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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Addle \Ad"dle\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. {Addled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Addling}.] To make addle; to grow addle; to muddle; as, he addled his brain. [bd]Their eggs were addled.[b8] --Cowper. | |
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Addle-brain \Ad"dle-brain`\, Addle-head \Ad"dle-head`\, Addle-pate \Ad"dle-pate\, n. A foolish or dull-witted fellow. [Colloq.] | |
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Addle-brained \Ad"dle-brained`\, Addle-headed \Ad"dle-head`ed\, Addle-pated \Ad"dle-pa`ted\, a. Dull-witted; stupid. [bd]The addle-brained Oberstein.[b8] --Motley. Dull and addle-pated. --Dryden. | |
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Adulate \Ad"u*late\, v. t. [L. adulatus, p. p. of adulari.] To flatter in a servile way. --Byron. | |
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Adulation \Ad`u*la"tion\, n. [F. adulation, fr. L. adulatio, fr. adulari, adulatum, to flatter.] Servile flattery; praise in excess, or beyond what is merited. Think'st thou the fiery fever will go out With titles blown from adulation? --Shak. Syn: Sycophancy; cringing; fawning; obsequiousness; blandishment. Usage: {Adulation}, {Flattery}, {Compliment}. Men deal in compliments from a desire to please; they use flattery either from undue admiration, or a wish to gratify vanity; they practice adulation from sordid motives, and with a mingled spirit of falsehood and hypocrisy. Compliment may be a sincere expression of due respect and esteem, or it may be unmeaning; flattery is apt to become gross; adulation is always servile, and usually fulsome. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Adulator \Ad"u*la`tor\, n. [L., fr. adulari: cf. F. adulateur.] A servile or hypocritical flatterer. --Carlyle. | |
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Adulatory \Ad"u*la*to*ry\, a. [L. adulatorius, fr. adulari: cf. OF. adulatoire.] Containing excessive praise or compliment; servilely praising; flattering; as, an adulatory address. A mere rant of adulatory freedom. --Burke. | |
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Adulatress \Ad"u*la`tress\, n. A woman who flatters with servility. | |
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Adult \A*dult"\, a. [L. adultus, p. p. of adolescere, akin to alere to nourish: cf. F. adulte. See {Adolescent}, {Old}.] Having arrived at maturity, or to full size and strength; matured; as, an adult person or plant; an adult ape; an adult age. | |
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Adult \A*dult"\, n. A person, animal, or plant grown to full size and strength; one who has reached maturity. Note: In the common law, the term is applied to a person who has attained full age or legal majority; in the civil law, to males after the age of fourteen, and to females after twelve. | |
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Adulter \A*dul"ter\, v. i. [L. adulterare.] To commit adultery; to pollute. [Obs.] --B. Jonson. | |
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Adulterant \A*dul"ter*ant\, n. [L. adulterans, p. pr. of adulterare.] That which is used to adulterate anything. -- a. Adulterating; as, adulterant agents and processes. | |
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Adulterate \A*dul"ter*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Adulterated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Adulterating}.] [L. adulteratus, p. p. of adulterare, fr. adulter adulterer, prob. fr. ad + alter other, properly one who approaches another on account of unlawful love. Cf. {Advoutry}.] 1. To defile by adultery. [Obs.] --Milton. 2. To corrupt, debase, or make impure by an admixture of a foreign or a baser substance; as, to adulterate food, drink, drugs, coin, etc. The present war has . . . adulterated our tongue with strange words. --Spectator. Syn: To corrupt; defile; debase; contaminate; vitiate; sophisticate. | |
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Adulterate \A*dul"ter*ate\, v. i. To commit adultery. [Obs.] | |
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Adulterate \A*dul"ter*ate\, a. 1. Tainted with adultery. 2. Debased by the admixture of a foreign substance; adulterated; spurious. -- {A*dul"ter*ate*ly}, adv. -- {A*dul"ter*ate*ness}, n. | |
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Adulterate \A*dul"ter*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Adulterated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Adulterating}.] [L. adulteratus, p. p. of adulterare, fr. adulter adulterer, prob. fr. ad + alter other, properly one who approaches another on account of unlawful love. Cf. {Advoutry}.] 1. To defile by adultery. [Obs.] --Milton. 2. To corrupt, debase, or make impure by an admixture of a foreign or a baser substance; as, to adulterate food, drink, drugs, coin, etc. The present war has . . . adulterated our tongue with strange words. --Spectator. Syn: To corrupt; defile; debase; contaminate; vitiate; sophisticate. | |
