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that an admission presupposes prior inquiry by another, but a confession may be made without such inquiry.

right of entrance; also, actual entrance; reception. To gain admittance into the house. South. He desires admittance to the king. Dryden. To give admittance to a thought of fear. Shak.

To instruct or direct; to inform; to notify. Moses was admonished of God, when he was about to make the tabernacle. Heb. viii. 5.

Doing; trouble; difficulty; troublesome business; fuss; bustle; as, to make a great ado about trifles. With much ado, he partly kept awake. Dryden. Let's follow to see the end of this ado. Shak.

The state of growing up from childhood to manhood or womanhood; youth, or the period of life between puberty and maturity, generally considered to be, in the male sex, from fourteen to twenty-one. Sometimes used with reference to the lower animals.

The quality of being adolescent; youthfulness.

A youth.

A youth beloved by Venus for his beauty. He was killed in the chase by a wild boar.

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

nd affection; to idolize. The great mass of the population abhorred Popery and adored Montouth. Macaulay.

Impregnation by external contact, without intromission.

ttery; praise in excess, or beyond what is merited. Think'st thou the fiery fever will go out With titles blown from adulation Shak.

Proceeding from adulterous intercourse. Hence: Spurious; without 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.

Injury; degradation; ruin. [Obs.] You might wrest the caduceus out of my hand to the adultery and spoil of nature. B. Jonson.

To give a faint shadow or slight representation of; to outline; to shadow forth. Both in the vastness and the richness of the visible universe the invisible God is adumbrated. L. Taylor.

A faint sketch; an outline; an imperfect portrayal or representation of a thing. Elegant adumbrations of sacred truth. Bp. Horsley.

dan. -- To take advantage of, to profit by; (often used in a bad sense) to overreach, to outwit.

Coming from outward causes; superadded. [Obs.]

o things of great dimensions, if we annex an adventitious idea of terror, they become without comparison greater. Burke.

A thing or person coming from without; an immigrant. [R.] Bacon.