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To convert adipocere.

The act or process of changing into adipocere.

To come to a judicial decision; as, the court adjudicated upon the case.

The act of adjudicating; the act or process of trying and determining judicially.

Adjudicating.

One who adjudicates.

Adjudication.

To yoke to. [Obs.]

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.

Containing an adjuration.

A corruption of Agitator.

A right formerly claimed by the states of the German Empire of joining their own ministers with those of the emperor in public treaties and negotiations to the common interest of the empire. Encyc. Brit.

To write in the margin. [R.] Coleridge.

Same as Admeasurement.

To administer. [R.] Milman.

the conducting of any office or employment; direction; management. His financial administration was of a piece with his military administration. Macaulay.

Pertaining to administration; administering; executive; as, an administrative body, ability, or energy. -- Ad*min"is*tra`tive*ly, adv.

A man who manages or settles the estate of an intestate, or of a testator when there is no competent executor; one to whom the right of administration has been committed by competent authority.

The position or office of an administrator.

A woman who administers; esp., one who administers the estate of an intestate, or to whom letters of administration have been granted; a female administrator.