addict 
addict (a-dikf), (' ' [< L. addietus, pp. of 
iiiltliccre, devote, deliver over, prop, give one's 
assent to, < ml, to, + tlicerc, say, declare.] 1. 
To devote or give up, as to a habit or occupa- 
tion ; apply habitually or sedulously, as to a 
practice or habit: used reflexively: as, to ad- 
dict one's self to the exercise of charity ; he is 
itddii'trd (addicts himself) to meditation, plea- 
sure, or intemperance. [Now most frequently 
used in a bad sense.] 
They have addicted themselves to the ministry of the 
saints. 1 Cor. xvi. IS. 
I advise thee ... to addict thyself to the Study of Let- 
ters. Cotton, tr. of Montaigne (2d ed.), I. 38ft. 
2f. To give over or surrender; devote, attach, 
or assign ; yield up, as to the service, use,"or 
control of : used both of persons and of things. 
Yours entirely adfticted, madam. 
B. JOIUOH, Cynthia's Kevels, iv. 3. 
The land about is exceedingly addicted to wood. 
Evelyn, Diary, April 18, 1680. 
Specifically 3. In Rom. law, to deliver over 
formally by the sentence of a judge, as a debt- 
or to the service of his creditor. = Syn. 1. Addict, 
Devote, Apply, accustom. These words, where they ap- 
proach in meaning, are most used reflexively. Addict and 
devote are often used in the passive. Addict has quite lost 
the idea of dedication ; it is the yielding to impulse, and 
generally a had one. Devote retains much of the idea of 
service or loyalty by vow ; hence it is rarely used of that 
which is evil. Addicted to every form of folly ; devoted to 
hunting, astronomy, philosophy. Apply is neutral moral- 
ly, and implies industry or assiduity : as, he applied him- 
self to his task, to learning. 
The Courtiers were all much addicted to Play. 
Barham, Ingoldsby Legends, II. 7. 
We should reflect that the earliest intellectual exercise 
to which a young nation devote* itself is the study of its 
laws. Maine, Village Communities, p. 380. 
That we may a^tplit our hearts unto wisdom. Ps. xc. 12. 
addictt (a-dikf), . [< L. addictux, pp. : see the 
verb.] Addicted. 
If he be addict to vice, 
Quickly him they will entice. 
Shut., Pass. PH., xxl. 
addictedness (a-dik'ted-nes), n. The quality or 
state of being addicted. 
My former addicteditexs to make chymical experiments. 
Boyh. 
addiction (a-dik'shon), n. [< L. addwtio(n-), de- 
livering up, awarding, < addicere : see addict, v.] 
1. The state of being given up to some habit, 
practice, or pursuit ; addictedness ; devotion. 
His addiction was to courses vain. Shak., Hen. V., i. 1. 
From our German forefather* we inherit our phlegm, 
our steadiness, our domestic habitudes, and our unhappy 
addiction to spirituous liquors. 
W. K. Greg, Misc. Essays, 2d ser., p. 13. 
Southey, in a letter to William Taylor, protests, with 
much emphasis, against his addiction to words "which 
are so foreign as not to be even in Johnson's farrago of a 
dictionary.. F. Hall, Mod. Eng., p. 136. 
2. In Rom, law, a formal giving over or deliv- 
ery by sentence of court ; hence, a surrender or 
dedication of any one to a master. N. E. D. 
ad diem (ad di'em). [L. : ad, at, to; diem, ace. 
of dies, day: see dies, dial,"] In laic, at the day. 
adding-machine (ad'ing-ma-shen' 1 '), n. [< add- 
ing, verbal n. of add, + machine.] An instru- 
ment or a machine intended to facilitate or 
perform the addition of numbers. See calcu- 
la tiiig-mach ine, aritli mometer. 
addist, . An obsolete form of adz. 
Addisonian (ad-i-so'ui-an), a. [The surname 
Addison, ME. Adeson, is equiv. to Adamson, i. e., 
Adam's son. Cf. Atchison.] Pertaining to or 
resembling the English author Joseph Addison 
or his writings : as, an Addisonian style. 
