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A social pretender on the lookout for advancement.

Full of hazard; attended with risk; exposing to danger; requiring courage; rash; -- applied to acts; as, an adventurous undertaking, deed, song.

; their opinion is merely advisory. The General Association has a general advisory superintendence over all the ministers and churches. Trumbull.

acterized by the absence of power or force. Adynamic fevers, malignant or putrid fevers attended with great muscular debility.

A magistrate in ancient Rome, who had the superintendence of public buildings, highways, shows, etc.; hence, a municipal officer.

To tend to by affinity or disposition. The drops of every fluid affect a round figure. Newton.

Given to false show; assuming or pretending to posses what is not natural or real. He is . . . too spruce, too affected, too odd. Shak.

Lovingly; with tender care. [Obs.] Shak.

One who affects, assumes, pretends, or strives after. "Affecters of wit." Abp. Secker.

c. ; the malevolent affections, hatred, envy, etc.; inclination; disposition; propensity; tendency. Affection is applicable to an unpleasant as well as a pleasant state of the mind, when impressed by any object or quality. Cogan.

Proceeding from affection; indicating love; tender; as, the affectionate care of a parent; affectionate countenance, message, language.

With affection; lovingly; fondly; tenderly; kindly.

Tending to affect; affecting. [Obs.] Burnet.

To connect in the way of descent; to trace origin to. How do these facts tend to affiliate the faculty of hearing upon the aboriginal vegetative processes H. Spencer.

Tending to affront or offend; offensive; abusive. How affrontive it is to despise mercy. South.

ivid sensation retained by the retina of the eye after the cause has been removed; also extended to impressions left of tones, smells, etc.

The seaman or seamen stationed on the poop or after part of the ship, to attend the after-sails. Totten.

g or of exerting power; the state of being in action; action; instrumentality. The superintendence and agency of Providence in the natural world. Woodward.

Having a tendency to gather together, or to make collections. Taylor is eminently discursive, accumulative, and (to use one of his own words) agglomerative. Coleridge.

Uniting, as glue; causing, or tending to cause, adhesion. -- n.