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ADIAPNEU'STIA, from . not. ami 

 , to perspire. In medicine, dimi- 

 nution or obstruction of perspiration. 



ADIARRH<T.'A, from*., not, and 5;ajf, 

 to flow through. In medicine, suppres- 

 sion of any of the natural evacuations. 



AD IXFINITTM, a Latin phrase, meaning 

 indefinitely, or to infinity. 



AD INUUIRKNIH-M, a writ to command 

 inquiry concerning something connected 

 with a cause in a court of law. 



ADIFOCERATION, the process of being 

 converted into adipocere. 



ADIPOCE'RE, ( from adeps, fat, and ccra 



AD'IPOCIRE, ) (Fr. cire), wax. A pecu- 

 liar substance, intermediate between fat 

 and wax, and closely resembling sperma- 

 ceti. It results from the spontaneous 

 conversion of animal matter when ex- 

 posed to running water, or more speedily 

 by maceration in dilute nitric acid. It is 

 produced also, but not so rapidly, by 

 heaping together large masses of animal 

 matter; as was exemplified, on an im- 

 mense scale, on the removal of the bodies 

 from the Cimetiere des Innocens in Paris, 

 in 1787. When the coffin-lids were taken 

 off, the bodies were found flattened into 

 irregular masses of soft, ductile, greyish- 

 white matter, resembling common white 

 cheese. All the soft parts were converted 

 into this substance; the bones were fran- 

 gible ; and no trace of viscera remained : 

 all were confused together, and blended 

 in a common mass of adipocere. 



ADIPOCERB-MINERAL, a fatty mineral 

 matter, found in the argillaceous iron ore 

 of Merthyr: inodorous when cold, but 

 when heated it emits a slightly bitumi- 

 nous odour. Fuses at 160 Fah. 



ADIPOSE, \ Lat. adiposus, from adeps, 



ADIPOTS, j fatty : e. g. the adipose mem- 

 brane is the tissue containing the fat in 

 its'cells in the animal body : the adipose 

 ducts contain the fat. 



ADIP'SY, Gr. et^i-^et. fa medicine, ab- 

 sence of thirst ; mostly symptomatic of 

 brain diseases. 



Abip'soN , from , not, and S/-4/, 

 thirst. A medicine which allays thirst, 

 e. g. liquorice. 



ADIT, Lat. aditus, from ad and eo,to go. 

 The horizontal entrance to a mine, some- 

 times called the drift. It is usually made 

 in the side of a hill. The term is often 

 used as synonymous with air-shaft. 



ADJACENT-ANGLE, in geometry, an angle 

 immediately contiguous to another, so 

 that one side is connected to both angles. 



AD'JECTIVE, Lat. adjectivum quasi ad- 

 jintftitntm. Adjective colours, in dyeing, are 

 uch as require to be fixed by some base 

 or mordant. 



ADJOURNMENT. 1. The closing of a ses- 

 icn of a public or official body t . 2. The 



official body intermits its business. The 

 close of a session of par! lament is called a 

 prorogation : the close of a parliament is 

 a dissolution ; an intermission of business 

 for a definite time is an adjournment. 

 Parliament has the privilege of adjourn- 

 ing itself, but its prorogation is the act 

 of the sovereign. 



ADJUDICATION, the act of trying and 

 determining judicially. 1. The decision 



of a court. 2. In Scotchlaw, an action by 



which a creditor attaches the heritable 

 estate of his debtor, or his debtor's heir, 

 in security of the payment of the debt; 

 or an action by which the holder of an 

 heritable right, labouring under a defect 



of form, may supply that defect. 3. 



Transferring the property of a thing sold 

 by auction to the highest bidder. 



ADJUNCT, Lat. adjunctus, joined, from 

 adjungo, to join to. 1. Literally, some- 

 thing added to another, but not essen- 

 tially a part of it, e. g. water in a sponge 



is an adjunct to the sponge. 2. lameta- 



physics, a quantity of a body, or of the 

 mind, whether natural or acquired, e. g. 

 colour, weight, form, &c. in the body, and 



thinking in the mind, are adjuncts. 3. 



In ethics, adjuncts are what are otherwise 

 called circumstances : these are reckoned 

 seven, viz. quis, quid, ubi,quibus, auxiliis, 



cur, quomodo, quanc, 



In grammar. 



words added to other words to amplify 

 the force of other words, e. g. the history 

 of the French revolution. The words in 

 italics are adjuncts to history. Webster. 



5. In music, the word is employed to 



denominate the relation between tfie 

 principal mode, and the modes of its two- 

 fifths. 



In the Royal Academy of Sciences at 

 Paris, there are twelve members called 

 adjuncts attached to the study of some 

 particular science. Geometry, astro- 

 nomy, mechanics, chemistry, botany, 

 and anatomy, have each two members. 

 These appointments were instituted in 

 1716. 



The Roman adjunct deities were in- 

 ferior deities, added as assistants to the 

 principal gods ; e. g. Selloiia to Mars ; 

 the Cabiri to Vulcan ; the Lares to the 

 Good Genius, and the Lcmures to the 

 Evil. 



AD JURA REGIS. In law, a writ which 

 lies for a clerk presented to a living by 

 the sovereign, against those whg en- 

 deavour to eject him to the prejudice of 

 the sovereign's title. 



ADJUST'MENT. The act of adjusting : 

 settlement, e. g. of a loss incurred at sea, 

 by the insured. In this cuse, it is usual 

 for the insurer to indorse upon the policy, 

 " Adjusted this loss at per cent, pay 

 able at days. M. N." This is con- 

 sidered as a note of hand, and, as such, i* 



rlar.e or interval during which a particular i primA facie evidence of Uio debt. 



