To apply one’s self habitually; to devote time and attention by customary or constant practice; sometimes in a good sense. NWAD ADDICT.3
They have addicted themselves to the ministry of the saints. 1 Corinthians 16:15. NWAD ADDICT.4
More usually, in a bad sense, to follow customarily, or devote, by habitually practicing that which is ill; as, a man is addicted to intemperance. NWAD ADDICT.5
To addict one’s self to a person, a sense borrowed from the Romans, who used the word for assigning debtors in service to their creditors, is found in Ben Jonson, but is not legitimate in English. NWAD ADDICT.6
1. The act of devoting or giving up in practice; the state of being devoted. NWAD ADDICTION.2
His addiction was to courses vain. NWAD ADDICTION.3
2. Among the Romans, a making over goods to another by sale or legal sentence; also an assignment of debtors in service in their creditors. NWAD ADDICTION.4
An addition, or rather the thing added, as furniture in a house; any material mixed with the principal ingredient in a compound. Ancient anatomists gave the name to an epiphysis, or junction of bones without articulation. [Little used in either sense.] NWAD ADDITAMENT.2
1. The act of adding, opposed to subtraction, or diminution; as, a sum is increased by addition. NWAD ADDITION.2
2. Any thing added, whether material or immaterial. NWAD ADDITION.3
3. In arithmetic, the uniting of two or more numbers in one sum; also the rule or branch of arithmetic which treats of adding numbers. Simple addition is the joining of sums of the same denomination, as pounds to pounds, dollars to dollars. Compound addition is the joining of sums of different denominations, as dollars and cents. NWAD ADDITION.4
4. In law, a title annexed to a man’s name, to show his rank, occupation or place of residence; as John Doe, Esq.; Richard Roe, Gent; Robert Dale, Mason; Thomas Way, of New York. NWAD ADDITION.5
5. In music, a dot at the side of a note, to lengthen its sound one half. NWAD ADDITION.6
6. In heraldry, something added to a coat of arms, as a mark of honor, opposed to abatements, as bordure, quarter, canton, gyron, pile, etc. See these terms. NWAD ADDITION.7
7. In distilling, any thing added to the wash or liquor in a state of fermentation. NWAD ADDITION.8
8. In popular language, an advantage, ornament, improvement; that is, an addition by way of eminence. NWAD ADDITION.9
In a morbid state; putrid; applied to eggs. NWAD ADDLE.2
Hence, barren, producing nothing. NWAD ADDLE.3
His brains grow addle. NWAD ADDLE.4
In heraldry, having the backs turned to each other, as beasts. NWAD ADDORSED.2
1. To prepare; to make suitable dispositions for. NWAD ADDRESS.2
Turnus addressed his men to single fight. NWAD ADDRESS.3
2. To direct words or discourse; to apply to by words; as, to address a discourse to an assembly; to address the judges. NWAD ADDRESS.4
3. To direct in writing; as a letter; or to direct and transmit; as he addressed a letter to the speaker. Sometimes it is used with the reciprocal pronoun, as, he addressed himself to the speaker, instead of, he addressed his discourse. The phrase is faulty; but less so than the following. To such I would address with this most affectionate petition. NWAD ADDRESS.5
Young Turnus to the beauteous maid aldrest. NWAD ADDRESS.6
The latter is admissible in poetry, as an elliptical phrase. NWAD ADDRESS.7
4. To present an address, as a letter of thanks or congratulation, a petition, or a testimony of respect; as, the legislature addressed the president. NWAD ADDRESS.8
5. To court or make suit as a lover. NWAD ADDRESS.9
6. In commerce, to consign or entrust to the care of another, as agent or factor; as, the ship was addressed to a merchant in Baltimore. NWAD ADDRESS.10
1. A speaking to; verbal application; a formal manner of speech; as, when introduced, the president made a short address. NWAD ADDRESS.12
2. A written or formal application; a message of respect, congratulation, thanks, petition, etc.; as, an address of thanks; an officer is removable upon the address of both houses of assembly. NWAD ADDRESS.13
3. Manner of speaking to another; as, a man of pleasing address. NWAD ADDRESS.14
4. Courtship; more generally in the plural, addresses; as, he makes or pays his addresses to a lady. NWAD ADDRESS.15
5. Skill; dexterity; skillful management; as, the envoy conducted the negotiation with address. NWAD ADDRESS.16
6. Direction of a letter, including the name, title, and place of residence of the person for whom it is intended. hence these particulars are denominated, a man’s address. NWAD ADDRESS.17
1. To bring forward, present or offer; as, a witness was adduced to prove the fact. NWAD ADDUCE.2
2. To cite, name or introduce; as, to adduce an authority or an argument. NWAD ADDUCE.3
A muscle which draws one part of the body towards another; as the adductor oculi, which turns the eye towards the nose; the adductor pollicis manus, which draws the thumb towards the fingers. NWAD ADDUCTOR.2
To sweeten. [Not used.] NWAD ADDULCE.2
In the civil law, the revocation of a grant, donation, or the like. NWAD ADEMPTION.2
That part of anatomy which treats of the glands. NWAD ADENOGRAPHY.2
In the form of a gland; glandiform; glandulous; applied to the prostate glands. NWAD ADENOID.2
In anatomy, the doctrine of the glands, their nature, and their uses. NWAD ADENOLOGY.2
One fully skilled or well versed in any art. The term is borrowed from the Alchimists, who applied it to one who pretended to have found the philosopher’s stone, or the panacea. NWAD ADEPT.2
An obtaining; acquirement. Obs. NWAD ADEPTION.2
The state or quality of being equal to, proportionate, or sufficient; a sufficiency for a particular purpose; as, “the adequacy of supply to the expenditure.” NWAD ADEQUACY.2