It was no part of his plan to enter into competition 
with the Addisonian writers. The Century, XXVII. 927. 
Addison's cheloid (ad'i-sonz ke'loid). See 
kclis. 
Addison's disease (ad'i-sonz di-zez'). See 
disease. 
additament (ad'i-ta-ment), n. [< L. addita- 
mentum, an increase, < additus, pp. of addcre, 
add: see add,] An addition; something added. 
In a palace . . . there are certain additaments that 
contribute to its ornament and use. 
Sir M. Hale, Origin of Mankind. 
In Hawthorne, whose faculty was developed among 
scholars, and with the finest additaintnts of scholarship, 
we have our first true artist in literary expression. 
Tli,' Century, XXVI. 293. 
additamentary (ad'i-ta-men'ta-ri), a. Pertain- 
ing to or of the nature of an additament; addi- 
tional. 
The numerous . . . additamentary bones which are met 
with in old cases of osteo-arthritis. 
T. Holmes, Syst. of Surg., IV. 27. 
addition (a-dish'on), re. [< ME. addition, -oun, 
< F. addition, < L. 'additio(n-), < addere, increase: 
68 
see add.] 1. The act or process of adding or 
uniting, especially so that the parts remain 
independent of one another : opposed to sub- 
traction or diminution : as, a sum is increased 
by addition ; to increase a heap by the addition 
of more. Speeilu-ully. in nrith., the uniting of two or 
more numbers in OIK- sum ; also, that branch of arithmetic 
which treats of such c< nut linat inns. ,s'i ' n>j>!'' addition is the 
adding of numbers, irrespective of the tilings denoted by 
them, or the adding of sums of the same denomination, as 
pounds to pounds, ounces to ounces, etc. Compound ad- 
dition is the adding of sums of different denominations, as 
pounds, shillings, and pence to pounds, shillings, and 
pence, like being added to like. The addition of all kinds 
of multiple quantity is performed according to the prin- 
ciple of compound addition ; thus, the addition of two 
imaginary quantities is effected by adding the real parts 
together to get the new real part, and the imaginary parts 
to get the new imaginary part. Logical addition is a mode 
of combination of terms, propositions, or arguments, re- 
sulting in a compound (the sum), tme if any of the ele- 
ments are true, and false only if all are false. 
2. The result of adding ; anything added, whe- 
ther material or immaterial. 
Her youth, her beauty, innocence, discretion, 
Without addition! of estate or birth, 
Are dower for a prince indeed. 
Ford, Ixjver's Melancholy, v. 1. 
Specifically (a) In laic, a title or designation annexed to 
a man's name to show his rank, occupation, or place of resi- 
dence : as, John Doe, Emi. ; Richard Roe, Gent. ; Robert 
Dale, Mamn; Thomas Way, of Boston. Hence (6) An 
epithet or any added designation or description : a use 
frequent in Shakspere, but now obsolete. 
They clepe us drunkards, and with swinish phrase 
Soil our addition. Shale., Hamlet, 1. 4. 
This man, lady, hath robbed many beasts of their partic- 
ular addition* ; he is as valiant as the lion, churlish as the 
bear, slow as the elephant. Shak., T. and C., L 2. 
(ct) In tnn.fi'-, a dot at the side of a note indicating that 
its sound is to be lengthened one half, (d) In her., same 
as augmentation, (e) In dixtilliny, anything added to the 
wash or liquor when in a state of fermentation. Exer- 
cise and addition. See exercise. Geometrical addi- 
tion, or addition Of vectors, the finding of a vector 
quantity, S, such that if the vectors to be added are placed 
in a linear series, each after the first beginning where the 
one before it ends, then, in whatever order they are taken, 
if S be made to begin where the first of the added vectors 
begins, it ends where the last ends. = Syn. 1. Adding, an- 
nexation. 2. Superaddition, appendage, adjunct, in- 
crease, increment, extension, enlargement, augmentation. 
addition (a-dish'pn)j v. t. If. To furnish with 
an addition, or a designation additional to one's 
name. 
