A dictionary of the English language: in which the words are deduced from their originals, and illustrated in their different significations by examples from the best writers : to which are prefixed a history of the language, and an English grammar (Volume 1).
- Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784.
- Date:
- 1819
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![2. To fasten by a joint or juncture. As a massy wheel, Fixt on the summit of the highest mount, To whose huge spoke ten thousand lesser things Are mortis'd and adjoined. Skakspeare. To Adjo'in, ad-join', v. n. To be conti- guous to; to lie next, so as to have no- thing between. TV adjoining fane, th' assembled Greeks ex- press'd, And hunting of the Caledonian beast. Dryden. In learning any thing, as little should be pro- posed to the mind at once, as is possible; and, that bei-ig understood and fully mastered, proceed to the next adjoining, yet unknown, simple, unperplexed proposition, belonging to the matter in hand, and U u'ding to the clearing what is principally design- ed. Locke. To ADJO'URN, ad-jurn.'a14 v. a.[ad- journer, Fr.] 1. To put off to another day, naming the time; a term used in juridical proceed- ings; as, of parliaments, or courts of justice. The queen being absent, 'tis a needful fitness, That we adjourn this court to further day. Shaksp. By the king's authority alone, and by his writs, they are assembled; and, by him alone, are they prorogued and dissolved: but each house may ad- journ itself. Bacon. 2. To put off; to defer; to let stay to a future time. Then, Jupiter, thou king of gods, Why hast thou thus adjourned The graces for his merits due, Being all to dolours turn'd. Shaksp. Cymb. Crown high the goblets with a cheerful draught: Enjoy the present hour, adjourn the future thought. Dryden. The formation of animals being foreign to my purpose, I shall adjourn the consideration of it to another occasion. Woodward's Natural History. Adjournment, ad-jurn'ment. n. s. [ad- journment, Fr.] 1. An assignment of a day; or a putting off, till another day. Adjournment in eyre, an appointment of a day, when the justices in eyre mean to sit again. Coiocll. 2. Delay; procrastination; dismission to a future time. We will, and we will not; and then we will not again, and we will. At this rate we run our lives out, in adjournment from time to time; out of a fantastical levity, that holds us off and on, betwixt hawk and buzzard. VEslrange. A'dipous, ad'de-pus.314 adj. [adifiosus, Lat.] Fat. Diet. Vdit, ad'lt. n. s. [aditus, Lat.] A pas- sage, for the conveyance of water un- der ground; a passage under ground in general; a term among the minemen. For conveying away the Water, they stand in aid of sundry devices; as, adits, pumps, and wheels, driven by a stream, and interchangeably filling and emptying two buckets. Carew. The delfs would be so flown with waters (it be- ing impossible, to make any adits or soughs to drain them) that no gins or machines could suffice, to lay and keep them dry. Ray. Adi'tion, ad-ish'shun.469 n. s. [from adeo, aditum, Lat.] The act, of going to another Diet. To Adju'dge, ad-judje'. v. a. [adjudico, Lat.] 1. To give the thing controverted, to one of the parties, by a judicial sentence; with the particle to, before the person. The way of disputing in the schools is, by in- sisting on one topical argument; by the success of which, victory is adjudged to the opponent or de- fendant. Locfee. The great competitors for Rome, Caesar and Pompey, on Pharsalian plains; Where stern Bellona, with one final stroke, Adjudged the empire of this globe to one. Phillips. 2. To sentence, or condemn to a punish- ment; with to before the thing. But though thou art adjudged to the death; Yet I will favour thee, in what I can. Shaksp. 3. Simply, to judge; to decree; to deter- mine. He adjudged him unworthy of his friendship, purposing sharply to revenge the wrong he had re- ceived. Knolles- Adjudication, ad-ju-de-ka'shun. n. s. [adjudication Lat.] The act of judging, or of granting something to a litigant, by a judicial sentence. To ADJUDICATE, ad-ju'de-kate. v. a. [adjudico, Lat.] To adjudge; to give something controverted to one of the litigants, by a sentence or decision. To A'djugate, ad'ju-gate.91 v a. [adjugo, Lat.] To yoke to; to join to another by a yoke. Diet. A'djument, ad'ju-ment. n. s. [adjumen- tum, Lat.] Help; support. Diet. A'DJUNCT, ad'junkt. n. s. [adjunctum, Lat.] 1. Something adherent or united to ano- ther, though not essentially part of it. Learning is but an adjunct to ourself; And, where we are, our learning likewise is. Shak. But I make haste, to consider you as abstracted from a court; which (if you will give me leave to use a term of logick) is only an adjunct, not a pro- priety, of happiness. Dryden. The talent of discretion, in its several adjuncts and circumstances, is no where so serviceable as to the clergy. Swift. 