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Capable of being acidified, or converted into an acid.

The quality of being sour; sourness; tartness; sharpness to the taste; as, the acidity of lemon juice.

e of; to recognize as a fact or truth; to declare one's belief in; as, to acknowledge the being of a God. I acknowledge my transgressions. Ps. li. 3. For ends generally acknowledged to be good. Macaulay.

One who has received the highest of the four minor orders in the Catholic church, being ordained to carry the wine and water and the lights at the Mass.

Being without joints; jointless.

The fruit of the oak, being an oval nut growing in a woody cup or cupule.

A state of being acquainted, or of having intimate, or more than slight or superficial, knowledge; personal knowledge gained by intercourse short of that of friendship or intimacy; as, I know the man; but have no acquaintance with him. Contract no friendship, or even acquaintance, with a guileful man. Sir W. Jones.…

A state of being acquainted; acquaintance. Southey.

State of being acquainted; degree of acquaintance. [R.] Boyle.

The quality of being acquiescent; acquiescence.

The quality of being acquirable; attainableness. [R.] Paley.

Capable of being acquired.

The quality of being acquisitive; propensity to acquire property; desire of possession.

The quality of being acrid or pungent; irritant bitterness; acrimony; as, the acridity of a plant, of a speech.

The quality of being acrimonious; asperity; acrimony.

A statue whose extremities are of stone, the trunk being generally of wood. Elmes.

Capable of being acted. Tennyson.

The quality of being active; nimbleness; quickness of motion; activity.

The state or quality of being active; nimbleness; agility; vigorous action or operation; energy; active force; as, an increasing variety of human activities. "The activity of toil." Palfrey.

In action at the time being; now exiting; present; as the actual situation of the country. Actual cautery. See under Cautery. -- Actual sin (Theol.), that kind of sin which is done by ourselves in contradistinction to "original sin."