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AD'JCTAGE, from ad and jacio,jactus, \ 

 AJ'UTAGE, from Fr. ajouter, to join. J 

 The tube fitted to the mouth of a vessel 

 Through which the water of a fountain is 

 to be played. It is by its means that the 

 water is directed into any desired figure 

 so that the diversity of fountains consists 

 chiefly in the different structure of their 

 adjutages. 



AD'JUTANT, Lat. adjutant, aiding. In 

 military affairs, an officer who assists the 

 major by receiving and communicating 

 orders, and therefore has sometimes been 

 called the aid-major. Each battalion of 

 foot and regiment of horse has an ad- 

 jutant, who receives orders from the 

 brigade-major, to communicate to the 

 colonel and subalterns. He places guards 

 receives and distributes ammunition, as- 

 signs places of rendezvous, &c. 



AD'JUTAXT-GENERAL is the chief ad 

 jutant : he is to an army what the ad 

 jutant is to a regiment. 



AD'JUTANTS-GE.NERAL, among the Je 

 suits, were a select body of fathers who 

 resided with the general of the order, each 

 of whom had a province or country as- 

 signed to his care. Their business was 

 to keep up correspondence with such 

 countries by means of their delegates and 

 emissaries, and give information of state 

 occurrences to the father-general. 



ADJUTORIUM, Lat. from ad andjuvo. In 

 anatomy, a name given to the humerus 

 from its usefulness in lifting the arm. 



ADJUVANT, Lat. ad,uvans, helping. Ad- 

 jutant : applied to an ingredient intro- 

 duced into a medical prescription, to aid 

 the operation of the principal ingredient 

 or basis. 



ADLEGA'TION, Lat. ad and legatio, from 

 lego, to send. In the public laws of the 

 German Empire, a right claimed by the 

 states, and by some princes, of joining 

 their own ministers with those of the 

 emperor in all negotiations where the 

 interests of the empire are concerned. 



ADMAXUEN'SIS, from ad and manus, the 

 hand. In old law books, a term denoting 

 laymen, who sware by laying their hands 

 on the bible ; whereas the clergy were 

 forbidden to swear so, their word being 

 deemed equal to an oath. 



ADMEASUREMENT, from ad an&measure- 

 ment. In law , the adjustment of shares of 

 something to be divided ; e. g. Admeasure- 

 ment of dower takes place when the widow 

 of the deceased claims more than belongs 

 to her as dower : Admeasurement of pasture 

 takes place when any one of the persons 

 who have title to a common pasture, puts 

 more cattle to feed upon it than he ought. 

 These take place by writ of admeasurement, 

 addressed to the sheriff. 



ADMIN ICTJLA'TOR, Lat. from adminicidor, 

 to give help. In church history, an officer, 

 otherwise called the Advocate of the poor. 



ADMIN ISTRA'TION, the act of adminitUr- 

 ing ; management or government of public 



affairs ; the office of an administrator. 



2. The executive part of a government, 

 consisting in the exercise of the constitu- 

 tional and legtil powers, the general super- 

 intendence of national affairs and the 



enforcement of laws. 3. The persons 



collectively who are entrusted with the 

 execution of the laws, and the super- 

 intendence of public affairs: the chief 

 magistrate and his council, as in America ; 

 the council alone, as in Great ^Britain. 

 4. The management of the estate 

 of an intestate person, a lunatic. &c. , under 

 a commission from the proper authority. 



5. Among ecclesiastics, the power with 



which a parson is invested both as re- 

 gards the temporalities and spiritualities 

 of his cure. -6. In commerce, the name 

 given by the Spaniards to the staple 

 magazine at Calao, in Peru, where all 

 ships_ loaded with European goods were 

 required to unload and pay duties. 



ADMINISTRA'TOR, Lat. from ad and min- 

 ister. In law, the person to whom the 

 goods, &c., of a person who died intestate 

 are entrusted. He must give account of 

 the same when required. The bishop of 

 the diocese, when the person dies, is 

 regularly to grant administration ; but, if 

 the deceased has goods in several dioceses, 

 administration must be granted by the 

 archbishop in the prerogative court. The 

 persons to whom administration is 

 granted, are first the next of kin to the 



deceased, and then to a creditor. 2. In 



Scotch law, a tutor, curator, or guardian, 

 having the care of one who is incapable 

 of acting for himself. Administrator is 

 used in several other senses, e. g. an 

 advocate of a church ; a person appointed 

 to manage the revenues of an hospital, or 

 other charitable institution ; a prince who 

 enjoys the revenues of a secularized 

 bishoprick ; the regent of a state during 

 a minority, or a vacancy of the throne. 



ADMINISTRATRIX, a female who adminis- 

 ters upon the estate of an intestate person. 



AD'MIRAL, an officer who commands the 

 naval forces, and decides afl maritime 

 causes. According to Ducange, the 

 Sicilians were the first, and the Genoese 

 the next, who gave this name to the 

 commanders of their fleets ; deriving it 

 from the Ar. tmir, or amir, a commander, 

 a designation applicable to any com- 

 manding officer: hence low Lat. amira, 

 amiras, admiralis, Sp. and Port, admirante, 

 Fr. amiral: the termination al, is probably 

 from A?, the sea. The admiral has the 

 same authority over the maritime forces, 

 that a general has over the land forces. 

 There are three ranks of admirals, the 

 admiral, the vice-admiral, and rear- 

 admiral, besides the lord high adimrai. 



