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The act of pleading for or supporting; work of advocating; intercession.

One who pleads the cause of another. Specifically: One who pleads the cause of another before a tribunal or judicial court; a counselor.

Office or duty of an advocate.

The act of advocating or pleading; plea; advocacy. [Archaic] The holy Jesus . . . sits in heaven in a perpetual advocation for us. Jer. Taylor.

Of or pertaining to an advocate. [R.]

The right of presenting to a vacant benefice or living in the church. [Originally, the relation of a patron (advocatus) or protector of a benefice, and thus privileged to nominate or present to it.]

Considerable debility of the vital powers, as in typhoid fever. Dunglison.

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

de set at right angles to the handle. It is used for chipping or slicing away the surface of wood.

A form of fruit in the cycle of development of the Rusts or Brands, an order of fungi, formerly considered independent plants.

A magistrate in ancient Rome, who had the superintendence of public buildings, highways, shows, etc.; hence, a municipal officer.

The office of an ædile. T. Arnold.

Of or pertaining to the sea, or arm of the Mediterranean sea, east of Greece. See Archipelago.

An ulcer or fistula in the inner corner of the eye.

A shield or protective armor; -- applied in mythology to the shield of Jupiter which he gave to Minerva. Also fig.: A shield; a protection.

The great epic poem of Virgil, of which the hero is Æneas.

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

An apparatus consisting chiefly of a closed vessel (as a globe or cylinder) with one or more projecting bent tubes, through which steam is made to pass from the vessel, causing it to revolve. [Written also eolipile.]

Exhibiting differences of quality or property in different directions; not isotropic. Sir W. Thomson.

Difference of quality or property in different directions.