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

The act of adoring; adoration. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

With adoration.

An adorning; an ornament; a decoration.

llegal. 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.

The arrangement of the petals in a flower bud, as to folding, overlapping, etc.; prefloration. Gray. [Spelt also estivation.]

A vessel of porous earthenware, used for cooling liquids by evaporation from the exterior surface.

Tending to ameliorate; producing amelioration or improvement; as, ameliorative remedies, efforts.

The act or right of alienating lands to a corporation, which was considered formerly as transferring them to dead hands, or in mortmain.

To alienate in mortmain, that is, to convey to a corporation. See Mortmain.

Producing vomiting or expectoration. -- n.

ng exists, so that the name can no longer be applied to it; as, the annihilation of a corporation.

The day on which Mass is said yearly for the soul of a deceased person; the commemoration of some sacred event, as the dedication of a church or the consecration of a pope.

t, but in such a manner as to produce the effect desired. [For example, see Mark Antony's oration. Shak., Julius Cæsar, iii. 2.]

A honorary part or exercise, as an oration, etc., at a public exhibition of a college; as, to have an appointment. [U.S.]

To annex, as a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property. Blackstone.

The severing or sequestering of a benefice to the perpetual use of a spiritual corporation. Blackstone.

A spiritual corporation possessed of an appropriated benefice; also, an impropriator.

The entire property of all sorts, belonging to a person, a corporation, or an estate; as, the assets of a merchant or a trading association; -- opposed to liabilities.

companied with a wheezing sound, a sense of constriction in the chest, a cough, and expectoration.