adiaphorist 
adiaphorist (ad-i-af'o-rist), . [< adiaphorous 
+ -int.} A person characterized by indiffer- 
ence or moderation, especially in religious mat- 
ters. Specifically [cap.], a follower or supporter "t Mi 
lanchthon in the controversy which arose in the reformed 
church in the sixteenth century regarding certain doc- 
trines and rites publicly admitted by Melanohthon ami 
his party, in the document known as the Leipsic Interim, 
to be matters of indifference. See interim. Also called 
adiapttm-tt' . 
He [Lord Burleigh] may have been of the same mind 
with those German Protestants who were called A tit ir;A- 
orist* and who considered the popish rites as matters 
indifferent. Macautaii, Kurleigli. 
adiaphoristic (ad-i-af-o-ris'tik), a. 1. Pertain- 
ing to things which are'morally indifferent ; adi- 
aphorous. 2. Relating to the adiaphorists. 
See adiaphorist. 
adiaphorite (ad-i-af'6-rit), n. [< adiaphorous 
+ -ite'*.} Same as adiaphorist. 
adiaphoron (ad-i-af'o-ron), n. ; pi. adiaphora 
(-rii). [NL., < Gr. aSicujiopw, neut. of a<iid0opof, 
indifferent: see adiaphorous.} In theoJ. and 
ethics, a thing indifferent; a tenet or practice 
which may be considered non-essential. 
Life and death are among the adiaphora things indif- 
ferent which may be chosen or rejected according to cir- 
cumstances. Q. P. Fisher, Begin, of Christianity, p. 175. 
He [Luther] classed images in themselves as among the 
adiauhora, and condemned only their cultus. 
Kncyc. Brit., XII. 714. 
adiaphorosis (ad-i-af-o-ro'sis), n. [NL., im- 
prop. for adiaphoresis, assimilated to term. 
-osis, q. v.] Same as adiaphoresis. 
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adightt (a-dif), r. /. [<ME. adihtni, adialtten, 
< AS. "a'dilitini, < it- + dilitan, arrange, dight: 
see dight.} To set in order. See<tii/l<t. 
adightt (ii-dlf), p. 11. [< ME. adilit, mliglit, pp. : 
see the verb.] Set in order ; arrayed. 
ad indefinitum (ad iu-def-i-ni'tum). [L. : ad, 
to; indefinitum, ace. neut. of indefinitus, indefi- 
nite : see indefinite.} To the indefinite ; indefi- 
nitely; to an indefinite extent. AM expression used 
by some writers in place of ad uifmitum, as being in their 
opinion more precise. 
ad inf. An abbreviation of Latin ad infiiiitum 
(which see). 
ad inflnitum (ad in-fi-ni'tum). [L.: ad, to, 
unto; iiifinitum, ace. neut. of infinitus, infinite: 
see infinite.} To infinity; endlessly; on and on 
without end ; through an infinite series. 
adinole (ad'i-nol), n. [Etym. uncertain.] A 
hard, compact rock, composed of quartz and 
albite, produced by the alteration of certain 
schists due to the influence of intruded dia- 
base. 
ad inquirendum (ad iu-kwi-ren'dum). [L., for 
the purpose of inquiring: ad, to, for ; inquiren- 
dum, gerund of inquirere, inquire : see inquire.} 
In law, a judicial writ commanding inquiry to 
be made concerning a cause depending in a 
court. 
ad int. An abbreviation of ad interim (which 
see). 
different, 
(= L. differe > E. differ), 
p., = Pg. adeos = It. 
] Adieu ; good-by. 
nor wrong. 
Why does the Church of Home charge upon others the 
shame of novelty for leaving of some rites and ceremonies 
which by her own practice we are taught to have no ob- 
ligation in them, but to be adiaphorous? 
Jer. Taylor, Liberty of Prophesying, 5. 
Hence 2f. Applied by Boyle to a spirit nei- 
ther acid nor alkaline. 3. In med., doing nei- 
ther good nor harm, as a medicament. 
time ; for the present. 
adios (a-de'os), inter j. 
addio = F . adieu : eeec 
[Southwestern TJ. S.] 
adipate (ad'i-pat), n. 
+ -ate 1 : see adipic. Cf. L. adipat 
with fat.] A salt of adipic acid, 
adipescent (ad-i-pes'ent), a. [< L. adeps 
(adip-), fat, + -escent.} " Becoming fatty. 
adipic (a-dip'ik), a. [< L. adeps (adip-), fat, + 
-ic2 : see adeps.} Of or belonging to fat. Adipic 
add Ce H lo4, an acil1 obtained by treating oleic acid 
or fatty bodies with nitric acid. It forms soft, white 
nodular crusts, which seem to be aggregates of small 
crystals. 
adipocerate (ad-i-pos'e-rat), r. t. ; pret. and pp. 
adjacently 
II. " Fat in general; specifically, the fat 
on the kidneys. 