Some are additionfd with the title of laureate. 
Fuller, Worthies, Cambridgeshire. 
2. To combine ; add together. [Rare.] 
The breaking up of a whole into parts really precedes 
in facility the additionintj of parts into a whole, for the 
reason that the power of destruction in a child obviously 
precedes the power of construction. 
Pop. Set. Mo., XXVII. 617. 
additional (a-dish'on-al), a. and n. [=F. ad- 
ditionnel, < L. as if 'additional!*, (. aMitio(n-) : 
see addition.] I. n. Added ; supplementary. 
Every month, every day indeed, produces its own novel- 
ties, with the additional zest that they are novelties. 
De Quinceu, Style, iv. 
Additional accompaniments, in uiwrfe. See accom- 
ixiiii inent. 
II. n. Something added; an addition. [Rare.] 
Many thanks for the additional* you are pleased to 
communicate to me, in continuance of Sir Philip Sidney's 
Arcadia. Howell, Letters, iv. 20. 
additionally (a-dish'on-al-i), adv. By way of 
addition. 
additionaryt (a-dish'on-a-ri), a. Additional. 
What is necessary, and what is aiiditionary. 
Herbert, Country Parson, xxxi. 
addititious (ad-i-tish'us), a. [< LL. additicius, 
additional, < L. addere, pp. additus, add : see 
add.] Additive; additional; characterized by 
having been added. [Rare.] 
additive (ad'i-tiv), a. [< LL. additicus, added, 
< L. addere, pp. additus, add : see add.] To be 
added; of the nature of an addition; helping 
to increase: as, an additive correction (a cor- 
rection to be added). 
The general sum of such work is great ; for all of it, as 
genuine, tends towards one goal ; all of it is additive, none 
of it subtractive. Carlyle, Hero Worship, iv. 
additively (ad'i-tiv-li), adv. By way of addi- 
tion ; in an additive manner. 
additor (ad'i-tor), n. [< L. as if 'additor, < ad- 
der*', pp. additus, add: see add.] A piece of link- 
work for adding angles, forming part of Kempe's 
apparatus for describing algebraic curves. 
addltory (ad'i-to-ri), a. [< L. as if *additoriux: 
see additor.] Adding or capable of adding; 
making some addition. Arbuthnot. [Rare.] 
addle 1 (ad'l), n. and a. [< ME. adel (as in adel 
eij, addle egg), orig. a noun, < AS. adela, mud, 
= MLG. adele, mud, = East Fries, adel, dung 
C>adeliff, foul, comp. adelpol, addle-pool; ef. 
Lowland Sc. addle dub, a filthy pool), = OSw. 
adel, in comp. Jco-adel, cow-urine. No connec- 
address 
tion with AS. adl, disease.] I. n. 1. Liquid 
filth ; putrid urine or mire ; the drainage from 
a dunghill. [Prov. Eng.] 2f. The dry lees of 
wine, Bailey; Asli. 3. Same as attle 1 . 
II. a. [Addle egg, ME. adrl <>/. <>i|iiiv. to ML. 
oriim iirina; lit. egg of urine, a perversion of L. 
until/ annum (Pliny), repr. Gr. wov ovpwav, a 
wind-egg (oiipoc, a wind). A popular etym. con- 
nected addle, as an adj., with idle: "An adle 
egge, q. idle egge, because it is good for noth- 
ing" (Minsheu).] 1. Having lost the power 
of development and become rotten; putrid: 
applied to eggs. Hence 2. Empty; idle; 
vain; barren; producing nothing; muddled, 
confused, as the head or brqin. 
To William all give audience, 
And pray ye for his noddle, 
For all the Fane's evidence 
Were lost, if that were addle. 
Bp. Corbet, Farewell to the Faeryes. 
His brains grow addle. 
Dryden, Prol. to Don Sebastian, 1. 24. 
addle 1 (ad'l), r. ; pret. and pp. addled, ppr. ad- 
tl/iiii/. [(addle 1 , a.] I. trans. 1. To make cor- 
rupt or putrid, as eggs. 
'Iliemselves were chilled, their eggs were addled. 
