admittatur 
admission to membership in a university or 
college. 
admittedly (ad-mit'ed-li), ode. In an acknow- 
ledged manner ; confessedly. 
The influence of ocean-currents in the distribution of 
heat over the surface of the globe would still IT n'hnit 
tedly erroneous, J. Croll, Climate and Time, p. 52. 
admittendo clerico (ad-mi-ten'do kler'i-ko). 
[ML., for admitting a clerk (clergyman) : L. ad- 
mittendo, abl. of admittendus, gerund of admit- 
tere, admit: see admit; ML. clerico, abl. of cleri- 
cus, a clerk : see clerk.'] An old English writ, 
issued to the bishop instead of to the sheriff as 
in ordinary actions, to enforce a judgment es- 
tablishing the right of the crown to make a pre- 
sentation to a benefice. 
admittendo in socium (ad-mi-ten'do in so'- 
shi-um). [ML., for admitting as an associate : 
L. admittendo: see above ; in, to, as ; socium, ace. 
of socius, a fellow, associate: see social.'] An 
old English writ addressed to justices of assize 
requiring them to associate with themselves 
other designated persons, commonly knights of 
the county, in holding assizes at the circuit. 
admitter (ad-mit'er), n. One who or that which 
admits. 
admittible (ad-mit'i-bl), a. [< admit + -ible : 
see -able, -ible.] Same as admittable. 
admix (ad-miks'), v. t.; pret. and pp. admixed 
and admixt, ppr. admixing. [First in p. a. ad- 
mixed, prop, admixt, of L. origin, < admixtus, pp. 
of admiscere, mix with, < ad, to, + miscere = AS. 
miscan, E. mix. q. v.] To mingle with some- 
thing else ; add to something else. See mix. 
The small quantities of alkalies present [in the topaz] 
may be attributed either to admixed impurity, or to an 
incipient alteration. Amer. Jour. Sci., 3d ser., XXIX. 329. 
admixtiont (ad-miks'chon), n. [< L. admix- 
tio(n-), < admiscere, pp. admixtus, mix with: see 
admix.'] The act of mingling or admixing; a 
mingling of different substances ; the addition 
of an ingredient ; admixture. 
All metals may be calcined by strong waters, or by ad- 
mixtion of salt, sulphur, and mercury. Bacon. 
admixture (ad-miks'tur), n. [< L. admixtus, 
pp. of admiscere, mix with : see admix and mix- 
ture.'] 1. The act of mingling or mixing; the 
state of being mingled or mixed. 
When a metallic vapour is subjected to admixture with 
another gas or vapour, or to reduced pressure, its spectrum 
becomes simplified. J. N. Lockyer, Spect. Anal., p. 154. 
2. That which is mingled or formed by min- 
gling; a compound made by mixture. 3. An 
ingredient different in kind from that which 
gives a mixture its principal properties. 4. 
In general, anything added; especially, any 
alien element or ingredient. 
ad modum (ad mo'dum). [L. ; lit., to the way, 
mode, means, manner : ad, to ; modum, ace. of 
modus: see mode.'} In the manner; in such 
way, or to such effect ; as ; like. 
admonish (ad-mon'ish), v. t. [< ME. admon- 
yssJten, amonysshen, -esshen, -asen, etc., earlier 
and prop, amonesten, -4sten (adm- for am- in 
imitation of the L. original, and -ish for -est in 
imitation of verbs in -is/* 2 ), < OF. amonester 
(F. adntonester), advise, < ML. *admonistare, a 
corruption of admonitare, freq. of L. admonere, 
pp. admonitus, advise, < ad, to, + monere, advise, 
warn: see monish, monition.'] 1. To notify of 
or reprove for a fault ; reprove with mildness. 
Count him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a 
brother. 2 Thes. Hi. 15. 
2. To counsel against something; caution or 
advise ; exhort ; warn. 
