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Of or pertaining to a sea so named, the northwestern part of which is known as the Gulf of Venice.

g at random; in a drifting condition; at the mercy of wind and waves. Also fig. So on the sea shall be set adrift. Dryden. Were from their daily labor turned adrift. Wordsworth.

To raise to a higher rank; to promote. Ahasueres . . . advanced him, and set his seat above all the princes. Esther iii. 1.

cluding the four Sundays before Christmas. Advent Sunday (Eccl.), the first Sunday in the season of Advent, being always the nearest Sunday to the feast of St. Andrew (Now. 30). Shipley.

Acquired, as diseases; accidental. -- Ad`ven*ti"tious*ly, adv. -- Ad`ven*ti"tious*ness, n.

Relating to the season of advent. Sanderson.

seded by e. For most words found with this initial combination, the reader will therefore search under the letter E.

Of or pertaining to the sea, or arm of the Mediterranean sea, east of Greece. See Archipelago.

rapidity in changing altitudes, combining some symptoms of mountain sickness and some of seasickness.

Treatment of disease by the use of air or other gases.

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

nce, doctrine, or demonstration of causes; esp., the investigation of the causes of any disease; the science of the origin and development of things.

Disease; morbid symptom; malady; as, a pulmonary affection. Dunglison.

r end; to append to; to fix to any part of; as, to affix a syllable to a word; to affix a seal to an instrument; to affix one's name to a writing.

ed or repeated pain or grief; distressing. "Jove's afflictive hand." Pope. Spreads slow disease, and darts afflictive pain. Prior.

fruit, or issue; as, grapes afford wine; olives afford oil; the earth affords fruit; the sea affords an abundant supply of fish.

To front; to face in position; to meet or encounter face to face. [Obs.] All the sea-coasts do affront the Levant. Holland. That he, as 't were by accident, may here Affront Ophelia. Shak.

act of pouring water or other fluid on the whole or a part of the body, as a remedy in disease. Dunglison.

Borne on the water; floating; on board ship. On such a full sea are we now afloat. Shak.

On a level. The bank is . . . aflush with the sea. Swinburne.