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The position or office of an administrator.

Pertaining to admission.

Admonisher; monitor. Conscience is at most times a very faithful and prudent admonitor. Shenstone.

Admonitory. [R.] "An admonitorial tone." Dickens.

That conveys admonition; warning or reproving; as, an admonitory glance. -- Ad*mon"i*to*ri*ly,, adv.

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

At the door; of the door; as, out adoors. Shak. I took him in adoors. Vicar's Virgil (1630).

Adorableness.

Deserving to be adored; worthy of divine honors. The adorable Author of Christianity. Cheyne.

The quality of being adorable, or worthy of adoration. Johnson.

In an adorable manner.

The act of playing honor to 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.

To worship with profound reverence; to pay divine honors to; to honor as deity or as divine. Bishops and priests, . . . bearing the host, which he [James adored. Smollett.

The act of adoring; adoration. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

One who adores; a worshiper; one who admires or loves greatly; an ardent admirer. "An adorer of truth." Clarendon. I profess myself her adorer, not her friend. Shak.

With adoration.

To deck or dress with ornaments; to embellish; to set off to advantage; to render pleasing or attractive. As a bride adorneth herself with her jewels. Isa. lxi. 10. At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorned the venerable place. Goldsmith.

Adornment. [Obs.]

He who, or that which, adorns; a beautifier.

By adorning; decoratively.