2. A person joined to another. This sense rarely occurs. He made him the associate of his heir-apparent, together with the lord Cottington (as an adjunct of singular experience and trust) in foreign travels, and in a business of love. Wotton. A'djunct, ad'junkt. adj. United with; immediately consequent. So well, that what you bid me undertake, Though that my death were adjunct to my act, I'll do it. Shaksp. King John. Adju'nction, ad-junk'shdn. n. s. [adjunc- tio, Lat.] 1. The act of adjoining or coupling toge- ther. 2. The thing joined. ADJu'NCTivE,ad-junk'tiv.168 n. s.[adjunc- tivus, Lat.] 1. He, that joins. 2. That, which is joined. Adjura'tion, ad-ju-ra'shun. n. s. [adju- ratio, Lat.] 1. The act of adjuring, or proposing an oath to another. 2. The form of oath, proposed to another. When these learned men saw sickness and frenzy cured, the dead raised, the oracles put to silence, the daemons and evil spirits forced to confess them- selves no gods, by persons, who only made use of prayer and adjurations in the name of their cruci- fied Saviour; how could they doubt of their Sa- viour's power on the like occasions? Addison on the Christian Religion. To ADJU'RE, ad-jure'. v. a. [adjuro, Lat.] To impose an oath upon another, prescribing the form in which he shall swear. Thou know'st, the magistrates And princes of my country came in person; Solicited, commanded, threaten'd, urg'd, Adjured by all the bonds of civil duty And of religion; press'd, how just it was, How honourable. Milton. Ye lamps of heaven! (he said, and lifted high His hands now free) thou venerable sky! Ye sacred altars, from whose flames I fled! Be all of you adjured. Dryden. To ADJU'ST, ad-just', v. a. [adjuster, Fr.] 1. To regulate; to put in order; to settle in the right form. Your lordship removes all our difficulties, and supplies all our wants, faster than the most vision- ary projector can adjust his schemes. Swift. 2. To reduce to the true state or standard; to make accurate. The names of mixed modes, for the most part, want standards in nature, whereby men may rec- tify and adjust their signification; therefore they are very various and doubtful. Locke. 3. To make conformable. It requires the particle to, before the thing, to which the conformity is made. As to the accomplishment of this remarkable prophecy, whoever reads the account given by Jo- sephus, without knowing his character; and com- pares it, with what our Saviour foretold; would think the historian had been a Christian; and that he had nothing else in view, but to adjust the event to the prediction. Addison. Adjustment, ad-just'ment. n. s. [adjus- tement, Fr.] 1. Regulation; the act of putting in me- thod; settlement. The farther and clearer adjustment of this affair, I am constrained to adjourn to the larger treatise. Woodward. 2. The state, of being put in method, or regulated. It is a vulgar idea we have of a watch or clock, when we conceive of it, as an instrument made to shew the hour: but it is a learned idea, which the watch-maker has of it; who knows all the several parts of it, together with the various connections and adjustments of each part. Watls's Logick. A'djutant, ad'ju-tant. n. s. A petty offi cer, whose duty is to assist the major, by distributing the pay, and overseeing the punishment of the common men. To ADJU'TE, ad-jute', v. a. [adjuvo, ad- jutum, Lat.] To help; to concur: a word not now in use. For there be Six bachelors as bold as he, Adjuting to his company; And each one hath his livery. Ben Jonson. Adju'tor, ad-ju'tur.98 166 n. s. [adjutor, Lat.] A helper. Diet. Adju'tory, ad'ju-tur-re'.813 S6> adj. [ad- jutorius, Lat.] That which helps. Diet. Adju'trix, ad'ju-triks. n. s. [Lat] She, who helps. Diet. A'djuvant, ad'ju-vant. adj. [adjuvans, Lat.] Helpful; useful. Diet. To A'djuvate, ad'ju-vate.603 v. a. [adju- vo, Lat.] To help; to further; to put forward. Diet. Admeasurement, ad-mezh'ure-ment. n. s. [See Measure.] The adjustment](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21133803_0161.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
