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Regarded with wonder and delight; highly prized; as, an admired poem.

Expressing admiration; as, an admiring glance. -- Ad*mir"ing*ly, adv. Shak.

The quality of being admissible; admissibleness; as, the admissibility of evidence.

to be admitted, or worthy of being admitted; that may be allowed or conceded; allowable; as, the supposition is hardly admissible. -- Ad*mis"si*ble*ness, n. -- Ad*mis"si*bly, adv.

of an argument or position not fully proved; the act of acknowledging something The too easy admission of doctrines. Macaulay.

entrance, whether into a place, or into the mind, or consideration; to receive; to take; as, they were into his house; to admit a serious thought into the mind; to admit evidence in the trial of a cause.

Concession; admission; allowance; as, the admittance of an argument. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Received as true or valid; acknowledged. -- Ad*mit"ted*ly adv.

r notify of a fault; to reprove gently or kindly, but seriously; to exhort. "Admonish him as a brother." 2 Thess. iii. 15.

That conveys admonition; warning or reproving; as, an admonitory glance. -- Ad*mon"i*to*ri*ly,, adv.

To do; in doing; as, there is nothing. "What is here ado" J. Newton.

An unburnt brick dried in the sun; also used as an adjective, as, an adobe house, in Texas or New Mexico.

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

To take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen, etc. ; esp. to take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be in the place of, or as, one's own child.

Taken by adoption; taken up as one's own; as, an adopted son, citizen, country, word. -- A*dopt"ed*ly, adv.

r state of being adopted; voluntary acceptance of a child of other parents to be the same as one's own child.

Pertaining to adoption; made or acquired by adoption; fitted to adopt; as, an adoptive father, an child; an adoptive language. -- A*dopt"ive*ly, adv.

he act of playing honor to a divine being; the worship 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.

To worship with profound reverence; to pay divine honors to; to honor as deity or as divine. Bishops and priests, . . . bearing the host, which he [James adored. Smollett.

To deck or dress with ornaments; to embellish; to set off to advantage; to render pleasing or attractive. As a bride adorneth herself with her jewels. Isa. lxi. 10. At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorned the venerable place. Goldsmith.