adorable 
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manding adoration ; worthy of being adored ; 
worthy of divine honors. 
There are those who have treated the history of Abra- 
ham as an astronomical record, and have spoken of our adoratory ( a-dor'a-to-ri), n. ; pi. <tdi 
adorable Saviour as the sun in Aries. (-ri/.). [X ML. adorittoritim, explained 
J. II. Xemnan, Gram, of Assent, p. 364. v __ A ' L__j ^,_ ^^ fl,. TV.rlio,,,, 
2. Worthyof the utmost love or admiration: as, 
she is an adorable creature ; an adorable statue. 
When he [the pope] touched, as he did briefly, on the 
misfortunes of the church, an adorable flre came into his 
r. it. Aldrifh, J'onkapog to Pesth, p. 114. 
the fourth in St. Peter's, where the homage of the people 
is ivri-ived. 
loratories 
7 . t as "an 
underground place where the Indians sacrifice 
to their gods and departed ancestors," < L. ado- 
rare, adore : see adore* and oratory.'] A place 
of worship ; especially, a pagan temple or place 
T. ft 4MM, >>..nkapog to Pesth, p. 114. gU*%Jfr*J ^ 
adorableness ( a-dor'a-bl-nes), . The quality JJg^J r< jffe. aOawm. < OF. adourer, adorer 
of being adorable, or worthy of adoration. (earlier ME. aouren, < OF. aorer, aiirer, aorer) 
adorably (a-dor' a-bli), adv. In a manner wor- 
thy of adoration. 
adoral 
mouth, . , 
at or near the mouth ; being relatively towar |- -fa ' WOT ^ h ^ '. pay suprem e reverence to ; ad- 
dress in prayer and thanksgiving ; pay divine 
honors to ; honor as divine. 
Bishops and priests . . . bearing the host, which he 
publicly adored. Smollett, Hist. Eng., an. 1689. 
God shall be all in all. But, all ye gods, 
Adore him, who to compass all this dies ; 
Adore the Son, and honour him as me. 
Milton, P. L., iii. 342. 
2. To honor and regard in a very high degree ; 
adorsed 
ornate.] 1. To beautify or decorate ; increase 
or lend beauty or attractiveness to. as by dress 
or ornaments ; hence, in general, to render 
pleasing, or more pleasing or attractive; em- 
bellish. 
A bride ailnfiifth herself with her jewels. Isa. Ixi. 10. 
Virtue adorn'd his mind, triumph his brow. 
Ford, Fame's Memorial. 
He left the name at which the world grew pale, 
To point a moral, or adorn a tale. 
,]<>h imon. Van. of Hum. Wishes, 1. 222. 
2. To display the beauty or excellence of : as, 
to " adorn the doctrine of God," Tit. ii. 10. 
uiy ^-uur mod. F. adorer = rr. p. rg. oaorar = it. aaorare, 
f adoration. adore < L aaor are, speak to, address, beseech, 
1 (ad-o ral), a. [< L. ad, to, + M, t d wors hip, < ad, to, + ware, speak, 
Ii, + -al; after aboral.-] In zool., situated Py 10, a mj^ _ ^ Q J 
,.,..,,. Hm tnrnt.]i >wiTicr rpln,tivfilv toward 4 d.' v . . n _j 
the mouth : the opposite of aboral, 
They \llaltefi<e\ have a spiral adoral wreath of cilia for 
swimtiiins;. Stand. Nat. Ilist., I. 43. 
The object of the unique, one-sided arrangement of the 
adoral cilia is to direct food-particles to the mouth. 
Amer. Jour. ofSci., 3d ser., XXIX. 328. 
adorally (ad-6'ral-i), adv. Toward or in the 
direction of the mouth. 
adoration (ad-o-ra'shon), n. [< F. adoration, < 
L. adoratio(n-Y, < adorare : see adore 1 .] 1. The 
act of paying honors, as to a divine being ; wor- 
ship addressed to a deity; the supreme worship 
due to God alone. [Sometimes used specifically of 
words addressed to the Deity expressive of a sense of his 
infinite holiness and perfection.] In the Rom. Cath. Ch., 
adoration is applied to any one of three kinds of worship 
(though properly only to the first), namely : latria, or wor- 
. 
regard with the utmost esteem, love, and re- 
spect. 
