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rocess of adapting, or fitting; or the state of being adapted or fitted; fitness. "Adaptation of the means to the end." Erskine.

Adaptation. Cheyne.

The state of being addicted; devotion; inclination. "His addiction was to courses vain." Shak.

The act of adding two or more things together; -- opposed to subtraction or diminution. "This endless addition or addibility of numbers." Locke.

Added; supplemental; in the way of an addition.

By way of addition.

Additional. [R.] Herbert.

The act of addressing or directing one's course. [Rare & Obs.] Chapman.

The act of adducing or bringing forward. An adduction of facts gathered from various quarters. I. Taylor.

The revocation or taking away of a grant donation, legacy, or the like. Bouvier.

ining; attainment. [Obs.] In the wit and policy of the capitain consisteth the chief adeption of the victory. Grafton.

The act of equalizing; act or result of making adequate; an equivalent. [Obs.] Bp. Barlow.

See Affiliation. [Obs.]

See Affluxion.

The action of sticking; the state of being attached; intimate union; as the adhesion of glue, or of parts united by growth, cement, or the like.

The act of adhibiting; application; use. Whitaker.

Advice; exhortation. [Obs.] Peacham.

The act or process of changing into adipocere.

The act or mode of adding; also, the thing added. [R.] B. Jonson.

Pertaining to adjection; that is, or may be, annexed. [R.] Earle.