adiposis (ad-i-po'sis), n. [NL., <~L.adt-ti(tidip-), 
fat, + -oxis.} 1. General corpulency. 2. The 
accumulation of fat in or upon a single organ. 
adiposity (ad-i-pos'jt-ty), . [< NL. as if *a*'- 
positas, < adiposws : see adipose and -ity.} Fat- 
ness; adiposis. 
adipous (ad'i-pus), a. [< L. adeps (adip-), fat, 
+ -ous. Cf. adipose.} Fat; of the nature of 
fat; adipose. 
adipsia (a-dip'si-a), n. [NL., < Gr. as if *adji/ro, 
absence of thirst, < ddi^oc, not thirsty: see adip- 
sous.} In med., absence of thirst. Also called 
adipsy. 
adipSOUS (a-dip'sus), a. [< Gr. adii/wf, not thirsty, 
< (i- priv. + di^a, thirst : see adipsia.} Tending 
to quench thirst, as certain fruits. 
adipsy (ad'ip-si), . Same as adipsia. 
adit (ad'it), n. [< L. aditus, an approach, < 
adire, pp. aditus, approach, < ad, to, + ire, go: 
see itinerant. Cf. exit.} 1. An entrance or a 
passage ; specifically, in mining, a nearly hori- 
zontal excavation, or drift (which see), specially 
used to conduct from the interior to the surface 
the water which either comes into the workings 
from above or is pumped up from below. The word 
tunnel is in general use in the United States, and especially 
in the western mining regions, for adit ; but the former 
properly signifies an excavation open at both ends, such as 
is used in railroads. When there are two or more adits, 
the lowest is called the deep adit. Adits are occasionally 
several miles in length. The so-called Sutro tunnel, 
draining the Comstock lode at Virginia City, Nevada, is 
the most extensive work of this kind yet constructed in 
the United States. It is about 20,000 feet in length, and 
intersects the lode at a depth of about 2000 feet. Also 
called adit-level. See cut under level. 
2. Milit., a passage under ground by which 
miners approach the part they intend to sap. 
Wilhelm, Mil. Diet. 3. Admission; access; 
approach. [Rare.] 
Yourself and yours shall have 
Free adit. Tennyson, Princess, vi. 
proachmg. 
adit-level (ad'it-lev"el), . Same as adit, I. 
a .<3iv'), . [Appar. a native name.] 
.indifference. + -<jte2.] To 'convert into adip'ocere. Craig. a Hi 
adiapneustia (ad"i-ap-nus ti-a), H. [NL., <Gr. adipocera tion (ad-i-pos-e-ra'shon), H, The act ??T- 
ManrvewTTla, < a- priv. + dunrvevoT-tnof ,<> Ountvn^, of changing or t h e sta te of being changed into 
breathe through, perspire, < Aa through, 4 di | Crai ing adjacent ; adjacency. 
ITMMV, breathe.] In pathol., defective perspira- adit i ocere ( a d'i-po-sev"1. . r=F. adivocire. < -ji7.^' L O n . . 
tion; adiaphoresis. Dunglison. *- ~ 
adiathermanous (a - di - a - ther'ma - 
Gr. <i- priv. (a- 18 ) + diathermanous, 
adiathermic.} Same as adiathermic. 
A body impervious to light is opaque, impervious to 
dark heat it is adiathermanous. 
A. Daniell, Prin. of Physics, p. 448. 
adiathermic (a-di-a-ther'mik), a. [< Gr. d- 
priv. (a- 18 ) + diathermic.} Impervious to radi- 
ant heat. 
abbreviation of adjective. 
(a-ja'sens), . [<ML. adjacentia, < 
'i-)s : see adjacent.} The state of be- 
mal matter when protected from the air, and w hi e j! j s adjacent. [Rare.] 
under certain conditions of temperature and Di9tracted by the vicinity of adjaeeiuiet. 
humidity. It consists chiefly of ammonium sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err., ii. 2. 
margarate, with an admixture of the marga- Alt laluls i )ey0 nd their own and its frontier adjacencies. 
rates of potassium and calcium. Adipocere mln- De Quincey, Herodotus. 
eral. a fatty matter found in some peat-mosses, and in the _j. ,,-_j. / = /-_(. \ OTlf i , IV T, nrKa- 
arSllaceous iron ore of Merthyr-Tydvil, Wales; adipoce- adjacent (a-ja sent), . alia . K i>. aja 
adicitV (a-dis'i-ti), n. [< -ad 1 (1) + -icity, as rite. It is inodorous when cold, but when heated it emits cen(t-)s, ppr. of adjacere, lie near, <. ad, to, -r 
matomieitii periodicity.} In ehem., combining a slightly bituminous odor. Also called adipocerile and jaeere, lie: seejacent.} I. a. Lying near, close, 
PHTOWMTV according as an element or a com- '<?'"'" . ,. . . ... 7 . or contiguous; adjoining; neighboring: as, a 
S a , S3 5l t., T M ralencu. adipOCeriform. (ad'i-po-ser i-form), a, [< *- field J*^ to the Mgllway . 