I warn'd thee, I admonisfi'd thee, foretold 
The danger and the lurking enemy. 
Milton, P. L., ix. 1171. 
Me fruitful scenes and prospects waste 
Alike admonish not to roam. 
Cowper, The Shrubbery. 
3. To instruct or direct ; guide. 
Ye choice spirits that admonish me. 
Shak., 1 Hen. VI., v. 3. 
Moses was admonished of God when he was about to 
make the tabernacle. Heb. viii. 5. 
This view, which admonishes me where the sources of 
wisdom and power lie, carries upon its face the highest 
certificate of truth. Emerson, Nature. 
4. To inform; acquaint with; notify; remind; 
recall or incite to duty. 
The angel bright, 
Ere he drew nigh, his radiant visage tuni'd, 
Admonish'd by his ear. Jlillvn, P. L., iii. (147. 
But Maggie stood, right sair astonish'd, 
Till by the heel and hand admonish'd. 
Burns, Tarn o' Shanter. 
admonisher (ad-mon'ish-er), n. One who re- 
proves or counsels. 
Horace was a mild admonisher, a court satirist tit for 
the gentle times of Augustus. Itrinlm. 
79 
admonishingly (ad-mon'ish-ing-li), adv. By 
way of admonition ; in an admonishing manner. 
admonishment (ad-mon'ish-ment), . Admo- 
nition; counsel; warning. [Rare.] 
When was my lord so much ungently temper'd 
To stop his ears against admonishment f 
Tnarm, unarm, and do not flght to-day. 
Shak., T. and C., v. 3. 
Thy vrravr odmonilfaiMnte prevail with me. 
Shak., 1 Hen. VI., ii. 5. 
admonition (ad-mo-nish'on), n. [< ME. awoni- 
rioii, -<inn, < OF. a/monition, later admonition, < 
L. admonitio(n-), < admonere, advise, admonish: 
see admonish.'] 1. The act, or an act, of ad- 
monishing ; counsel or advice ; gentle reproof ; 
instruction in duties ; caution ; direction. 
Now all these things happened unto themforensamples: 
and they arc written for our admonition. 1 Cor. x. 11. 
He learns the look of things, and none the less 
For admonitions from the hunger-pinch. 
Browninif, Fra Lippo Lippi. 
2. Eccles., public or private reproof to reclaim 
an offender : the first step in church discipline, 
followed, when unheeded, by suspension or ex- 
communication. = Syn. Admonition, Reprehension, Re- 
proof, Monition, Censure, Reproach, Rebuke, Reprimand, 
remonstrance, expostulation, warning, suggestion, hint, 
intimation. In the primary and almost invariable sense, 
admonition, reprehension, and reproof are bestowed upon 
conduct which is morally defective. Censure and repre- 
hension may or may not be addressed directly to the per- 
son blamed ; the utterances expressed by the other words 
are always so addressed. Admonition is caution or warn- 
ing with reference to future conduct; it is often based 
upon past failures : as, admonition not to repeat a fault. 
It is often an official act, as of the authorities of a church, 
school, or college. Monition is a softer word, and is mostly 
confined to subjective promptings or warnings : as, the 
monition)! of conscience or of reason. The other words 
are wholly retrospective. Reprehension may be the mild- 
est of them, or may be strengthened by an adjective : as, 
the severest reprehension. It is unofficial, and may de- 
note the act of an equal. Reproof is the act of a superior 
or elder, an authoritative and personal censure. Censure 
is unfavorable judgment, generally severe, possibly official. 
Reproach is censure with opprobrium ; it is used chiefly as 
a relief to excited feelings, and is intended to humiliate 
rather than correct. Rebukeis energeticand summary, like 
stopping one's mouth ; it implies feeling, like reproach, 
but more self-control. Reprimand istheactof asuperior, 
is severe, and is often official and public as a form of pen- 
alty : as, sentenced to receive a reprimand from his com- 
manding officer in the presence of the regiment. (See the 
discrimination of corresponding verbs under censure, v.) 
