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Lewdness or unchastity of thought as well as act, as forbidden by the seventh commandment.

s received. (c) In the state of having advanced money on account; as, A is advance to B a thousand dollars or pounds.

To accede, or come (to); to be added to something or become a part of it, though not essential. [R.] Where no act of the will advenes as a coefficient. Coleridge.

To things of great dimensions, if we annex an adventitious idea of terror, they become without comparison greater. Burke.

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

That which happens without design; chance; hazard; hap; hence, chance of danger or loss. Nay, a far less good to man it will be found, if she must, at all adventures, be fastened upon him individually. Milton.

prone to embark in hazardous enterprise; rashly daring; -- applied to persons. Bold deed thou hast presumed, adventurous Eve. Milton.

Opposition; contrariety. [Obs.] Wyclif. Adversity is not without comforts and hopes. Bacon.

te consideration; knowledge. [Obs.] How shall I dote on her with more advice, That thus without advice begin to love her Shak.

To dispose or incline. Men whom they thought best affected to religion and their country's liberty. Milton.

elded to his habitual affiance in the divine love. Sir J. Stephen. Lancelot, my Lancelot, thou in whom I have Most joy and most affiance. Tennyson.

To declare or assert positively. Not that I so affirm, though so it seem To thee, who hast thy dwelling here on earth. Milton.

rnatural impulse; inspiration. A poet writing against his genius will be like a prophet without his afflatus. Spence.

An abundant supply, as of thought, words, feelings, etc.; profusion; also, abundance of property; wealth. And old age of elegance, affluence, and ease. Coldsmith.

To offer, provide, or supply, as in selling, granting, expending, with profit, or without loss or too great injury; as, A affords his goods cheaper than B; a man can afford a sum yearly in charity.

Unfixed; moving without guide or control; adrift; as, our affairs are all afloat.

Reproduction without the union of parents of distinct sexes: asexual reproduction.

Reproducing or produced without sexual union. -- Ag`a*mo*ge*net"ic*al*ly, adv. All known agamogenetic processes end in a complete return to the primitive stock. Huxley.

Without ganglia.

The quality of being aged; oldness. Custom without truth is but agedness of error. Milton.