Admit (v. t.) To concede as true; to acknowledge or assent to, as an allegation which it is impossible to deny; to own or confess; as, the argument or fact is admitted; he admitted his guilt.
Admit (v. t.) To be capable of; to permit; as, the words do not admit such a construction. In this sense, of may be used after the verb, or may be omitted.
Admittable (a.) Admissible.
Admittance (n.) The act of admitting.
Admittance (n.) Permission to enter; the power or right of entrance; also, actual entrance; reception.
Admittance (n.) Concession; admission; allowance; as, the admittance of an argument.
Admittance (n.) Admissibility.
Admittance (n.) The act of giving possession of a copyhold estate.
Admittatur (n.) The certificate of admission given in some American colleges.
Admitted (a.) Received as true or valid; acknowledged.
Admittedly (adv.) Confessedly.
Admitter (n.) One who admits.
Admix (v. t.) To mingle with something else; to mix.
Admixtion (n.) A mingling of different things; admixture.
Admixture (n.) The act of mixing; mixture.
Admixture (n.) The compound formed by mixing different substances together.
Admixture (n.) That which is mixed with anything.
Admonished (imp. & p. p.) of Admonish
Admonishing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Admonish
Admonish (v. t.) To warn or notify of a fault; to reprove gently or kindly, but seriously; to exhort.
Admonish (v. t.) To counsel against wrong practices; to cation or advise; to warn against danger or an offense; -- followed by of, against, or a subordinate clause.
Admonish (v. t.) To instruct or direct; to inform; to notify.
Admonisher (n.) One who admonishes.
Admonishment (n.) Admonition.
Admonition (n.) Gentle or friendly reproof; counseling against a fault or error; expression of authoritative advice; friendly caution or warning.
Admonitioner (n.) Admonisher.
Admonitive (a.) Admonitory.
Admonitor (n.) Admonisher; monitor.
Admonitorial (a.) Admonitory.
Admonitory (a.) That conveys admonition; warning or reproving; as, an admonitory glance.
Admonitrix (n.) A female admonitor.
Admortization (n.) The reducing or lands or tenements to mortmain. See Mortmain.
Admove (v. t.) To move or conduct to or toward.
Adnascent (a.) Growing to or on something else.
Adnate (a.) Grown to congenitally.
Adnate (a.) Growing together; -- said only of organic cohesion of unlike parts.
Adnate (a.) Growing with one side adherent to a stem; -- a term applied to the lateral zooids of corals and other compound animals.
Adnation (n.) The adhesion or cohesion of different floral verticils or sets of organs.
Adnominal (a.) Pertaining to an adnoun; adjectival; attached to a noun.
Adnoun (n.) An adjective, or attribute.
Adnubilated (a.) Clouded; obscured.
Ado (n.) To do; in doing; as, there is nothing ado.
Ado (n.) Doing; trouble; difficulty; troublesome business; fuss; bustle; as, to make a great ado about trifles.
Adobe (n.) An unburnt brick dried in the sun; also used as an adjective, as, an adobe house, in Texas or New Mexico.
Adolescence (n.) 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 (n.) The quality of being adolescent; youthfulness.
Adolescent (a.) Growing; advancing from childhood to maturity.
Adolescent (n.) A youth.
Adonean (a.) Pertaining to Adonis; Adonic.
Adonic (a.) Relating to Adonis, famed for his beauty.
Adonic (n.) An Adonic verse.
Adonis (n.) A youth beloved by Venus for his beauty. He was killed in the chase by a wild boar.
Adonis (n.) A preeminently beautiful young man; a dandy.
Adonis (n.) A genus of plants of the family Ranunculaceae, containing the pheasant's eye (Adonis autumnalis); -- named from Adonis, whose blood was fabled to have stained the flower.
Adonist (n.) One who maintains that points of the Hebrew word translated "Jehovah" are really the vowel points of the word "Adonai." See Jehovist.
Adonize (v. t.) To beautify; to dandify.
Adoor () Alt. of Adoors
Adoors () At the door; of the door; as, out adoors.
Adopted (imp. & p. p.) of Adopt
Adopting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Adopt
Adopt (v. t.) To take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.; esp. to take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be in the place of, or as, one's own child.
Adopt (v. t.) To take or receive as one's own what is not so naturally; to select and take or approve; as, to adopt the view or policy of another; these resolutions were adopted.
Adoptable (a.) Capable of being adopted.
Adopted (a.) Taken by adoption; taken up as one's own; as, an adopted son, citizen, country, word.
Adopter (n.) One who adopts.
Adopter (n.) A receiver, with two necks, opposite to each other, one of which admits the neck of a retort, and the other is joined to another receiver. It is used in distillations, to give more space to elastic vapors, to increase the length of the neck of a retort, or to unite two vessels whose openings have different diameters.
Adoption (n.) The act of adopting, or state of being adopted; voluntary acceptance of a child of other parents to be the same as one's own child.
Adoption (n.) Admission to a more intimate relation; reception; as, the adoption of persons into hospitals or monasteries, or of one society into another.
Adoption (n.) The choosing and making that to be one's own which originally was not so; acceptance; as, the adoption of opinions.
Adoptionist (n.) One of a sect which maintained that Christ was the Son of God not by nature but by adoption.
Adoptious (a.) Adopted.
Adoptive (a.) Pertaining to adoption; made or acquired by adoption; fitted to adopt; as, an adoptive father, an child; an adoptive language.
Adorability (n.) Adorableness.
Adorable (a.) Deserving to be adored; worthy of divine honors.
Adorable (a.) Worthy of the utmost love or respect.
Adorableness (n.) The quality of being adorable, or worthy of adoration.
Adorably (adv.) In an adorable manner.
Adoration (n.) The act of playing honor to a divine being; the worship paid to God; the act of addressing as a god.
Adoration (n.) Homage paid to one in high esteem; profound veneration; intense regard and love; fervent devotion.
Adoration (n.) A method of electing a pope by the expression of homage from two thirds of the conclave.
Adoring (imp. & p. p. Adored (/); p. pr. & vb. n.) of Adore
Adore (v. t.) To worship with profound reverence; to pay divine honors to; to honor as deity or as divine.
Adore (v. t.) To love in the highest degree; to regard with the utmost esteem and affection; to idolize.
Adore (v. t.) To adorn.
Adorement (n.) The act of adoring; adoration.
Adorer (n.) One who adores; a worshiper; one who admires or loves greatly; an ardent admirer.
Adoringly (adv.) With adoration.
Adorned (imp. & p. p.) of Adorn
Adorning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Adorn
Adorn (v. t.) To deck or dress with ornaments; to embellish; to set off to advantage; to render pleasing or attractive.
Adorn (n.) Adornment.
Adorn (a.) Adorned; decorated.
Adornation (n.) Adornment.
Adorner (n.) He who, or that which, adorns; a beautifier.
Adorningly (adv.) By adorning; decoratively.
Adornment (n.) An adorning; an ornament; a decoration.
Adosculation (n.) Impregnation by external contact, without intromission.
Adown (adv.) From a higher to a lower situation; downward; down, to or on the ground.
Adown (prep.) Down.
Adpress (v. t.) See Appressed.