Cowpc,r, Pairing Time Anticipated. 
Hence 2. To spoil ; make worthless or inef- 
fective; muddle; confuse: as, to addle the 
brain, or a piece of work. 
. His cold procrastination addled the victory of Lepanto, 
as it had formerly addled that of St. Quentin. 
fiiM/aam, Sch. Shak., I. 97. (A T . E. D.) 
3. To manure with liquid. [Scotch.] 
II. iittrans. To become addled, as an egg; 
hence, to come to nought ; be spoiled. 
addle 2 (ad'l), v. ; pret. and pp. addled, ppr. ad- 
dling. [E. dial., also eddle, CME. addlen, adlen. 
earn, gain, Icel. o'dhla, in refl. odhlask, spelled 
also wdhlask, win, gain, < odhal, patrimony,= AS. 
ethel, home, dwelling, property.] I. trans. To 
earn : accumulate gradually, as money. [North. 
Eng.] 
Parson's lass . . . 
Mun be a guvness, lad, or summut, and addle her bread. 
Tennyson, Northern Farmer, N. S. 
Il.t intrans. To produce or yield fruit ; ripen. 
Where ivy embraceth the tree very sore, 
Kill ivy, else tree will addle no more. 
Turner, Five Hundred Points (1573), p. 47. 
addle 2 (ad'l), . [< addle?, i\] Laborers' wages. 
Halliwell. [Prov. Eng.] 
addle-brain (ad'1-bran), n. [< addle 1 , a., + 
brain,] A stupid bungler ; an addle-pate. 
addle-headed (ad'1-hed'ed), a. [< addle*, a., + 
head + -ed 2 .] Stupid ; muddled. An equiva- 
lent form is addle-pated. 
addlement (ad'1-ment), M. [< addle 1 , v., + 
-mcnt.] The process of addling or of becom- 
ing addled. N. E. D. 
addle-pate (ad'l-pat), . [<drftel, a., + pate.] 
A stupid person. 
It is quite too overpowering for such addle-pates as this 
gentleman and myself. Mn. Craik, Ogilvies, p. 138. 
addle-pated (ad'l-pa*td), a. [As addle-pate 
+ -crft.] Same as addle-Jieaded. 
addle-plot (ad'1-plot), n. [< addle 1 , v., + obj. 
plot' 2 .] A person who spoils any amusement ; 
a marsport or marplot. 
addle-pool (ad'l-pol), w. [< addle 1 + pool 1 } = 
East Fries, adelpol.] A pool of filthy water. 
Halliwell. [Prov. Eng.] 
addling 1 (ad'ling), . [Verbal n. of addle 1 , v.] 
1. Decomposition of an egg. 2. Muddling of 
the wits. 
addling 2 (ad'ling), . [Verbal n. of addle 2 , t,'.] 
1. The act of earning by labor. 2. pi. That 
which is earned; earnings. Also written ad- 
HIII/K. [North. Eng.] 
addoomt (a-dom'), v. t. [< ad- + doom. Cf. ad- 
deem.] To adjudge. 
Unto me addootn that is my dew. 
Spenter, F. Q., VII. vii. 56. 
addorsed, p. a. See adorsed. 
address (a-dres'), v. ; pret. and pp. addressed 
(also addfest), ppr. addressing. [< ME. adressen, 
< OF. adresser, adressier, adresier, earlier ad- 
rescer, adrecer, adrecier, etc., F. adresser = Pr. 
adreysar=Sp. aderezar = Pg. aderec,ar = lt. nd- 
dirizzare,<.ML. "addrictiare (addretiare, addres- 
sare, etc.) for "addirectiare, < ad. to, + *dric- 
tiare, "directiare, make straight, > OF. drescer, 
dresser, > E. dress : see a- 11 , ad-, and dress, v.] I. 
trans. If. Primarily, to make direct or straight; 
straighten, or straighten up; hence, to bring 
into line or order, as troops (see dress) ; make 
right in general ; arrange, redress, as wrongs, 
etc. X. E. 1}. 2+. To direct in a course or to 
