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Proceeding 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.

Coming from outward causes; superadded. [Obs.]

A thing or person coming from without; an immigrant. [R.] Bacon.

Information or notice given; intelligence; as, late advices from France; -- commonly in the plural.

The process of removing a cause from an inferior court to the supreme court. Bell.

rs. It answers to the Gr. æ was generally replaced by a, the long e or ee. In derivatives from Latin words with ae, it is mostly superseded by e. For most words found with this initial combination, the reader will therefore search under the letter E.

or cylinder) with one or more projecting bent tubes, through which steam is made to pass from the vessel, causing it to revolve. [Written also eolipile.]

ly with carbonic acid gas, formerly called fixed air. His sparkling sallies bubbled up as from aërated natural fountains. Carlyle.

Like, or from, the air; in an aërial manner. "A murmur heard aërially." Tennyson.

The act of becoming aërified, or of changing from a solid or liquid form into an aëriform state; the state of being aëriform.

A stone, or metallic mass, which has fallen to the earth from distant space; a meteorite; a meteoric stone.

Divination from the state of the air or from atmospheric substances; also, forecasting changes in the weather.

A plant growing entirely in the air, and receiving its nourishment from it; an air plant or epiphyte.

At, to, or from a great distance; far away; -- often used with from preceding, or off following; as, he was seen from afar; I saw him afar off. The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar. Beattie.

To afflict with, or perish from, hunger. [Obs.] Spenser.

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

n; -- opposed to efferent; as, afferent vessels; afferent nerves, which convey sensations from the external organs to the brain.

Related by marriage; from the same source.

Free from affliction.

A flowing to or towards; a concourse; an influx. The affluence of young nobles from hence into Spain. Wotton. There is an unusual affluence of strangers this year. Carlyle.