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Deserving to be adored; worthy of divine honors. The adorable Author of Christianity. Cheyne.

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

In an adorable manner.

hip paid to God; the act of addressing as a god. The more immediate objects of popular adoration amongst the heathens were deified human beings. Farmer.

Put in dread; afraid. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Gum tragacanth. Brande & C.

That which is used to adulterate anything. -- a. Adulterating; as, adulterant agents and processes.

t, debase, or make impure by an admixture of a foreign or a baser substance; as, to adulterate food, drink, drugs, coin, etc. The present war has . . . adulterated our tongue with strange words. Spectator.

The act of adulterating; corruption, or debasement (esp. of food or drink) by foreign mixture. The shameless adulteration of the coin. Prescott.

One who adulterates or corrupts. [R.] Cudworth.

Giving a faint shadow, or slight resemblance; shadowing forth.

. Both in the vastness and the richness of the visible universe the invisible God is adumbrated. L. Taylor.

The act of adumbrating, or shadowing forth.

Faintly representing; typical. Carlyle.

Sculptured ornaments, used in classical architecture, representing rams' heads or skulls.

carbonic acid gas, formerly called fixed air. His sparkling sallies bubbled up as from aërated natural fountains. Carlyle.

Exposure to the free action of the air; airing; as, aëration of soil, of spawn, etc.

That which supplies with air; esp. an apparatus used for charging mineral waters with gas and in making soda water.

An elevated cableway.

One versed in aëography: an aërologist.