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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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43,599 words match “IT”

Tending to add; making some addition. [R.] Arbuthnot.

Glandular inflammation. Dunglison.

ADHIBIT v. 3 definitions

To admit, as a person or thing; to take in. Muirhead.

The act of adhibiting; application; use. Whitaker.

Same as Adiaphorist.

ADIPOSENESS; ADIPOSITY n.

The state of being fat; fatness.

ADIT n. 2 definitions

Admission; approach; access. [R.] Yourself and yours shall have Free adit. Tennyson.

ADJECTITIOUS n.

Added; additional. Parkhurst.

ADMIRABILITY n.

Admirableness. [R.] Johnson.

ADMISSIBILITY n.

The quality of being admissible; admissibleness; as, the admissibility of evidence.

ADMIT v. 5 definitions

into the mind, or consideration; to receive; to take; as, they were into his house; to admit a serious thought into the mind; to admit evidence in the trial of a cause.

Admissible. Sir T. Browne.

ADMITTANCE n. 5 definitions

The act of admitting.

The certificate of admission given in some American colleges.

ADMITTED; ADMITTEDLY a. 2 definitions

Received as true or valid; acknowledged. -- Ad*mit"ted*ly adv.

One who admits.

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

ADMONITIONER n.

Admonisher. [Obs.]

Admonitory. [R.] Barrow. -- Ad*mon"i*tive*ly, adv.

Admonisher; monitor. Conscience is at most times a very faithful and prudent admonitor. Shenstone.