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Proper to be added; positive; -- opposed to subtractive.

has not had its flowers botanically examined, and therefore has not been referred to its proper genus.

from something else. Thus, in phrase, "a wise ruler," wise is the adjective, expressing a property of ruler.

A quality or property of the body or the mind, whether natural or acquired; as, color, in the body, judgment in the mind.

To make exact; to fit; to make correspondent or conformable; to bring into proper relations; as, to adjust a garment to the body, or things to a standard.

The act of adjusting, or condition of being adjusted; act of bringing into proper relations; regulation. Success depends on the nicest and minutest adjustment of the parts concerned. Paley.

To determine the proper share of, or the proper apportionment; as, to admeasure dower; to admeasure common of pasture. Blackstone.

t 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.

Property given, usually by a parent to a child, in advance of a future distribution.

Out of the proper or usual place; as, adventitious buds or roots.

as we endure an adverse fortune. Southey. Adverse possession (Law), a possession of real property avowedly contrary to some claim of title in another person. Abbott.

Proper to be advised or to be done; expedient; prudent. Some judge it advisable for a man to account with his heart every day. South.

Exhibiting differences of quality or property in different directions; not isotropic. Sir W. Thomson.

Difference of quality or property in different directions.

The science which treats of the properties of the air, and of the part it plays in nature. Craig.

An attribute; a quality or property; a condition; a 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.

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

y; to attach physically. Should they [caterpillars] affix them to the leaves of a plant improper for their food. Ray.

An abundant supply, as of thought, words, feelings, etc.; profusion; also, abundance of property; wealth. And old age of elegance, affluence, and ease. Coldsmith.

One in favor of an equal division of landed property.