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.
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- 1819
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![1. Tainted with the guilt of adultery. I am possess'd with an adulterate blot: My blood is mingled with the grime oflust; Being strumpeted, by thy contagion. Shaksp. Comedy of Err ours. That incestuous, that adulterate beast. Shaksp. 2. Corrupted, with some foreign mixture. It does indeed differ no more, than the maker of adulterate wares does from the vender of them. Government of the Tongue. They will have all their gold and silver; and may keep their adulterate copper at home. Swift's Misc. Adul'tf.uateness, a-dul'tilr-ate-ness.9198 SBB n. $. [from adulterate.'] The quality or state, of being adulterate or counter- feit. Adultera'tion, a-dul'tu.r-a'shun. n. s. [from adulterate.] 1. The act of adulterating or corrupting, by foreign mixture; contamination. To make the compound pass for the rich metal simple, is an adulteration or counterfeiting: but if it be done avowedly, and without disguising, it may be a great saving of the richer metal. Bacon's Natural History, No. 798. 2. The state of being adulterated or conta- minated. Such translations are like the adulteration of the noblest wines; where something of the colour, spirit, and flavour, will remain. Felton on the Classics. Adu'lterer, a-d&l'tur-ilr.98?*. s. [adulter, Lat.] The person, guilty of adultery. With what impatience must the muse behold The wife, by her procuring husband sold; For, tho' the law makes null th' adulterer's deed, Of lands to her, the cuckold may succeed. Dryden's Juvenal. Adu'lteress, a-dul'tur-ess. n. s. [from adulterer.] A woman, that commits adultery. The Spartan lady replied, when she was asked, What was the punishment for adulteresses? There are no such things here, Gov. of the Tongue, § 3. Helen's rich attire, From Argos by the fam'd adult'ress brought, With golden flow'rs and winding foliage wrought. Dryden's Virgil. Adu'lterine, a-dul'ttir-lne.149 n. s. [adul- terine, Fr. adulterinus, Lat.] A child, born of an adulteress: a term of canon law. Adu'lterous, a-du.rtur-us.314 adj. [adul- ter, hat.] Guilty of adultery. The adulterous Antony, most large In his abominations, turns you off; And gives his potent regiment to a trull, That noses it against us. Shaksp. Ant. and Cleop. An adulterous person is tied to restitution of the injury, so far as it is reparable; and to make provi- sion for the children, that they may not injure the legitimate. Taylor. Think, on whose faith th' adult'rovs youth rely'd; Who promis'd, whoprocur'd the Spartan bride? Dryden's JEneid. ADU'LTERY, a-dul'tur-e.^ n. s [adul- terium, Lat.] The act of violating the bed of a married person. All thy domestic griefs at home be left, The wife's adult'ry, with the servant's theft; And, (the most racking thought which can intrude,) Forget false friends, and their ingratitude. Dryden's Juvenal. Adu'mbrant, ad-um'brant. adj. [from adumb) ate.] That, which gives a slight resemblance. To ADU'MBRATEjdd-um'brate.^-y. a. [from adumbro, Lat.] To shadow-out; to give a slight likeness; to exnibit a faint resemblance, like that, which sha- dows afford of the bodies which they re- present. Heaven is designed for our reward as well as rescue; and therefore is adumbrated by all those positive excellencies, which can endear or recom- mend. Decay of Piety. Adumbra'tion, ad-um-bra/slnin. n. s. [from adumbrate.] 1. The act of adumbrating, or giving a slight and imperfect representation. See Adumbrate. To make some adumbration of that we mean; it is rather an imputation or contusion of the air, than an elision or section of the same. Bacon's Natural History, No. 187. 2. The slight and imperfect representation of a thing; a faint sketch. The observers view but the backside of the hang- ings; the right one is on the other side the grave: and our knowledge is, but like those broken ends; at best, a most confused adumbration. Glanville's Scepsis Scientifica. Those of the first sort have some adumbration of the rational nature, as vegetables have of the sensi- ble. Hale's Oiigin. Aduna'tion, ad-u-na'sluln. n. s. [from ad and unus, Lat.] The state of being uni- ted; union: a word of little use. When, by glaciation, wood, straw, dust, and water, are supposed to be united into one lump, the cold does not cause any real union or adunation; but, on- ly hardening the aqueous parts of the liquor into ice, the other bodies (being accidentally present in that liquor) are frozen up in it, but not really united. Boyle. Adu'ncity, a-diln's£-te.611 n. s. [aduncitas. Lat.] Crookedness; flexure inwards; hookedness. There can be no question but the aduncity of the pounces and beaks of the hawks, is the cause of the great and habitual immorality of those animals. Jirbuthnot and Pope's Mart. Scrib. ADU7NQUE,a-dilnk/.'