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Joining; having the quality of joining; forming an adjunct.

Having qualities to excite wonder united with approbation; deserving the highest praise; most excellent; -- used of persons or things. "An admirable machine." "Admirable fortitude." Macaulay.

The quality of being admirable; wonderful excellence.

The quality of being admissible; admissibleness; as, the admissibility of evidence.

To allow (one) to enter on an office or to enjoy a privilege; to recognize as qualified for a franchise; as, to admit an attorney to practice law; the prisoner was admitted to bail.

The quality of being adolescent; youthfulness.

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

as, an adroit mechanic, an adroit reply. "Adroit in the application of the telescope and quadrant." Horsley. "He was adroit in intrigue." Macaulay.

The quality of being adroit; skill and readiness; dexterity. Adroitness was as requisite as courage. Motley.

first step towards the attainment of a result; approach made to gain favor, to form an acquaintance, to adjust a difference, etc.; an overture; a tender; an offer; -- usually in the plural. [He] made the like advances to the dissenters. Swift.

The quality or state of being adventurous; daring; venturesomeness.

The quality of being adverbial. Earle.

The quality or state of being adverse; opposition.

The act of adverting, of the quality of being advertent; attention; notice; regard; heedfulness. To this difference it is right that advertence should be had in regulating taxation. J. S. Mill.

The quality of being advisable; advisableness.

The quality of being advisable or expedient; expediency; advisability.

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

Difference of quality or property in different directions.

A secondary respiratory tissue or modified periderm, found in many aquatic plants and distinguished by the large intercellular spaces.

The quality of being affable; readiness to converse; courteousness in receiving others and in conversation; complaisant behavior. Affability is of a wonderful efficacy or power in procuring love. Elyot