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The management of an estate of a deceased person by an executor, the strictly corresponding term execution not being in use. Administration with the will annexed, administration granted where the testator has appointed no executor, or where his appointment of an executor for any cause has failed, as by death, incompete…

here is no competent executor; one to whom the right of administration has been committed by competent authority.

Wonder mingled with approbation or delight; an emotion excited by a person or thing possessed of wonderful or high excellence; as, admiration of a beautiful woman, of a landscape, of virtue.

Acquiescence or concurrence in a statement made by another, and distinguishable from a confession in that an admission presupposes prior inquiry by another, but a confession may be made without such inquiry.

The compound formed by mixing different substances together.

t wrong practices; to cation or advise; to warn against danger or an offense; -- followed by of, against, or a subordinate clause. Admonishing one another in psalms and hymns. Col. iii. 16. I warned thee, I admonished thee, foretold The danger, and the lurking enemy. Milton.

ogether; -- said only of organic cohesion of unlike parts. An anther is adnate when fixed by its whole length to the filament. Gray.

A Hebrew name for God, usually translated in the Old Testament by the word "Lord".

A youth beloved by Venus for his beauty. He was killed in the chase by a wild boar.

To take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen, etc. ; esp. to take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be in the place of, or as, one's own child.

Taken by adoption; taken up as one's own; as, an adopted son, citizen, country, word. -- A*dopt"ed*ly, adv.

One of a sect which maintained that Christ was the Son of God not by nature but by adoption.

Pertaining to adoption; made or acquired by adoption; fitted to adopt; as, an adoptive father, an child; an adoptive language. -- A*dopt"ive*ly, adv.

A method of electing a pope by the expression of homage from two thirds of the conclave. [Pole] might have been chosen on the spot by adoration. Froude.

By adorning; decoratively.

Impregnation by external contact, without intromission.

Visited by a dream; -- used in the phrase, To be adreamed, to dream. [Obs.]

ommon feldspar, or orthoclase, which often shows pearly opalescent reflections; -- called by lapidaries moonstone.

To flatter in a servile way. Byron.

To defile by adultery. [Obs.] Milton.