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The act of acknowledging; admission; avowal; owning; confession. "An acknowledgment of fault." Froude.

The act of acquiring, or that which is acquired; attainment. "Rules for the acquirement of a taste." Addison. His acquirements by industry were . . . enriched and enlarged by many excellent endowments of nature. Hayward.

Acquittal. [Obs.] Milton.

Quickness of perception or discernment; penetration of mind; the faculty of nice discrimination. Selden.

a thing added. Fuller. My persuasion that the latter verses of the chapter were an additament of a later age. Coleridge.

The act of adjourning; the putting off till another day or time specified, or without day.

The act of adjudging; judicial decision; adjudication. Sir W. Temple.

Help; support; also, a helper. [Obs.] Waterhouse.

nging into proper relations; regulation. Success depends on the nicest and minutest adjustment of the parts concerned. Paley.

Same as Admeasurement.

Admonition. [R.] Shak.

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

An adorning; an ornament; a decoration.

The act of advancing, or the state of being advanced; progression; improvement; furtherance; promotion to a higher place or dignity; as, the advancement of learning. In heaven . . . every one (so well they love each other) rejoiceth and hath his part in each other's advancement. Sir T. More. True religion . . . propose…

The act of informing or notifying; notification. [Archaic] An advertisement of danger. Bp. Burnet.

Counsel; advise; information. [Archaic] And mused awhile, waking advisement takes of what had passed in sleep. Daniel.

Starvation. Bp. Hall.

The act of affeering. Blackstone.

A reënforcement; a strengthening. Hallam.

See Afforcement. [Obs.]