adjag 
adjag (aj'ag), n. [Native name in Java.] A 
kind of wild dog, Caiiix rittilaim, found in Java. 
The dog-tribe is represented by the fox-like adjag (Cam* 
rutilans), which hunts in ferocious packs. 
Kiiftjc. Brit., XIII. 603. 
adject (a-jekf), v. t. [< L. adjectus, pp. of 
adjicere, usually contr. adicere, add, put to, 
< ad, to, + jacSre, throw : see jactation, jet 1 .] 
To add or put, as one thing to another; annex. 
[Rare.] 
Lanstufan castel and lordship by the new act is . 
adjected to Pembrokeshire. Leland, Itinerary, III. 2(i. adjourn (a-jern') i\ 
adjection (a-jek'shon), n. [< L. adjectio(n~), an 
addition, < adjicere, adicere, add: see adject.'] 
The act of adjecting or adding, or the thing 
added. [Rare.] 
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as an assistant: see adjoin.'] If. One who is 
joined or associated with another as a helper; 
an adjunct. [Bare.] 
You are, madam, I perceive, said he, a public minister, 
and this lady is your adjoint. 
Gentleman Instructed, p. 108. 
2. [Pron. a-jwan'.] In France, specifically 
(a) An assistant of or substitute for the mayor 
of a commune, or in Paris of an arrondisse- 
ment. (6) An assistant professor in a col- 
lege. 
[<ME. ajournen, ajornen, 
adjunct 
Happily we are not without authority on this point. 
It has been considered and adjudged. 
D. Webster, Speech, March 10, 1818. 
3. To pass sentence on ; sentence or condemn. 
Those rebel spirits adjudged to hell. 
Milton, P. L.,iv. 823. 
4f. To deem; judge; consider. [Rare.] 
He adjudged him unworthy of his friendship. Knolles. 
= Syn. To decree, adjudicate. 
n. intrans. To decree; decide ; pass sentence. 
There let him still victor sway, 
As battel hath adjudged. Milton, P. L., x. 377. 
This Is added to complete our happiness, by the adjn- 
tion of eternity. Bp. Pearson, Expos, of Creed, xii. 
ad.jectitious (ad-jek-tish'us), a. f< LL. adjec- 
titius, better spelled adjecticius, added, beside, < 
L. adjectus, pp. : see adject.'] Added ; additional : 
as^ " adjectitious work," Maundrell. [Rare.] 
adjectival (ad-jek-ti'val or aj'ek-ti-val), a. 
[{adjective + -al.~] Belonging to or like an ad- 
jective ; having the import of an adjective. 
The more frequent employment of Inith the participles 
with an adjectival syntax is. in its origin, a Gallicism. 
ft P. Marsh, Lects. on Eng. Lang., p. 658. 
Relatively to the real, which Is substantival, the idea 
is adjectival. Mind, IX. 127. 
< OF. ajorner, ajurner,F. ajourner = Pg. a/or- adjudgeable (a-juj'a-bl), a. [< adjudge + 
r = It. aggiornare, < ML. adiurnare, adjurnare, -able.] Capable of being adjudged. 
(idjornare, fix a day. summon for a particular Burgh customs still stand in the peculiar position 
day, < L. ad, to, + LL. "diltrnus, *jurnus, *jornus being neither adjudgeable. nor arrestable. 
Encyc. Brit., IV. 63. 
(> It. giorno = Pr. jorn = OF. jor, jur, F. jour, a 
day), <.li.diurnus, daily, (dies, day: eeediurnal, adjudgement, n. See adjudgment. 
journal.'} I. traits. 1 . To put off or def er, prop- ad^udger (a-juj'er), n. One who adjudges. 
erly to another day, but also till a later period adjudgment (a-juj'ment), n. The act of ad- 
indefinitely. judging; adjudication"; sentence. Also spelled 
adjudgement. 
Or how the sun shall in mid heaven stand still 
A day entire, and night's due course adjourn. 
Milton, P. L, xii. 264. 
The adju<liim.'iit (if the punishment. 
Sir W. Temple, Introd. to Hist. Eng. 
