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To adopt (a person who is his own master).

To flatter in a servile way. Byron.

, debase, or make impure by an admixture of a foreign or a baser substance; as, to adulterate food, drink, drugs, coin, etc. The present war has . . . adulterated our tongue with strange words. Spectator.

Both in the vastness and the richness of the visible universe the invisible God is adumbrated. L. Taylor.

Having opposite leaves, as plants which have the leaves so arranged on the stem.

One who defends, vindicates, or espouses any cause by argument; a pleader; as, an advocate of free trade, an advocate of truth.

Office or duty of an advocate.

carbonic acid gas, formerly called fixed air. His sparkling sallies bubbled up as from aërated natural fountains. Carlyle.

To pass the summer in a state of torpor. [Spelt also estivate.]

To infatuate. [Obs.] Milton.

Having affection or warm regard; loving; fond; as, an affectionate brother.

Disposed; inclined. [Obs.] Affectionated to the people. Holinshed.

With affection; lovingly; fondly; tenderly; kindly.

The quality of being affectionate; fondness; affection.

ly as a son; hence, to bring or receive into close connection; to ally. Is the soul affiliated to God, or is it estranged and in rebellion I. Taylor.

A combination of a stop, or explosive, with an immediately following fricative or spirant of corresponding organic position, as pf in german Pfeffer, pepper, z (= ts) in German Zeit, time.

On the way; agoing; as, to be agate; to set the bells agate. [Obs.] Cotgrave.

To heap up. [Obs.] Foxe.

a ball; hence, to gather into a mass or anything like a mass. Where he builds the agglomerated pile. Cowper.

Collected into a ball, heap, or mass.