The people appear adoring their prince. Toiler, No. 57. 
Thus, Madam, in the midst of crowds, you reign in soli- 
tude and are adored with the deepest veneration, that of 
silence. Dryden, Ded. of State of Innocence. 
When he who adores thee has left but the name 
Of his faults and his follies behind. Moore, Irish Mel. 
ship due to God alone; daKo.orthe secondary worship paid 
to angels and saints directly, or through the veneration of _ g Adore Worship, Reverence, Venerate, Revere, idol- 
ize deify, pay homage to. Adore and worship, when not ap- 
p]j e d exclusively to God or gods, are manifestly hyperboli- 
cal . ^ |j e wor shiped the ground she trod on. The others 
seem literal when applied to men ; places, or things. 
Adore and worship are applied primarily to acts and 
words of homage ; the others are not. None of them 
primarily includes the idea of intercessory prayer. Adore 
is the noblest of the words. To worship is to pay homage 
by outward forms or in customary places : " A man of 
Ethiopia . . . had come to Jerusalem for to worship. 
Acts viii. 27. In the Bible worship is used to express also 
extreme manifestations of respect paid to men: "As 
relics and images ; and hyperdulia, the higher worship 
paid to the Virgin Mary. The saints and the Virgin are 
adored as the friends of God, having intercessory power 
with him. 
Lowly reverent 
Towards either throne they bow, and to the ground 
With solemn adoration down they cast 
Their crowns. Milton, P. L., iii. 361. 
Knowledge is the flre of adoration, adoration is the gate 
of knowledge. Buthnell, Sermons for New Life, p. 163. 
They [Indians] perform their adorations and conjura- 
tions in the general language before spoken of, as the 
Catholics of all nations do their mass in the Latin. 
Beverley, Virginia, iii. If 31. 
2. Homage, or an act of homage, paid to one in 
high place or held in high esteem; profound 
reverence; the utmost respect, regard, or es- 
teem ; the highest degree of love, as of a man 
for a woman; heart's devotion. 
Oli. How does he love me ? 
Via. With adorations, with fertile tears, 
With groans that thunder love, with sighs of flre. 
Shak., T. N., i. 5. 
3. In art and arcltaiol. : (a) A representation of 
the adoration of the infant Jesus by the magi or 
the shepherds. (6) 
A representation 
of the worship of 
an ancient divin- 
ity, of the deified 
dead, or of a king 
or an emperor. 
In Latin, adoratio. 
Such representations 
are common in Greek 
vase-paintings and fu- 
neral sculptures, and 
in Roman reliefs and 
medals. The ancient 
adoration is usually 
characterized by the Ananci ,, n , Adora ,j n._coinof Ephe- 
gesture of raising the slls struck under Macrinus ; British Ma- 
right hand, particu- seum. (Size or the original.) 
larly with the thumb 
laid on the first finger ; though it is sometimes exhibited, 
chiefly in Oriental examples, in a prostrate position. 
4. A method of electing a pope. See extract. 
Peter was coming in, Cornelius met him, and fell down 
at his feet, and worshipped him." Acts x. 25. Reverence 
is upon a plane a little different from that of venerate, 
there being sometimes more fear suggested by the former 
and more sacredness by the latter. We should reverence 
position, ability, and character; we should venerate old 
age. Revere differs from reverence chiefly in suggesting 
rather less solemnity or awe. 
It [worship] is also an act of the will, whereby the soul 
adores and reverences his majesty. ... We must worship 
God understanding^ ; it is not else a reasonable service. 
Charnock, Attributes. 
Fall down and dy before her ; 
So dying live, and living do adore her. 
Spenser, Sonnets, xiv. 
