Landor.

feeling by discussion, appeals, etc.; as, the antislavery agitation; labor agitation. "Religious agitations." Prescott.

Paroxysm of joy; keen emotion. With cries and agonies of wild delight. Pope.

exclamation, expressive of surprise, pity, complaint, entreaty, contempt, threatening, delight, triumph, etc., according to the manner of utterance.

r Being of the ancient Persians; the Prince of Darkness as opposer to Ormuzd, the King of Light.

Symbolically: Something unsubstantial, light, or volatile. "Charm ache with air." Shak. He was still all air and fire. Macaulay . [Air and fire being the finer and quicker elements as opposed to earth and water.]

In an airy manner; lightly; gaily; jauntily; fippantly.

Lightness of spirits; gayety; levity; as, the airiness of young persons.

A thoughtless, gay person. [Obs.] "Slight airlings." B. Jonson.

Relating or belonging to air; high in air; aërial; as, an airy flight. "The airy region." Milton.

Slightly turned or opened; as, the door was standing ajar.