A man that is an heretic, after the first and second ad- 
monition, reject. Tit. iii. 10. 
The admonitions, fraternal or parental, of his fellow- 
Christians, or the governors of the church, then more pub- 
lic reprehensions. Hammond. 
Those best can bear reproof who merit praise. 
Pope, Essay on Criticism, 1. 583. 
Divine monition Nature yields, 
That not by bread alone we live. 
Wordsworth, Devotional Incitements. 
The pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, 
is more acute than the pleasure of much praise. 
Jefferson, Correspondence, II. 440. 
Dread of reproach, both by checking cowardice in battle 
and by restraining misbehaviour in social life, has tended 
to public and private advantage. 
H. Spencer, Prill, of Psychol., 526. 
My caution was more pertinent 
Than the rebuke you give it. Shak., Cor., ii. 2. 
The knight . . . inquires how such an one's wife, or 
mother, or son, or father doles], whom he does not see at 
church ; which is understood as a secret reprimand to the 
person absent. Add/son, Spectator. 
admonitioner (ad-mo-nish'on-er), n. [For- 
merly also adrnonishioner ; < admonition + -er 1 .] 
An admonisher ; a dispenser of admonitions ; 
specifically, an Admonitionist (which see). 
Hales. 
Admonitionist (ad-mo-nish'on-ist), n. [< ad- 
monition + -ist.~] A name given to the follow- 
ers of Thomas Cartwright, two of whom in 1572 
published "An Admonition to Parliament," fol- 
lowed by a second one by himself, strongly ad- 
vocating church government by presbyters as 
opposed to bishops, and the supremacy of the 
church over the state. 
admonitive (ad-mon'i-tiv), a. [< L. admonitus, 
pp. of admonere : see admonish.'] Containing 
admonition. [Rare.] 
Instructive and admonitive emblems. 
Barrow, Works, II. xxvi. 
admonitor (ad-mon'i-tor), n. [L., < admonere : 
see admonish.] An admonisher ; a monitor. 
Conscience . . . is at most times a very faithful and very 
prudent admonitor. Shenstone, Essays (1763), p. 222. 
admonitorial (ad-mon-i-to'ri-al), a. [< admoni- 
tory + -al.~] Reproving; admonishing ; having 
the manner of an admonitor ; admonitory. 
Miss Tox . . . had acquired an admonitorial tone, and 
u habit of improving passing occasions. 
Dickens, Dombey and Son, Ii. 
admonitorily (ad-mou'i-to-ri-li), adv. In an 
admonitory manner; with warning or reproof. 
Carlylc. 
ado 
admonitory (ad-mon'i-to-ri ). ii. [< L. as if *ad- 
iiiiniiloriiix ; cf. niliiKiiiitiirintti, an admonition.] 
Containing admonition; tending or serving to 
admonish: as, "admonitory of duty," Sarroir, 
Works, I. 430. 
She held up her small Imiul with an ailiimiiitori/ gesture. 
Charlotte limn/:', Shirley, ix. 
admonitrix (ad-mon'i-triks), n.; pi. admonitrices 
(ad-mon-i-tri'sez). [L., fern, of admonitor, 
q. v.] A female admonitor ; a monitress. JV. 
E. 1). 
admortization (ad-mor-ti-za'shon), n. Same 
as amorti:nti<i. 
admovet (ad-m6V), .-. t. [Earlier amove (see 
amove^), < L. admovere, move to, < ad, to, + 
movere, move : see move."] To move (to) ; bring 
(to): as, "admoved unto the light," Coverdale, 
tr. of Erasmus, 1 John ii. 8. 
admr. A contraction of administrator. 
admx. A contraction of administratrix. 
adnascence (ad-nas'ens), . [<adna#cent: see 
-ence.~\ Adhesion of parts to each other by the 
whole surface. Syd. Soc. Lex. 
adnascent (ad-nas'ent), a. [< L. adnascen(t-)s, 
ppr. of adnasci, usually agnasci, full form ad- 
(jnasci, grow to, < ad, to, + *gnasci, usually nasci, 
grow, be born: see agnate and nascent.'] Grow- 
ing to or on something else. 
