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To equal. [Obs.] It [is] an impossibility for any creature to adequate God in his eternity. Shelford.

A genus of ferns, the leaves of which shed water; maidenhair. Also, the black maidenhair, a species of spleenwort.

A mass of fat found internally; also, a fatty tumor. -- Ad`i*pom"a*tous, a.

tions; regulation. Success depends on the nicest and minutest adjustment of the parts concerned. Paley.

direct or superintend the execution, application, or conduct of; as, to administer the government or the state. For forms of government let fools contest: Whate'er is best administered is best. Pope.

Pertaining to administration, or to the executive part of government.

The act of administering; government of public affairs; the service rendered, or duties assumed, in conducting affairs; the conducting of any office or employment; direction; management. His financial administration was of a piece with his military administration. Macaulay.

rect; to inform; to notify. Moses was admonished of God, when he was about to make the tabernacle. Heb. viii. 5.

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.

Risk; danger; peril. [Obs.] He was in great adventure of his life. Berners.

Eternal; everlasting. "Æonian hills." Tennyson.

rpidity induced by the heat and dryness of summer, as in certain snails; -- opposed to hibernation.

That which is done or is to be done; matter; concern; as, a difficult affair to manage; business of any kind, commercial, professional, or public; -- often in the plural. "At the head of affairs." Junius. "A talent for affairs." Prescott.

d to efferent; as, afferent vessels; afferent nerves, which convey sensations from the external organs to the brain.

To fix the paternity of; -- said of an illegitimate child; as, to affiliate the child to (or on or upon) one man rather than another.

A divine impartation of knowledge; supernatural impulse; inspiration. A poet writing against his genius will be like a prophet without his afflatus. Spence.

a, the offspring of a white father and a "colored" mother. Also, and now commonly in Southern Africa, a native born of European settlers.

Near or towards the stern of a vessel; astern; abaft.

To ward the stern of the ship; -- applied to any object in the rear part of a vessel; as the after cabin, after hatchway.