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Adventitious. Gray.

Expressing contrariety, opposition, or antithesis; as, an adversative conjunction (but, however, yet, etc. ); an adversative force. -- Ad*ver"sa*tive*ly, adv.

dverse possession (Law), a possession of real property avowedly contrary to some claim of title in another person. Abbott.

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.

Made up of terms involving different powers of the unknown quantity; adfected; as, an affected equation.

bodily state; as, figure, weight, etc. , are affections of bodies. "The affections of quantity." Boyle. And, truly, waking dreams were, more or less, An old and strange affection of the house. Tennyson.

To confirm; to assure. [Obs.] "The title is affeered." Shak.

That which is asserted; an assertion; a positive as, an affirmation, by the vender, of title to property sold, or of its quality.

Positive; -- a term applied to quantities which are to be added, and opposed to negative, or such as are to be subtracted.

prepense; previously in mind; designed; as, malice aforethought, which is required to constitute murder. Bouvier.

In Turkey, a commander or chief officer. It is used also as a title of respect.

Once repeated; -- of quantity; as, as large again, half as much again.

ace of, another, by authority from him; one intrusted with the business of another; a substitute; a deputy; a factor.

Allied; akin. "Agnate words." Pownall. Assume more or less of a fictitious character, but congenial and agnate with the former. Landor.

or be adapted in its effects; to do well; as, the same food does not agree with every constitution.

One engaged or skilled in agriculture; a husbandman. The farmer is always a practitioner, the agriculturist may be a mere theorist. Crabb.

Help; succor; assistance; relief. An unconstitutional mode of obtaining aid. Hallam.

Carriage; attitude; action; movement; as, the head of that portrait has a good air. Fairholt.

A cheerful readiness, willingness, or promptitude; joyous activity; briskness; sprightliness; as, the soldiers advanced with alacrity to meet the enemy. I have not that alacrity of spirit, Nor cheer of mind that I was wont to have. Shak.

in crystallization, and in composition a silicate of alumina and soda. It is a common constituent of granite and of various igneous rocks. See Feldspar.