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Admiration. [Obs.] Spenser.

To be capable of; to permit; as, the words do not admit such a construction. In this sense, of may be used after the verb, or may be omitted. Both Houses declared that they could admit of no treaty with the king. Hume.

To counsel against wrong practices; to cation or advise; to warn against danger or an offense; -- followed by of, against, or a subordinate clause. Admonishing one another in psalms and hymns. Col. iii. 16. I warned thee, I admonished thee, foretold The danger, and the lurking enemy. Milton.

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

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

of addressing as a god. The more immediate objects of popular adoration amongst the heathens were deified human beings. Farmer.

To adorn. [Obs.] Congealed little drops which do the morn adore. Spenser.

Adornment. [Obs.] Spenser.

situation; downward; down, to or on the ground. [Archaic] "Thrice did she sink adown." Spenser.

The fine and penalty imposed for the offense of adultery.

To extol; to laud. [Obs.] Greatly advancing his gay chivalry. Spenser.

e had the honor." Sheridan. -- To take advantage of, to profit by; (often used in a bad sense) to overreach, to outwit.

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.

That which happens without design; chance; hazard; hap; hence, chance of danger or loss. Nay, a far less good to man it will be found, if she must, at all adventures, be fastened upon him individually. Milton.

A word used to modify the sense of a verb, participle, adjective, or other adverb, and usually placed near it; as, he writes well; paper extremely white.

Consideration; deliberation; consultation. Tempering the passion with advisement slow. Spenser.

ocate the cause of thy client. Bp. Sanderson (1624). This is the only thing distinct and sensible, that has been advocated. Burke. Eminent orators were engaged to advocate his cause. Mitford.

Award. [Obs.] Spenser.

An instrument for ascertaining the weight or density of air and gases.

asuring the air, including the doctrine of its pressure, elasticity, rarefaction, and condensation; pneumatics.