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Containing an adjuration.

A corruption of Agitator.

A helper or assistant. [Archaic] Drayton.

Serving to help or assist; helping. [Obs.]

A man who manages or settles the estate of an intestate, or of a testator when there is no competent executor; one to whom the right of administration has been committed by competent authority.

The position or office of an administrator.

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

Admonitory. [R.] "An admonitorial tone." Dickens.

That conveys admonition; warning or reproving; as, an admonitory glance. -- Ad*mon"i*to*ri*ly,, adv.

See Astrictory.

A servile or hypocritical flatterer. Carlyle.

Containing excessive praise or compliment; servilely praising; flattering; as, an adulatory address. A mere rant of adulatory freedom. Burke.

One who adulterates or corrupts. [R.] Cudworth.

Of or pertaining to an advocate. [R.]

That which supplies with air; esp. an apparatus used for charging mineral waters with gas and in making soda water.

Giving affirmation; assertive; affirmative. Massey.

One who aggregates.

See Agister.

Formerly, an officer of the king's forest, who had the care of cattle agisted, and collected the money for the same; -- hence called gisttaker, which in England is corrupted into guest-taker.

One who agitates; one who stirs up or excites others; as, political reformers and agitators.