It is a common practice to adjourn the reformation of adjudicataire (a-io'di-ka-tar') n TF < L 
their lives to a further time. Barrou'. an j udicatu8> pp . o f J adjudicare : see adjudicate.] 
Specifically 2. To suspend the meeting of, In Canada, a purchaser at a judicial sale, 
as a public or private body, to a future day adjudicate (a-jo'di-kat), v. ; pret. and pp. ad- 
or to another place ; also, defer or postpone to judicated, ppr. adjudicating. [< L. adjudicatus, 
a future meeting of the same body : as, the pp. of adjudicare, award, decide. < ad, to, + 
.. p f n -- j 7 v rr Ml v ""-' * t.j * TI 1 1 1 1 1 . wvuMm N i+t*j i/v 
adjectivally (ad-jek-ti val-i or aj'ek-ti-val-i), court adjourned the consideration of the ques- judicare, judge: see adjudge and judge.] I. 
adv. By way of or as an adjective : as, a iiouu tion. trans. To adjudge ; pronounce judgment upon ; 
or participle adjectivally used, 
adjective (aj'ek-tiv), a. and . [< L. adjectivus, 
that is added (only as a grammatical term),< ad- 
jectus, pp. of adjicere, add: see adject.'] I. a. 1. 
Naming or forming an adjunct to a noun : as, 
an adjective name. 2. Pertaining to an adjec- 
The queen being absent, 't is a needful fitness 
That we adjourn this court till further day. 
Shot., Hen. VIII., U. 4. 
11. intrans. To suspend a sitting or trans- 
action till another day, or transfer it to another 
place: usually said of legislatures, courts, or 
tive: as, the adjective use of a noun. 3. Added other formally organized bodies : as, the legis- 
t\v >.(\\ai*+*t\ n HHitinn al n?oi^ T .ji _..ii.._ ~-i lfl.t,171*A fltj'mtirnptl at". fAni rji*\f\rt\e tVia YvmAtinrv 
oradjected; additional. [Rare.] Adjective col- 
or, in dyeing, a color which is not absorbed directly from 
its solution by the fibers of the substance dyed, but can be 
fixed only by a mordant or by some other means : opposed to 
substantive color, which the fibers directly absorb. Ad- 
Jectlvelaw. See law. Noun adjective, a word stand- 
ing for the name of an attribute : now usually adjective, n. 
See below. 
lature adjourned at four o'clock ; the meeting 
adjourned to the town hall TO adjourn sine die 
(literally, to adjourn without day), to adjourn without set- 
ting a time to reconvene or sit again ; specifically, to ad- 
journ without intending or expecting to sit again: the 
usual formula of minutes recording the proceedings of a 
body, as a court martial, whose existence terminates with 
the business for which it was convened. 
II. n. 1. In arum., a word used to nualifv, adimirnal (a-ier'nal^ n l"< adiourn + -fil 
j_fl t, 3 ' ""J""""" Vft J "ft 1 ;. l\ uyourn -w. 10 pass on a veraict 01 personal taste, under the guise 
limit, or denne a noun, or a word or phrase In Scots law, the proceedings of a single day uf an adjudieation of science. F Hall Mod Eng p 81 
which has the value of a noun ; a part of speech in, or of a single sitting of, the Court of Justi- 
award judicially. 
Superior force may end in conquest ; . . . but it cannot 
adjudicate any right. Sumner, True Grand, of Nations. 
II. intrant. To sit in judgment ; give a judi- 
cial decision : with upon : as, the court adjudi- 
cated upon the case. 
From the whole taken in continuation, but not from any 
one as an insulated principle, you come into a power of 
adjudicating upon the pretensions of the whole theory. 
De Quinary, Style, ii. 
adjudication (a-jo-di-ka'shon), n. [< L. adjudi- 
catio(n-),< adjudicare: see adjudicate."] 1. The 
act of adjudicating; the act or process of deter- 
mining or adjudging ; a passing of judgment. 
