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Anything added; increase; augmentation; as, a piazza is an addition to a building.

To direct, as words (to any one or any thing); to make, as a speech, petition, etc. (to any one, an audience). The young hero had addressed his players to him for his assistance. Dryden.

One to whom anything is addressed.

Takes away. [Obs.] Without any sinister suspicion of anything being added or adempt. Latimn.

One fully skilled or well versed in anything; a proficient; as, adepts in philosophy.

To equal. [Obs.] It [is] an impossibility for any creature to adequate God in his eternity. Shelford.

ffairs; the service rendered, or 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.

That which is mixed with anything.

That which is used to adulterate anything. -- a. Adulterating; as, adulterant agents and processes.

g from adulterous intercourse. Hence: Spurious; without the support of law; illegal. When any particular class of artificers or traders thought proper to act as a corporation without a charter, such were called adulterine guilds. Adam Smith.

To increase or make progress in any respect; as, to advance in knowledge, in stature, in years, in price.

Any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success, or to any desired end; benefit; as, the enemy had the advantage of a more elevated position. Give me advantage of some brief discourse. Shak. The advantages of a close alliance. Macaulay.

an advantageous position; trade is advantageous to a nation. Advabtageous comparison with any other country. Prescott. You see . . . of what use a good reputation is, and how swift and advantageous a harbinger it is, wherever one goes. Chesterfield.

Coming; any important arrival; approach. Death's dreadful advent. Young. Expecting still his advent home. Tennyson.

A public notice, especially a paid notice in some public print; anything that advertises; as, a newspaper containing many advertisement.

One who defends, vindicates, or espouses any cause by argument; a pleader; as, an advocate of free trade, an advocate of truth.

A secondary respiratory tissue or modified periderm, found in many aquatic plants and distinguished by the large intercellular spaces.

The rust of any metal, esp. of brass or copper; verdigris.

e science, doctrine, or demonstration of causes; esp., the investigation of the causes of any disease; the science of the origin and development of things.

is done or is to be done; matter; concern; as, a difficult affair to manage; business of any kind, commercial, professional, or public; -- often in the plural. "At the head of affairs." Junius. "A talent for affairs." Prescott.