*16aG(/. [aduncus,L,&t.~] Crooked; bending inwards; hooked. The birds, that are speakers, are parrots, pies, jays, daws, and ravens; of which, parrots have an adunque bill, but the rest not. Bacon's Natural Histm-y, No. 238. A'dvocacy, ad'vo-ka-se.840 n. s. [from ad- vocate.] The act of pleading; vindication; defence; apology: a word in little use. If any there are, who are of opinion, that there are no antipodes, or that the stars do fall; they shall not want herein the applause or advocacy of Satan. Brown's Vulgar Errours, b. i. A'DVOCATE, ad'vo-kate. n. s. [advoca- tus, Lat.] 1. He, that pleads the cause of another, in a court of judicature. An advocate; (in the general import of the word,) is that person, who has the pleading and management of a judicial cause. In a strict way of speaking, only that person is stiled advocate, who is the patron of the cause; and is often in Latin termed togatus, and in English a person of the long robe. Jiyliffe's Parergon. Learn, what thou ow'st thy country and thy friend; What's requisite to spare, and what to spend: Learn this; and after, envy not the store Of the greas'd advocate that grinds the poor. Dryd. Persius. 2. He, that pleads any cause, in whatever manner, as a controvertist or vindicator. If she dares trust me with her little babe, I'll shew 't the kun'- and undertake, to be Her advocate to th' loudest, Shakspeare. Of the several forms of government, that have been, or are in the world; that cause seems commonly the better, that has the better advocate, or is advantaged by fresher experience. Temple's Miscellanies. 3. It is used, with the particle for, before the person or thing, in whose favour the plea is offered. Foes to all living worth, except your own; And advocates, for folly dead and gone. Pope. 4. In the scriptural and sacred sense, it stands for one of the offices of our Re- deemer. Me, his advocate And propitiation; all his works on me, Good, or not good, ingraft. Paradise Lost- Advoua'tion, ad-vo-ka'shun, n. s. [from advocate.] The office or act of pleading; plea; apology. My advocation is not now in tune; My lord is not my lord; nor should I know him, Were he in favour, as in humour, alter'd. Shaksp. Advola'tion, ad-vo-la'shiln. n. s. [advolo, advolatum, Lat.] The act, of flying to something. Diet. Advolu'tion, ad-vo-lu'shiln. n. s. [advo- lutio, Lat.] The act of rolling to some- thing. Advo'utry, ad-vou'tre.313 n. s. [avoutrie, Fr.] Adultery. He was the most perfidious man upon the earth, and he had made a marriage compounded between an advoutry and a rape. Bacon's Hen. VII. Advowe'e, ad-vou-ee'. n. s. He that has the right of advowson. See Advowson. Advo'wson, or Advo'wzen, ad-vovi'zun. 170 n. s. [In common law.] A right, to present to a benefice; and signifies as much, as Jus PatronalHs. In the canon law, it is so termed; because they, that originally obtained the right of present- ing to any church, were great benefac- tors thereto; and are therefore termed sometimes Patroni, sometimes jidvo- cati. C owe 11. To Adu're, a-dure'. v. n.[aduro, Lat.] To burn up; not in use. Such a degree of heat, which doth neither melt nor scorch, doth mellow, and not adure. Bacon's Natural History. Adu'st, a-dust'. adj. [adustus, Lat.] 1. Burnt up; hot, as with fire; scorched. By this means, the virtual heat of the water will enter; and such a heat as will not make the body adust or fragile. Bacon. Which with torrid heat, And vapours, as the Libyan air, adust, Began to parch that temperate clime. Par. Lost. 2. It is generally now applied, in a medi- cinal or philosophical sense, to the com- plexion and humours of the body. Such humours are adust, as by long heat, become of a hot and fiery nature, as choler, and the like. Quincy. To ease the soul of one oppressive weight, This quits an empire, that embroils a state. The same adust complexion has impell'd Charles to the convent, Philip to the field. Pope. Adu'sted, a-dusl'ed. adj. [See Adust.] 1. Burnt; scorched; dried with fire. Sulphurous and nitrous foam They found, they mingled, and with subtle ait Concocted, and adusted, they redue'd To blackest grain, and into store convey'd. Paradise Lost. 2. Hot, as the complexion. They arebuc die fruits of adusted choler, and the evaporations of a vindictive spirit. Howtll Adu'stible, a-dtis'te-bl.179 adj. [from](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21133803_0169.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