To pass off a verdict of personal taste, under the guise 
expressing quality or condition as belonging to 
something: thus, tvhiteness is the name of a 
quality, and is a noun ; white means possessing 
whiteness, and so is an adjective. The adjective 
eiary: equivalent to sederunt as applied to a 
civil court Act of adjournal, the record of a sen- 
tence in a criminal cause. Book of adjournal, a book 
containing the records of the Court of Justiciary". 
l*v*J**^v I ^. t lie UJCLL1*U j. , . .. . .. r> *-VTV 
is used attributively, appositively, or predicatively : thus, adjournment (ft-jcrn ment), n. [< Or . ajourne- 
attributively in "a wine ruler "; 'appositively, in 4 "'a ruler 
wise and good"; predicatively, in "the ruler is mte." 
Commonly abbreviated to a. or adj. 
2f. A dependant or an accessory ; a secondary 
or subsidiary part. 
adjective (aj'ek-tiv), v. t. To make an adjec- 
tive of ; form into an adjective ; give the char- 
acter of an adjective to. [Rare.] 
ment, earlier ajornement': seeadjourn a.nd-ment.'] 
1. The act of postponing or deferring. 
We run our lives out in adjournments from time to time. 
L'Kstrange. 
2. The act of discontinuing a meeting of a 
, 
public or private body or the transaction of any Scots law, adjudication 
business until a fixed date or indefinitely. are more debts than one 
" hi " h '"""' '* " ""' *' 
2. In law : (a) A judicial sentence ; judg- 
ment or decision of a court. (6) The act of a 
court declaring an ascertained fact : as, an 
adjudication of bankruptcy. 
The consequence of adjudication is that all the bank- 
rupt's property veats in the registrar of the court until 
the appointment by the creditors of a trustee, and there- 
after in the trustee. Encyc. Brit., III. 343. 
3. In Scots law, the diligence or process by 
which land is attached in security for or in 
payment of a debtArticulate adjudication, i 
"~ 
, 
which is often used where there 
ie due to the adjudging creditor ; in 
3 The rjeriod during which a nnblic hndv ml- which case it is usual to accumulate each debt by itself. 
In English, instead of adjrctimng our own nouns, we . iue P e "" uu >ouy au- so that in case of an error in ascertainina or calculating 
ivo hnrrnu/oH i,. , ,)..,....,; ! lOlims its Slttintrs: a.a. iliinno- an tirlirmrunifnt "",'" <-*t 01 ii enoi in ascertaining or (.aiLUiaunK 
have borrowed in immense numbers adjectived signs from 
other languages, without borrowing the unadjectived signs 
of these ideas. Home Tookr, Purley. 
adjectively (aj'ek-tiv-li), adv. In the manner 
of an adjective : as, the word is here used ad- 
jectively. 
adjiger (aj'i-ger), n. [Anglo-Iud., repr. Hind. 
ajgar.'] A large Indian rock-snake, Python mo- 
lurus. See anaconda. 
adjoin (a-join'), v. [< ME. ajninen, < OF. ajoin- 
dre (F. adjoindre), < L. adjunt/ere, < ad, to, + 
jungere, join: see join.'] I. trans. 1. To join 
on or add ; unite ; annex or append. 
A massy wheel . . . 
To whose huge spokes ten thousand lesser things 
Are mortis'd and adjoin'd. Shak., Hamlet, iii. 3. 
2. To be contiguous to or in contact with : as, 
his house adjoins the lake ; a field adjoining 
the lawn. 
As one . . . 
Forth issuing on a summer's morn, to breathe 
Among the pleasant villages and farms 
Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives delight. 
journs its sittings: as, during an adjournment 
of six weeks Adjournment In eyre, in old Eng. 
law, the appointment by the justices in eyre, or circuit 
judges, of a day for future session. = Syn. Adjournment, 
Jiecets, Prorogation, Dissolution. Adjournment is the act 
by which an assembly suspends ite session in virtue of 
authority inherent in itself ; it may be also the time or in- 
terval of such suspension. A recess is a customary sus- 
pension of business, as during the period of certain 
recognized or legal holidays : as, the Easter recess ; a 
recess for Washington's birthday. Recess is also popu- 
larlr- ---'" - 
arlyused for a brief suspension of business for anyreason : adjudicature (a-jo'di 
s, It was agreed that there be a recess of ten minutes. rXte + tirf ^ Thn S>K 
^prorogation is the adjournment of the sittings of a 
one of the debts, the error may affect only that debt. 
