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The act or process of changing into adipocere.

Relating to procedure. "The whole English law, substantive and adjective." Macaulay.

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

hat which is used to adulterate anything. -- a. Adulterating; as, adulterant agents and processes.

Proceeding from adulterous intercourse. Hence: Spurious; without the support of law; illegal. When any particular class of artificers or traders thought proper to act as a corporation without a charter, such were called adulterine guilds. Adam Smith.

To move or go forward; to proceed; as, he advanced to greet me.

the advantage of (any one), to have a personal knowledge of one who does not have a reciprocal knowledge. "You have the advantage of me; I don't remember ever to have had the honor." Sheridan. -- To take advantage of, to profit by; (often used in a bad sense) to overreach, to outwit.

Deliberate consideration; prudent procedure; caution.

The process of removing a cause from an inferior court to the supreme court. Bell.

in conversation; complaisant behavior. Affability is of a wonderful efficacy or power in procuring love. Elyot

Any proceeding or action which it is wished to refer to or characterize vaguely; as, an affair of honor, i. e., a duel; an affair of love, i. e., an intrigue.

Proceeding from affection; indicating love; tender; as, the affectionate care of a parent; affectionate countenance, message, language.

w do these facts tend to affiliate the faculty of hearing upon the aboriginal vegetative processes H. Spencer.

produced without sexual union. -- Ag`a*mo*ge*net"ic*al*ly, adv. All known agamogenetic processes end in a complete return to the primitive stock. Huxley.

The act or process of collecting in a mass; a heaping together. An excessive agglomeration of turrets. Warton.

The crab-eating raccoon (Procyon cancrivorus), found in the tropical parts of America.

A rodent of the genus Dasyprocta, about the size of a rabbit, peculiar to South America and the West Indies. The most common species is the Dasyprocta agouti.

The language, oral or written, embodying reciprocal promises. Abbott. Brande & C.

An aid-de-camp, so called by abbreviation; as, a general's aid. Aid prayer (Law), a proceeding by which a defendant beseeches and claims assistance from some one who has a further or more permanent interest in the matter in suit. -- To pray in aid, to beseech and claim such assistance.

ect or point, as a weapon, at a particular object; to direct, as a missile, an act, or a proceeding, at, to, or against an object; as, to aim a musket or an arrow, the fist or a blow (at something); to aim a satire or a reflection (at some person or vice).