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Adulterate \A*dul"ter*ate\, a. 1. Tainted with adultery. 2. Debased by the admixture of a foreign substance; adulterated; spurious. -- {A*dul"ter*ate*ly}, adv. -- {A*dul"ter*ate*ness}, n. | |
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Adulterate \A*dul"ter*ate\, a. 1. Tainted with adultery. 2. Debased by the admixture of a foreign substance; adulterated; spurious. -- {A*dul"ter*ate*ly}, adv. -- {A*dul"ter*ate*ness}, n. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Adulterate \A*dul"ter*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Adulterated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Adulterating}.] [L. adulteratus, p. p. of adulterare, fr. adulter adulterer, prob. fr. ad + alter other, properly one who approaches another on account of unlawful love. Cf. {Advoutry}.] 1. To defile by adultery. [Obs.] --Milton. 2. To corrupt, debase, or make impure by an admixture of a foreign or a baser substance; as, to adulterate food, drink, drugs, coin, etc. The present war has . . . adulterated our tongue with strange words. --Spectator. Syn: To corrupt; defile; debase; contaminate; vitiate; sophisticate. | |
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Adulteration \A*dul`ter*a"tion\, n. [L. adulteratio.] 1. The act of adulterating; corruption, or debasement (esp. of food or drink) by foreign mixture. The shameless adulteration of the coin. --Prescott. 2. An adulterated state or product. | |
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Adulterator \A*dul"ter*a`tor\, n. [L.] One who adulterates or corrupts. [R.] --Cudworth. | |
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Adulterer \A*dul"ter*er\, n. [Formed fr. the verb adulter, with the E. ending -er. See {Advoutrer}.] 1. A man who commits adultery; a married man who has sexual intercourse with a woman not his wife. 2. (Script.) A man who violates his religious covenant. --Jer. ix. 2. | |
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Adulteress \A*dul"ter*ess\, n. [Fem. from L. adulter. Cf. {Advoutress}.] 1. A woman who commits adultery. 2. (Script.) A woman who violates her religious engagements. --James iv. 4. | |
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Adultery \A*dul"ter*y\, n.; pl. {Adulteries}. [L. adulterium. See {Advoutry}.] 1. The unfaithfulness of a married person to the marriage bed; sexual intercourse by a married man with another than his wife, or voluntary sexual intercourse by a married woman with another than her husband. | |
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Adulterine \A*dul"ter*ine\, a.[L. adulterinus, fr. adulter.] 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. | |
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Adulterine \A*dul"ter*ine\, n. An illegitimate child. [R.] | |
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Adulterize \A*dul"ter*ize\, v. i. To commit adultery. --Milton. | |
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Adulterous \A*dul"ter*ous\, a. 1. Guilty of, or given to, adultery; pertaining to adultery; illicit. --Dryden. 2. Characterized by adulteration; spurious. [bd]An adulterous mixture.[b8] [Obs.] --Smollett. | |
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Adulterously \A*dul"ter*ous*ly\, adv. In an adulterous manner. | |
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Adultery \A*dul"ter*y\, n.; pl. {Adulteries}. [L. adulterium. See {Advoutry}.] 1. The unfaithfulness of a married person to the marriage bed; sexual intercourse by a married man with another than his wife, or voluntary sexual intercourse by a married woman with another than her husband. | |
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Adultness \A*dult"ness\, n. The state of being adult. | |
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Atelets sauce \A`te*lets" sauce\or d8Sauce aux hatelets \[d8]Sauce` aux ha`te*lets"\ [F. h[83]telet skewer.] A sauce (such as egg and bread crumbs) used for covering bits of meat, small birds, or fish, strung on skewers for frying. | |
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Rhinoceros \Rhi*noc"e*ros\, n. [L., fr. Gr. [?][?][?], [?][?][?]; [?][?][?]