Adnoun to Adulterate
Adnoun
(Ad"noun`) n. [Pref. ad- + noun.] (Gram.) An adjective, or attribute. [R.] Coleridge.
Adnubilated
(Ad*nu"bi*la`ted) a. [L. adnubilatus, p. p. of adnubilare.] Clouded; obscured. [R.]
Ado
(A*do") (1) v. inf., (2) n. [OE. at do, northern form for to do. Cf. Affair.]
1. To do; in doing; as, there is nothing ado. "What is here ado?" J. Newton.
2. Doing; trouble; difficulty; troublesome business; fuss; bustle; as, to make a great ado about trifles.
With much ado, he partly kept awake.
Dryden.
Let's follow to see the end of this ado.
Shak.
Adobe
(||A*do"be) n. [Sp.] An unburnt brick dried in the sun; also used as an adjective, as, an adobe
house, in Texas or New Mexico.
Adolescence
(Ad`o*les"cence) n. [Fr., fr. L. adolescentia.] The state of growing up from childhood to
manhood or womanhood; youth, or the period of life between puberty and maturity, generally considered
to be, in the male sex, from fourteen to twenty-one. Sometimes used with reference to the lower animals.
Adolescency
(Ad`o*les"cen*cy) n. The quality of being adolescent; youthfulness.
Adolescent
(Ad`o*les"cent) a. [L. adolescens, p. pr. of adolescere to grow up to; ad + the inchoative
olescere to grow: cf. F. adolescent. See Adult.] Growing; advancing from childhood to maturity.
Schools, unless discipline were doubly strong,
Detain their adolescent charge too long.
Cowper.
Adolescent
(Ad`o*les"cent), n. A youth.
Adonean
(Ad`o*ne"an) a. [L. Adoneus.] Pertaining to Adonis; Adonic. "Fair Adonean Venus." Faber.
Adonic
(A*don"ic) a. [F. adonique: cf. L. Adonius.] Relating to Adonis, famed for his beauty. - - n.
An Adonic verse.
Adonic verse, a verse consisting of a dactyl and spondee
Adonis
(||A*do"nis) n. [L., gr. Gr. 'A`dwnis.]
1. (Gr. Myth.) A youth beloved by Venus for his beauty. He was killed in the chase by a wild boar.
2. A preëminently beautiful young man; a dandy.
3. (Bot.) A genus of plants of the family Ranunculaceæ, containing the pheasant's eye (Adonis autumnalis); —
named from Adonis, whose blood was fabled to have stained the flower.
Adonist
(A*do"nist) n. [Heb. adonai my Lords.] One who maintains that points of the Hebrew word
translated "Jehovah" are really the vowel points of the word "Adonai." See Jehovist.
Adonize
(Ad"o*nize) v. t. [Cf. F. adoniser, fr. Adonis.] To beautify; to dandify.
I employed three good hours at least in adjusting and adonozing myself.
Smollett.
Adoor
(A*door A*doors) At the door; of the door; as, out adoors. Shak.
I took him in adoors.
Vicar's Virgil
