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in the highest degree; to regard with the utmost esteem and affection; to idolize. The great mass of the population abhorred Popery and adored Montouth. Macaulay.

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.

Having much heat in the constitution and little serum in the blood. [Obs.] Hence: Atrabilious; sallow; gloomy.

The act of burning, or heating to dryness; the state of being thus heated or dried. [Obs.] Harvey.

To raise to a higher rank; to promote. Ahasueres . . . advanced him, and set his seat above all the princes. Esther iii. 1.

Coming; any important arrival; approach. Death's dreadful advent. Young. Expecting still his advent home. Tennyson.

ntially inherent; accidental or causal; additional; supervenient; foreign. To things of great dimensions, if we annex an adventitious idea of terror, they become without comparison greater. Burke.

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

he absence of power or force. Adynamic fevers, malignant or putrid fevers attended with great muscular debility.

The great wild-oat grass or other cornfield weed. Crabb.

The great epic poem of Virgil, of which the hero is Æneas.

The science which treats of the air and other gaseous bodies under the action of force, and of their mechanical effects.

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

That department of physics which treats of the atmosphere.

om the state of the air or from atmospheric substances; also, forecasting changes in the weather.

An instrument, proposed by Edison, for greatly intensifying speech. It consists of a phonograph diaphragm so arranged that its action opens and closes valves, producing synchronous air blasts sufficient to operate a larger diaphragm with greater amplitude of vibration.

The science that treats of the equilibrium of elastic fluids, or that of bodies sustained in them. Hence it includes aëronautics.

Treatment of disease by the use of air or other gases.

or philosophy of taste; the science of the beautiful in nature and art; esp. that which treats of the expression and embodiment of beauty by art.

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