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Wonder; astonishment. [Obs.] Season your admiration for a while. Shak.

Relating to or expressing admiration or wonder. [R.] Earle.

The certificate of admission given in some American colleges.

The reducing or lands or tenements to mortmain. See Mortmain.

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

The adhesion or cohesion of different floral verticils or sets of organs.

Clouded; obscured. [R.]

o a divine being; the worship paid to God; the act of addressing as a god. The more immediate objects of popular adoration amongst the heathens were deified human beings. Farmer.

Adornment. [Obs.]

Impregnation by external contact, without intromission.

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

To adopt (a person who is his own master).

A kind of adoption in ancient Rome. See Arrogation.

Additional signification. [R.] Tooke.

To flatter in a servile way. Byron.

Servile flattery; praise in excess, or beyond what is merited. Think'st thou the fiery fever will go out With titles blown from adulation Shak.

A servile or hypocritical flatterer. Carlyle.

Containing excessive praise or compliment; servilely praising; flattering; as, an adulatory address. A mere rant of adulatory freedom. Burke.

A woman who flatters with servility.

, debase, or make impure by an admixture of a foreign or a baser substance; as, to adulterate food, drink, drugs, coin, etc. The present war has . . . adulterated our tongue with strange words. Spectator.