. [?][?][?], the nose + [?][?][?] a horn: cf. F. rhinoc[82]ros. See {Horn}.] (Zo[94]l.) Any pachyderm belonging to the genera {Rhinoceros}, {Atelodus}, and several allied genera of the family {Rhinocerotid[91]}, of which several living, and many extinct, species are known. They are large and powerful, and usually have either one or two stout conical median horns on the snout. Note: The Indian, or white, and the Javan rhinoceroses ({Rhinoceros Indicus} and {R. Sondaicus}) have incisor and canine teeth, but only one horn, and the very thick skin forms shieldlike folds. The two or three African species belong to {Atelodus}, and have two horns, but lack the dermal folds, and the incisor and canine teeth. The two Malay, or East Indian, two-horned species belong to {Ceratohinus}, in which incisor and canine teeth are present. See {Borele}, and {Keitloa}. {Rhinoceros auk} (Zo[94]l.), an auk of the North Pacific ({Cerorhina monocrata}) which has a deciduous horn on top of the bill. {Rhinoceros beetle} (Zo[94]l.), a very large beetle of the genus {Dynastes}, having a horn on the head. {Rhinoceros bird}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) A large hornbill ({Buceros rhinoceros}), native of the East Indies. It has a large hollow hornlike process on the bill. Called also {rhinoceros hornbill}. See {Hornbill}. (b) An African beefeater ({Buphaga Africana}). It alights on the back of the rhinoceros in search of parasitic insects. | |
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Borele \Bor"e*le\, n. (Zo[94]l.) The smaller two-horned rhinoceros of South Africa ({Atelodus bicornis}). | |
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d8Keitloa \[d8]Keit*lo"a\, n. [Native name.] (Zo[94]l.) A black, two-horned, African rhinoceros ({Atelodus keitloa}). It has the posterior horn about as long as the anterior one, or even longer. | |
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Umhofo \Um*ho"fo\, n. (Zo[94]l.) An African two-horned rhinoceros ({Atelodus, [or] Rhinoceros, simus}); -- called also {chukuru}, and {white rhinoceros}. | |
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d8Mahoohoo \[d8]Ma*hoo"hoo\, n. (Zo[94]l.) The African white two-horned rhinoceros ({Atelodus simus}). | |
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Athlete \Ath"lete\, n. [L. athleta, Gr. [?] prizefighter, fr. [?] to contend for a prize, [?], Hom. [?], contest, [?] prize; fr. the same root as E. wed: cf. F. athl[8a]te.] 1. (Antiq.) One who contended for a prize in the public games of ancient Greece or Rome. 2. Any one trained to contend in exercises requiring great physical agility and strength; one who has great activity and strength; a champion. 3. One fitted for, or skilled in, intellectual contests; as, athletes of debate. | |
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Athletic \Ath`let"ic\, a. [L. athleticus, Gr. [?]. See {Athlete}.] 1. Of or pertaining to athletes or to the exercises practiced by them; as, athletic games or sports. 2. Befitting an athlete; strong; muscular; robust; vigorous; as, athletic Celts. [bd]Athletic soundness.[b8] --South. -- {Ath*let"ic*al*ly}, adv. | |
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Athletic \Ath`let"ic\, a. [L. athleticus, Gr. [?]. See {Athlete}.] 1. Of or pertaining to athletes or to the exercises practiced by them; as, athletic games or sports. 2. Befitting an athlete; strong; muscular; robust; vigorous; as, athletic Celts. [bd]Athletic soundness.[b8] --South. -- {Ath*let"ic*al*ly}, adv. | |
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Athleticism \Ath*let"i*cism\, n. The practice of engaging in athletic games; athletism. | |
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Athletics \Ath*let"ics\, n. The art of training by athletic exercises; the games and sports of athletes. | |
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Athletism \Ath"le*tism\, n. The state or practice of an athlete; the characteristics of an athlete. | |
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Atilt \A*tilt"\, adv. [Pref. a- + tilt.] 1. In the manner of a tilter; in the position, or with the action, of one making a thrust. [bd]To run atilt at men.[b8] --Hudibras. 2. In the position of a cask tilted, or with one end raised. Note: [In this sense sometimes used as an adjective.] Abroach, atilt, and run Even to the lees of honor. --Beau. & Fl. | |
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Autolatry \Au*tol"a*try\, n. [Auto- + Gr. [?] worship.] Self-worship. --Farrar. | |
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From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Adultery conjugal infidelity. An adulterer was a man who had illicit intercourse with a married or a betrothed woman, and such a woman was an adulteress. Intercourse between a married man and an unmarried woman was fornication. Adultery was regarded as a great social wrong, as well as a great sin. The Mosaic law (Num. 5:11-31) prescribed that the suspected wife should be tried by the ordeal of the "water of jealousy." There is, however, no recorded instance of the application of this law. In subsequent times the Rabbis made various regulations with the view of discovering the guilty party, and of bringing about a divorce. It has been inferred from John 8:1-11 that this sin became very common during the age preceding the destruction of Jerusalem. Idolatry, covetousness, and apostasy are spoken of as adultery spiritually (Jer. 3:6, 8, 9; Ezek. 16:32; Hos. 1:2:3; Rev. 2:22). An apostate church is an adulteress (Isa. 1:21; Ezek. 23:4, 7, 37), and the Jews are styled "an adulterous generation" (Matt. 12:39). (Comp. Rev. 12.) |