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Characterized by adulteration; spurious. "An adulterous mixture." [Obs.] Smollett.

Accidentally or sparingly spontaneous in a country or district; not fully naturalized; adventive; -- applied to foreign plants.

Pertaining to, or characterized by, debility of the vital powers; weak.

Of or pertaining to Æolia or Æolis, in Asia Minor, colonized by the Greeks, or to its inhabitants; æolic; as, the Æolian dialect.

One who exhibits affectation. [R.] Fitzed. Hall.

tatement in writing; a declaration in writing, signed and made upon oath before an authorized magistrate. Bouvier. Burrill.

To make a solemn declaration, before an authorized magistrate or tribunal, under the penalties of perjury; to testify by affirmation.

Characterized by afterwit; slow-witted. Tyndale.

A semipellucid, uncrystallized variety of quartz, presenting various tints in the same specimen. Its colors are delicately arranged in stripes or bands, or blended in clouds.

Characterized by sterility; infecund.

Of or pertaining to an agent or an agency. Fitzed. Hall.

Formed or characterized by agglutination, as a language or a compound. In agglutinative languages the union of words may be compared to mechanical compounds, in inflective languages to chemical compounds. R. Morris. Cf. man-kind, heir-loom, war-like, which are agglutinative compounds. The Finnish, Hungarian, Turkish, t…

Capable of being aggrandized.

The act of aggrandizing, or the state of being aggrandized or exalted in power, rank, honor, or wealth; exaltation; enlargement; as, the emperor seeks only the aggrandizement of his own family.

(Zoöl.) United into a common organized mass; -- said of certain compound animals.

Tending or disposed to aggress; characterized by aggression; making assaults; unjustly attacking; as, an aggressive policy, war, person, nation. -- Ag*gres"sive*ly, adv. -- Ag*gres"sive*ness, n.

To cause to suffer agony; to subject to extreme pain; to torture. He agonized his mother by his behavior. Thackeray.

Characterized by agraphia.

Description or comparative study of the customs of savage or uncivilized tribes.

In harmonized chorals, psalmody, part songs, etc., the part which bears the tune or melody -- in modern harmony usually the upper part -- is sometimes called the air.