Effectual adjudication, in Scots law, a form of action 
by which real property is attached by a creditor. Former 
adjudication, in law, a previous judicial decision be- 
tween the same parties or those whom they succeed, 
availab|e ; or sought to be made available, to bar a subse- 
quent litigation involving the same point. 
idjudicator (a-jo'di-ka-tor), n. [< L. as if "ad- 
judicator, < adjudicare: see adjudicate."] One 
who adjudicates. 
"1-ka-tur''), n. [< adjudi- 
act of 'process of adju " 
eating j adjudication. 
[< L. adjugatus, pp. 
. to, + jugare, join, < 
jugum (= E. yoke), < jungere, join : see yoke and 
join."] To yoke to. Bailey. 
adjudi- 
legislative body at the instance of the authority which , 
called it together, as the sovereign ; during a prorogation adjugatet (aj'o-gat), V. t. 
it can hold no sittings, but in order to resume business of adjugare unite < ad 
mu !? , be , 1 a e, a . in summoned : the close of a session of the j,, mim /L p. , ln i. K i V ;;, 
British Parliament is called a prorogation. Dissolution 
is the act by which the body, as such, is broken up, and its . . - 
members are finally discharged from their duties. The adjumentt (aj'6-ment), n. [< L. adjumentum, a 
United States House of Representatives dissolves every means of aid, a contr. of "adjuvamentum, < ad- 
two years at a time fixed by law, but the Senate has a ,;..,., olr, niH o ;/? V TTol, 
continuous life, and therefore adjourns from one Congress tre - " ilDl a ' e " K1 Lehl : sinmnrt : 
to another. The dissolution of the British Parliament 
necessitates a new election ; the dissolution of the United 
States House of Representatives is provided for by law, an 
support; 
election being previously held. 
,f... 1 T 1 Jin *-lnnl.Il Mt*lll plc*lUUBl 11C1U. 
Milton, p. L, ix. 449. a( jj oustti ,.. obsolete form of adjust. 
icnirniQ no 1^1* l\.a J <4> A ,,-*...,. _.e .- i i 
II. intrans. 1. To be contiguous ; lie or be adjt.' A'contraction of adjutant. 
tact: with to: as, "a farm ad- adjudge (a-juj'), v.; pret. and pp. adjudged, 
next, or in contact : with to : as, 
joining to the highway," Blactetone. 2f. To 
approach ; join. 
She lightly unto him adjoyned syde to syde 
Spenser, F. Q., III. vii. 42. 
adjoinantt (a-joi'nant), a. [< F. adjoignant, 
ppr. of adjoindre : see adjoin.'] Contiguous. 
To the town there is adjoinant in site ... an ancient 
castle. R. Carew, Survey of Cornwall. 
adjoint (aj'oint), n. [< F. adjoint, assistant, 
adjunct, prop. pp. of adjoindre, adjoin, assign 
ppr. adjudging.' [< ME. adjugen, ajugen, < OF. 
ajugier, ajuger, F. adjuger, < L. adjudicare, 
award, decide, < ad, to, + judicare, decide : see 
judge ;and adjudicate."] I. trans. 1. To award 
judicially; assign: as, the prize was adjudged 
to him. 
Ajax ran mad, because his arms were adjudged to 
I l.vss,^. Burton, Anat. of Mel., p. 166. 
2. To decide by a judicial opinion or sentence ; 
adjudicate upon; determine; settle. 
juvare, help, aid: see aid.'] Help; 
that which supports or assists. 
Nerves are adjuments to corporal activity. 
Waterhouse, Fortescue, p. 197. 
adjunct (aj'ungkt), a. and n. [< L. adjunetus, 
J' Dined to, added, pp. of adjungere : see adjoin."] 
. a. 1. United with another (generally in a 
subordinate capacity) in office or in action of 
any kind: as, an adjunct professor. 2. Added 
to or conjoined with, as a consequence; attend- 
ing; accompanying. 
Though that my death were adjunct to my act, 
By Heaven, I would do it. Shak., K. John, iii. 3. 
Adjunct diagnostics. See diagnostic. Adjunct note, 
in mimic, an unaccented auxiliary note not forming an 
essential part of the harmony. 
II. n. 1. Something added to another, but 
not essentially a part of it. 
