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A deliberate determination by the judicial power; a judicial decision or sentence. "An adjudication in favor of natural rights." Burke.

The act of joining; the thing joined or added.

lemn charging on oath, or under the penalty of a curse; an earnest appeal. What an accusation could not effect, an adjuration shall. Bp. Hall.

e of joining their own ministers with those of the emperor in public treaties and negotiations to the common interest of the empire. Encyc. Brit.

See Allocution. [Obs.]

Same as Admeasurement.

duties assumed, in conducting affairs; the conducting of any office or employment; direction; management. His financial administration was of a piece with his military administration. Macaulay.

Wonder; astonishment. [Obs.] Season your admiration for a while. Shak.

Power or permission to enter; admittance; entrance; access; power to approach. What numbers groan for sad admission there! Young.

A mingling of different things; admixture. Glanvill.

Gentle or friendly reproof; counseling against a fault or error; expression of authoritative advice; friendly caution or warning.

Admonisher. [Obs.]

The reducing or lands or tenements to mortmain. See Mortmain.

The adhesion or cohesion of different floral verticils or sets of organs.

Admission to a more intimate relation; reception; as, the adoption of persons into hospitals or monasteries, or of one society into another.

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

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.

Adornment. [Obs.]

Impregnation by external contact, without intromission.

A kind of adoption in ancient Rome. See Arrogation.