< OF. a Dieu, a Deu, mod. F. adieu, to which the 
mod. E. conforms in spelling ; = It. addio = Sp. 
to 
poundYs'a-monadTdyad^tcV;- same as valency. ^^^fo^'TK 11 ^ } Having field a ^ ieent to the M ^ way 
* E - * fi^J^l^raii^, I) s nterlnB along the ""y&jss&ssf. 
Tribes which are larger, or better organized, or both, 
conquer adjacent tribes and annex them. 
H. Spencer, Prin. of Sociol., 448. 
Adjacent angles. See angle.z. = Syn. Adjacent , Adjoin- 
ing, Contiguous. These words apply only to material 
things ; if they are applied to abstract things, it is only by 
considerable liberty in figurative use. They are not ap- 
plicable to separate persons or animals under any circum- 
stances. Adjacent villages, camps, herds ; adjoining fields ; 
eontiguma houses: not adjacent soldiers, cattle. Adja- 
cent lying near, neighboring, but not necessarily in con- 
- / ,i- ~\ tact - New York and the towns adjacent. Adjoining, joining 
iiinpuau, euu., \ ^LI. im*/;i/oo, x +J. adeps (amp-), to or on ^ S o as to touch. Contiguous, touching along a con- 
fat: see adeps.} I. a. Fatty; consisting of, re- slderable line, 
sembling, or having relation to fat Adipose 
deit : 
eral 
God : an expression of kind wishes at the part- 
ing of friends, equivalent to farewell; hence, a 
parting salutation in general : as, adieu to my 
hopes. 
Adewe, and adeive, blis! 
Testament of Love, ii. 292. 
Adieu, adieu ! my native shore 
Fades o'er the waters blue. 
Byron, Childe Harold, i. 13. 
Delightful summer ! then adieu! Hood, Summer. 
Syn. Adieu, Farewell, Good-by. These words have 
completely lost their original meanings. In use the dif- 
ference between them is only one of formality, good-by 
being the most common, and adieu the most formal. By 
the Society of Friends (and perhaps some other sects)/are- 
well is preferred, as not involving the careless mention of 
the name of God. In strict propriety, faremll is a parting 
salutation to persons going away. 
ipoma (ad-i-po'ma), n. Same as lipoma. 
ipose (ad'i-pos), a", and n. [= F. adipeux, Sp. 
arteries, the branches of the diaphragmatic, capsular, and 
renal arteries which nourish the fat around the kidneys. 
Adipose body, in entom., a peculiar fatty substance 
occupying a considerable portion of the interior of the 
body, and especially abundant in the full-grown larvso of 
insects, consisting of a yellowish tabulated mass lining the 
walls of the body-cavity and filling up the spaces between 
the viscera. Dalian. Adipose fin, a posterior dorsal ap- 
pendage, generally sacciform or pedunculated and more 
or less fat-like, but sometimes cariniform, developed in 
certain fishes, especially the salmonids and silurids. Adi- 
pose membrane, the cell-wall of a fat-cell; the ex- 
tremely delicate structureless membrane which surrounds 
adieu (a-du'; F. pron. a-dye'), n. ; pi. adieus or a fat-globule or vesicle of fat. Adipose sac, a fat-ceil 
(in French Spelling) adieilJC (a-duz', a-dye'). or fat-vesicle whose limiting cell-wall consists of an adi- 
A farewell or commendation to the care of God : P"se_membrane, and whose contents are^a 8lbuleof Jat. 
as, an everlasting adieu; to make one's adieus. 
We took our last adifit 
And up the snowy Splugen drew. 
Tennytun, Daisy. 
, 
Adipose tissue, a connective tissue <>( loose structure 
containing masses of fat-cells, that is, cells in which the 
protoplasm has been largely replaced by fat Adipose 
tissue underlies the skin, invests the kidneys, etc. Adi- 
pose tumor, a lipoma. 
From the barge 
A strange invisible perfume hits the sense 
Of the adjacent wharfs. Shak., A. and C., ii. 2. 
The Fire Tender is in the adjoining library, pretending 
to write. C. D. Warner, Backlog Studies, p. 72. 
[The Emperor of Morocco] is the only full-blown despot 
whose dominions lie contiffMOMs to civilization. 
T. B. Aldrich, Ponkapog to Pesth, p. 215. 
II. n. 1. That which is next or contiguous; 
an abutting neighbor. [Rare.] 
No adjacent, no equal, no co-rival. 
Slielford, Learned Discourses, p. 2211. 
2. In logic, a predicate Propositions of second 
adjacent propositions in which the copula and predicate 
are merged.- Propositions of third adjacent (tnuislu 
tion of (ireek Trporao-i? e -rpirov KaTTryopouiuerou), proposi- 
tions \vliusr cnpulji and predicate are separated. 
adjacently (a-ja'sent-li), adv. So as to be ad- 
jacent. 
