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The quality of being adolescent; youthfulness.

ADOLESCENT a. 2 definitions

vancing from childhood to maturity. Schools, unless discipline were doubly strong, Detain their adolescent charge too long. Cowper.

A Hebrew name for God, usually translated in the Old Testament by the word "Lord".

ADONIS n. 3 definitions

A youth beloved by Venus for his beauty. He was killed in the chase by a wild boar.

One who maintains that points of the Hebrew word translated "Jehovah" are really the vowel points of the word "Adonai." See Jehovist.

ADOOR; ADOORS n.

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

ADOPT v. 2 definitions

ationship, 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.

ADOPTER n. 2 definitions

A receiver, with two necks, opposite to each other, one of which admits the neck of a retort, and the other is joined to another receiver. It is used in distillations, to give more space to elastic vapors, to increase the length of the neck of a retort, or to unite two vessels whose openings have different diameters. […

ADOPTION n. 3 definitions

The act of adopting, or state of being adopted; voluntary acceptance of a child of other parents to be the same as one's own child.

One of a sect which maintained that Christ was the Son of God not by nature but by adoption.

ADORABLE a. 2 definitions

Deserving to be adored; worthy of divine honors. The adorable Author of Christianity. Cheyne.

ADORABLENESS n.

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

ADORATION n. 3 definitions

The 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.

ADORE v. 3 definitions

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

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

ADORN v. 3 definitions

th her jewels. Isa. lxi. 10. At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorned the venerable place. Goldsmith.

ADOWN adv. 2 definitions

From a higher to a lower situation; downward; down, to or on the ground. [Archaic] "Thrice did she sink adown." Spenser.

Visited by a dream; -- used in the phrase, To be adreamed, to dream. [Obs.]

ADRENALINE; ADRENALIN n.

talline substance, C9H13O3N, obtained from suprarenal extract, of which it is regarded as the active principle. It is used in medicine as a stimulant and hemostatic.

Pertaining to the Adriatic Sea; as, Adrian billows.