Adequate ideas, are such as exactly represent their object. NWAD ADEQUATE.2
In church history, a sect who hold the real presence of Christ’s body in the eucharist, but not by transubstantiation. They differ however as to this presence; some holding the body of Christ to be in the bread; others, about the bread. NWAD ADESSENARIANS.2
A Gothic custom, by which the children of a former marriage, are put upon the same footing with those of a succeeding one; still retained in some parts of Germany. NWAD ADFILIATION.2
1. To stick to, as glutinous substances, or by natural growth; as, the lungs sometimes adhere to the pleura. NWAD ADHERE.2
2. To be joined, or held in contact; to cleave to. NWAD ADHERE.3
3. Figuratively, to hold to, be attached, or remain fixed, either by personal union or conformity of faith, principle, or opinion; as, men adhere to a party, a leader, a church, or creed. NWAD ADHERE.4
4. To be consistent; to hold together as the parts of a system. NWAD ADHERE.5
Every thing adheres together. NWAD ADHERE.6
1. The quality or state of sticking or adhering. NWAD ADHERENCE.2
2. Figuratively, a being fixed in attachment; fidelity; steady attachment; as, an adherence to a party or opinions. NWAD ADHERENCE.3
In the sense of appendage. Obs. NWAD ADHERENT.3
1. The act or state of sticking, or being united and attached to; as the adhesion of glue, or of parts united by growth, cement, and the like. Adhesion is generally used in a literal; adherence, in a metaphorical sense. NWAD ADHESION.2
2. Sometimes figuratively, adherence, union or steady attachment; firmness in opinion; as, an adhesion to vice: but in this sense nearly obsolete. The union of bodies by attraction is usually denominated cohesion. NWAD ADHESION.3
To use, or apply. [Rarely used.] NWAD ADHIBIT.2
Advice. [Seldom used.] NWAD ADHORTATION.2
Advisory; containing counsel or warning. NWAD ADHORTATORY.2
Moderate Lutherans; a name given in the sixteenth century, to certain men that followed Melancthon, who was more pacific than Luther NWAD ADIAPHORISTS.2
The adiaphorists held some opinions and ceremonies to be indifferent, which Luther condemned as sinful or heretical. NWAD ADIAPHORISTS.3
Farewell; an expression of kind wishes at the parting of friends. NWAD ADIEU.2
A soft unctuous or waxy substance, of a light brown color, into which the muscular fibers of dead animal bodies are converted, when protected from atmospheric air, and under certain circumstances of temperature and humidity. This substance was first discovered by Fourcroy, in the burying ground of the Church des Innocens, when it was removed in 1787. It is speedily produced, when the body is immersed in running water. NWAD ADIPOCERE.2
Fat. The adipose membrane is the cellular membrane, containing the fat in its cells, and consisting of ductile membranes, connected by a sort of net-work. The adipose vein spreads itself on the coat and fat that covers the kidneys. The adipose ducts are the bags and ducts which contain the fat. NWAD ADIPOSE.2
An entrance or passage; a term in mining, used to denote the opening by which a mine is entered, or by which water and ores are carried away. It is usually made in the side of a hill. The word is sometimes used for aid-shaft, but not with strict propriety. NWAD ADIT.2
The state of lying close or contiguous; a bordering upon, or lying next to; as the adjacency of lands or buildings. In the sense of that which is adjacent, as used by Brown, it is not legitimate. NWAD ADJACENCY.2
To add or put, as one thing to another. NWAD ADJECT.2
To join or unite to; to put to, by placing in contact; to unite, by fastening together with a joint, mortise, or knot. But in these transitive senses, it is rarely used. [See Join.] NWAD ADJOIN.2
Literally, to put off, or defer to another day; but now used to denote a formal intermission of business, a putting off to any future meeting of the same body, and appropriately used of public bodies or private commissioners, entrusted with business; as, the court adjourned the consideration of the question. NWAD ADJOURN.2
It was moved that parliament should adjourn for six weeks. NWAD ADJOURN.4
1. Put off, delayed, or deferred for a limited time. NWAD ADJOURNED.2
2. As an adjective, existing or held by adjournment, as an adjourned session of a court, opposed to stated or regular. NWAD ADJOURNED.3
1. The act of adjourning; as, in legislatures, the adjournment of one house is not an adjournment of the other. NWAD ADJOURNMENT.2
2. The putting off till another day or time specified, or without day; that is, the closing of a session of a public or official body. NWAD ADJOURNMENT.3
3. The time or interval during which a public body defers business; as, during an adjournment. but a suspension of business, between the forming of a house and an adjournment for refreshment, is all a recess. In Great Britain, the close of a session of parliament is called a prorogation; as the close of a parliament is a dissolution. But in Great Britain, as well as in the United States, adjournment is now used for an intermission of business, for any indefinite time; as, an adjournment of parliament for six weeks. NWAD ADJOURNMENT.4
To decide, or determine, in the case of a controverted question; to decree by a judicial opinion; used appropriately of courts of law and equity. NWAD ADJUDGE.2
The case was adjudged in Hilary term. NWAD ADJUDGE.3
The prize was adjudged to the victor; a criminal was adjudged to suffer death. NWAD ADJUDGE.4
It has been used in the sense of to judge; as, he adjudged him unworthy of his friendship. But this sense is unusual. NWAD ADJUDGE.5
To adjudge; to try and determine, as a court. it has the sense of adjudge. NWAD ADJUDICATE.2