I love Quaker ways and Quaker worship, I venerate the 
Quaker principles. Lamb, Elia. 
A foolish world is prone to laugh in public at what in 
private it reveres as one of the highest impulses of our na- 
ture ; namely, love. Longfellow, Hyperion, iii. 8. 
II. intrans. To perform an act of worship; 
be filled with adoration, reverence, or reveren- 
tial admiration. 
If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, 
how would men believe and adore I Emerson, Nature. 
Litanies, chanted day and night by adoring hearts. 
De Quincey, Secret Societies, i. 
adore 2 t (a-dor'), v. t. [A poet, perversion of 
adorn; perhaps only in the two passages quoted. ] 
To gild ; adorn. 
Like to the hore 
Congealed litle drops which doe the morne adore. 
Spenser, F. Q., IV. xi. 46. 
Armlets for great queens to adore. 
Fletcher and J/as8in<7er,Elder Brother, iv. 3. (jV. E. D.) 
adorementt (a-dor'ment), n. Adoration ; wor- 
ship. 
The third way of creating Popes is by Adoration, which 
is perform'd in this manner : That Cardinal who . . . 
desires to favour any other Cardinal . . . puts himself Adorement of cats, lizards, and beetles, 
before him in the Chappel, and makes him a low Rever- 
ence ; and when it falls out that two thirds of the Cardi- adorer (a-dor'er), n. 
nals do the same, the Pope is then understood to be created. 
0. II., tr. of Hist. Cardinals, III. 286. (tf. E. D.) 
_, 
Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err., i. 3. 
[< adorel + ..!.] One 
Adoration of the blessed sacrament, in the Bam. 
Cath. Ch., supreme worship (latria) paid to the eucharist. 
"Catholics pay to the eucharist . . . wherever it may be 
present that supreme worship which is due to God alone." 
Cath. Diet. (1884), p. 321. Religious communities of wo- adoring (a-dor'ing), n. 
men for the perjtetual adoration of the blessed sacrament 
have been founded at various times, the first by Anne 
of Austria, mother of Louis XIV. Adoration of the 
cross, in the Rom. Cath. Ch., that part of the service on 
Good Friday, following the prayers, in which the cross is 
exposed to view and "adored" by clergy and people. - 
who adores, (a) One who worships or honors as divine. 
(b) One who esteems or respects highly ; a lover ; an ad- 
mirer. 
I profess myself her adorer, not her friend. 
Shak., Cymbeline, i. 5. 
_ [Verbal n. of adore 1 .] 
An act"of adoration, or one of homage paid by 
a lover. 
And soft adoring* from their loves receive. 
Keats, Eve of St. Agnes, vi. 
Adoration of the host, in the celebration of the mass, adoringly (a-dor'ing-h') ad*. With adoration. 
the silent worship paid by the congregation, kneeling, at adorn (a-dorn ), v.J. [< MK adorrtcn, adottrwcn. 
the elevation of the host. See Ao. Adoration of the 
pope, a mark of homage paid to the pope immediately 
after his election, by kissing the golden cross on the sandal 
worn on his right foot. Cardinals also kiss his right hand, 
receiving in return the kiss of peace. The ceremony is 
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< OF. ddorner, adourner (earlier ME. aournen, 
<tontrn, < OF. aourner, aiirner, aorner), mod. F. 
ndnnicr = Sp. Pg. adornar = It. adornare, < L. 
adornare, < ad, to, + ornare, deck, beautify : see 
= Syn. Adorn, Ontrttiti'iit, Decorate, Embellish, Beautify, 
Deck, Array, grace, garnish, bedeck, set off. (See decorate.) 
The italicized words, except deck and array, are expressive 
of the attempt to add or increase beauty. Adorn has the 
most nobleness and spirituality ; It is the least external. 
Garments that adorn a woman seem a part of her person- 
ality and bring out her comeliness ; many virtues adorn his 
character ; the hall was adorned with the portraits of their 
ancestors. In these examples, no other word in the list 
is high enough or near enough to take the place of adorn. 
