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To cohabit. [Obs.] We with the best men accustom openly; you with the basest commit private adulteries. Milton.

pain, or in continued pain; to be distressed. "My old bones ache." Shak. The sins that in your conscience ache. Keble.

To recognize. [Obs.] "You will not be acknown, sir." B. Jonson.

the particulars of an act. Acquaint her here of my son Paris' love. Shak. I must acquaint you that I have received New dated letters from Northumberland. Shak.

To quiet. [Obs.] Acquiet his mind from stirring you against your own peace. Sir A. Sherley.

writing which is evidence of a discharge; a receipt in full, which bars a further demand. You can produce acquittances For such a sum, from special officers. Shak.

or comprising action; active. [Obs.] Her walking and other actual performances. Shak. Let your holy and pious intention be actual; that is . . . by a special prayer or action, . . . given to God. Jer. Taylor.

To carry out in practice; to perform. [Obs.] "To actuate what you command." Jer. Taylor.

it for a new use; -- sometimes followed by to or for. For nature, always in the right, To your decays adapts my sight. Swift. Appeals adapted to his [man's] whole nature. Angus. Streets ill adapted for the residence of wealthy persons. Macaulay.

addition. To add to, to augment; to increase; as, it adds to our anxiety. "I will add to your yoke." 1 Kings xii. 14.

ny one or any thing); to make, as a speech, petition, etc. (to any one, an audience). The young hero had addressed his players to him for his assistance. Dryden.

The union of parts which are separate in other plants, or in younger states of the same plant.

Admission; approach; access. [R.] Yourself and yours shall have Free adit. Tennyson.

Wonder; astonishment. [Obs.] Season your admiration for a while. Shak.

ittance; entrance; access; power to approach. What numbers groan for sad admission there! Young.

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.

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