Moss, which is an adnascent plant. 
Evelyn, Sylva, II. vii. 8. 
adnata (ad-na'ta), n. [ML. ; (1) fern, sing., (2) 
neut. pi. of L. adnatus: see adnate.] 1. sing. 
Same as tunica adnata (which see, under tunica). 
2. pi. In zool., tegumentary appendages, as 
hair or feathers, or other covering or growth 
superficially attached to an animal. 
adnate (ad'nat), a. [< L. adnatus, grown to, 
pp. of adnasci : see adnascent, and cf . agnate.] 
In physiol. and hot., congeni- 
tally attached or grown to- 
gether. See adnation. Also 
coadnate, coadunate, coadu- 
nated, and consolidated Ad- 
nate anther, an anther that is at- 
tached for its whole length to one 
side of its filament. 
adnation (ad-na'shon),. The 
state of being adnate; con- 
genital union of different or- 
gans by their surfaces. Specifically, in bot, the 
union or adhesion of different circles of inflorescence, as 
the calyx-tube to the ovary, in distinction from coalescence, 
which denotes the union of members of the same circle 
only. Also called consolidation. 
ad nauseam (ad na'se-am). [L. : ad, to ; nau- 
seam, ace. of nausea : see nausea.] Literally, 
to sickness ; to disgust ; to the extent of excit- 
ing disgust, especially the disgust which arises 
from satiety or wearisome repetition : as, state- 
ments or complaints repeated ad nauseam. 
adnerval (ad-ner'val), a. [< L. ad, to, + ner- 
vus, nerve.] Moving toward the nerve : a term 
applied to electrical currents passing in a mus- 
cular fiber toward the point of application of 
a nerve-fiber. 
adnexed (ad-neksf), a. [< L. adnexus, con- 
nected, + -erf 2 .] In i>ot., annexed or connected : 
applied to the gills in Agaricus when they reach 
to the stem but are not adnate to it. 
adnominal (ad-nom'i-nal), a. [< L. as if *ad- 
nominalis: see Odnotm.J In gram., belonging 
to or qualifying a noun ; adjectival. 
The true genitive is originally adnominal ; that is, its 
primary function is to limit the meaning of a substantive. 
Trans. Amer. Philol. Ass., XV. 7. 
adnomination (ad-nom-i-na'shon), . [< L. ad- 
nominatio(n-), agnominatio(n-), equiv. to Gr. 
irapovofiaaia, a pun ; (. ad, to, + nominare, name, 
< nomen (nomin-), a name.] A play upon words ; 
paronomasia. 
adnoun (ad 'noun), n. [< L. ad + noun. Cf. 
L. adnomen, usually agnomen, surname: see 
agnomen.'] In gram., an adjective or attributive 
word ; an adjunct to a noun ; specifically, ac- 
cording to some grammarians, an adjective 
used substantively, as the good, the true, and 
the beautiful. 
ado (a-do'), ., orig. inf. [< ME. ado, at do, 
North, dial, equiv. to E. to do, the prep, at, 
Scand. at, being the sign of the inf., like to in 
literary E. From the use of this inf. in phrases 
like much ado, little ado, more ado, i. e., much 
to do, etc., ado came to be regarded as a noun 
("ado, or grete bysynesse, sollicitudo," 
Prompt. Parv., p. 7), qualified by much, little, 
more, and hence later great, any, etc., as an 
adj. Cf. affair, < OF. a faire, to do, a-do.] 
I.t inf. 1. To do. 
I, Adnate Anther, 
z, Adnate Stipule. 