Ornameitt and decorate express the addition of something 
external, which still preserves its separate character and 
may perhaps be easily removed. Ornament, as kindred 
to adorn, is nearer to its meaning ; decorate expresses that 
which is more showy : ornamented with pictures ; the 
bare walls were decorated for the occasion with flags and 
wreaths. Both express the adding of beauty to that 
which was deficient in it before. Embellish implies pre- 
vious beauty, to which luster or brilliancy is added by 
something which perhaps becomes a part of the original : 
as. a book embellished with plates; a style embellished 
with figures of speech. The word is sometimes used of 
over-ornamentation. Beautify is the most direct in its 
expression of the general idea. Of the first five words, 
decorate is the least often used figuratively; decorated 
speech is speech in which the ornaments have no vital 
connection or harmony with the thought, so that they seem 
merely ornamental. Deck is to cover, and hence to cover 
in a way to please the eye : as, decked with flowers. Array 
is used especially of covering with splendid dress, the 
meaning being extended from persons to animals, etc. : 
the fields were arrayed in green. 
But that which fairest is, but few behold, 
Her mind adornd with vertues manifold. 
Spenser, Sonnets, xv. 
A whimsical fashion now prevailed among the ladies, 
of strangely ornamenting their faces with abundance of 
black patches cut into grotesque forms. 
J. D' Israeli, Curios, of Lit., I. 311. 
Ivy climbs the crumbling hall 
To decorate decay. Bailey, Festus. 
We are to dignify to each other the daily needs and of- 
fices of man's life, and embellish it by courage, wisdom, 
and unity. Emerson, Friendship. 
Nature has laid out all her art in beautifying the face. 
Addison, Spectator, No. 98. 
And with new life from sun and kindly showers, 
With beauty deck the meadow and the hill. 
Jones Very, Poems, p. 90. 
Even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one 
of these [lilies]. Mat. vi. 29. 
adornt (a-dorn'), n. [=It. Sp. adorno, orna- 
ment; from the verb.] Ornament. 
Her brest all naked, as nett yvory 
Without adorne of gold or silver bright. 
Spenser, F. Q., III. xii. 20. 
adornt (a-dom'), a. [< It. adorno, short form of 
adornato (= Sp. Pg. adornado), pp. of adornare, 
< L. adornare : see adornate, adorn, v.~\ Adorn- 
ed ; decorated. 
Made so adorn for thy delight. Milton, P. L., viii. 576. 
adornatet (a-dor'nat), r. t. [< L. adornatus, pp. 
of adornare : see adorn, v.~\ To adorn. 
To adornate gardens with the fairnesse thereof. 
Frampton, p. 33. 
adornationt (ad-6r-na'shon), n. [< L. as if 
*adornatio(n-}, < adornare, pp. adornatus: see 
adorn, *>.] Ornament. 
Memory is the soul's treasury, and thence she hath her 
garments of adornation. 
Wits' Commonwealth, p. 81. 
adorner (a-d6r'ner), n. One who adorns, 
adorning (a-dor'ning), n. Ornament; decora- 
tion. 
Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of 
plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on 
of apparel. 1 Pet. iii. 3. 
adorningly (a-dor'ning-li), adv. By adorning ; 
in an adorning manner. 
adornment (a-dorn'ment), . [< ME. adourn- 
ment, < OF. "adournement, adornement (earlier 
ME. aournement, aoruement, < OF. aournement), 
mod. F. adornement : see adorn and -ment.~\ An 
adorning; that which adorns ; ornament. 
I will write all down : 
Such and such pictures: There the window: Such 
The adornment of her bed. Shak., Cymbeline, ii. 2. 
adorsed (a-dorsf), p. a- [Also written od- 
dorsed, a restored form of adossed, 
addossed, < F. adosse, prj. of adosser, 
set back to back (< a, to, + dos, 
< L. dorsum, the back), + -fd 2 .] 
Placed back to back. In her., applied 
to any two animals, birds, fishes, or other 
