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To apply to another by words, with various forms of eon- 
(fraction. Sometimes without a prepolition. Sometimes 
with to. Sometimes with the reciprocal pronoun; as, he 
addrejfed himfelf to the general. Sometimes with the accu¬ 
sative of the matter of the addrefs, which may be nomi¬ 
native to the paflive : 
The prince himfelf, with awful dread poffefs’d, 
His vows to great Apollo thus addrefdd. Drydcn. 
To addrefs, in law, is to apply to the king in form.— 
The reprefentatives of the nation in parliament, and the 
privy-council, addrejfed the king to have it recalled. Swift. 
Address, f . \_addrejfe , Fr.] Verbal application to any 
one, by way of perfualion; petition; courtfliip: 
Henry, in knots involving Emma’s name, 
Had half confefs’d and half conceal’d his flame 
Upon this tree; and as the tender mark 
Grew with the year, and widen’d with the bark, 
Venus had heard the virgin’s foft addrefs , 
That, as the wound, the paflion might increafe. Prior. 
Manner of addrefling another; as, we fay, a man of an hap¬ 
py or a pleafing addrefs-, a man of an awkzuard addrejs. Skill, 
dexterity. Manner of directing a letter; a fenfe chiefly 
mercantile. 
ADDRESSER, f. The perfon that addrefles or peti¬ 
tions. 
ADDUCENT, adj. \_adduccns, Lat.] A word applied to 
thofe nutfcles that bring forward, dole, or draw together, 
the parts of the body to which they are annexed. 
To ADDULCE, v.a. [ addoucir, Fr. dulcis, Lat.] To 
fweeten : a word not now in life.—Thus did the French 
embafladors, with great (hew' of their king’s affedion, and 
many fugared words, feek to addulcc all matters between 
the two kings. Bacon. 
ADEA, a province of Upper Ethiopia, bordering on 
the Red Sea, once fubjed to Abyffinia, but now princi¬ 
pally to the Turks and Portuguefe. 
ADEB, /. in commerce, the name of a large Egyptian 
weight, ufed principally for rice, and confiding of 210 
okes, each of three rotolos, a weight of about two drachms 
lefs than an Englifh pound. But this is no certain weight, 
for at Rofetto the adeb is only 150 okes. 
ADEBETH, an iiland in the Nile, in Lower Egypt, 
containing many villages and (Lately palaces, which yet 
can hardly be feen from the river, on account of the lux¬ 
uriant foliage of the furrounding lofty trees. 
ADECTOS,/! [from «, priv. and to bite.] An 
epithet given to medicines that relieve from the biting 
fenfe of pain, by removing the uneadnefs caufed by (ti- 
mulants ; whence Celfus calls them lenia. 
ADEL, a kingdom on the eafrern coaft of Africa, which 
reaches as far as the (traits of Babelmandel, wl)ich unite 
the Red Sea to the fea of Arabia. This country produ¬ 
ces corn, and feeds a great number of cattle. The inha¬ 
bitants carry on a trade in gold, iilver, ivory, oil, frankin- 
cenfe, a fort of pepper, and other merchandifes of Ara¬ 
bia and the Indies. 
ADELI A,f\a,$ry,o<;, incertus, obfeurus, obfeure.] In bo¬ 
tany, a genus of the dioecia monadelphia clafs, ranking in 
the natural order of tricoccce. The generic characters 
are—I. Male, Calyx: perianthium one-leafed, three- 
parted; leaflets oblong, curved back. Stamina: fila¬ 
ments many, capillary, the length of the calyx, united in¬ 
to a cylinder at the bafe; antherse roundifh. II. Female. 
Calyx: perianthium five-parted; parts oblong, perma¬ 
nent. Piftitlum: germ rpundifh ; ftyles three, very (hort, 
divaricate; ftigmas torn. Pericarpium: capfule trieoc- 
cotis, roundifit, three-celled. Seeds: folitary, roundifh. 
—EJfentialCharacter. Male. Calyx, three-parted; (lami¬ 
na many, united at the bafe. Female. Calyx, five-part¬ 
ed; (tyles three, torn; capfule tricoccous. 
Species. 1. Adelia bernardia, or viilous-leaved bernar- 
dia: leaves oblong, tomentofe, ferrate. Thefe (limbs 
grow naturally in the Bland of Jamaica, and are near of 
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kin to the croton. Dr. Houftoun confiituted a genus of the 
two firft by the title of bernardia, in honour of Dr. Ber¬ 
nard de Juflieu. 
2. Adelia ricinella, or fmooth-leaved bernardia: leaves 
obovate, quite entire. Grows to the height of eight or 
ten feet, and has (lender flower-ftalks. 
3. Adeliaacidoton, or box-leaved adelia: branches flex- 
uofe, fpines gemmaceous. This feldom rifes above four 
feet in height. The branches very (lender and flexile; the 
leaves fmall, delicate, crowded, and aifociated with one or 
two flowers. It has much the appearance of a young 
ebony. It flowers in June with us; but, in Jamaica, ear¬ 
ly in April and May. 
Propagation and Culture. Thefe plants are propagated 
by feeds, when they can be procured from the countries 
where they grow; for they do not produce good feeds in 
England. They mult be fown upon a hot-bed in the 
fpring, and, when the plants are fit to remove, they fnould 
be each tranfplanted into a feparate fmall pot, filled with 
light earth, and plunged into a hot-bed of tan, treating 
them in the fame manner as is hereafter direfted for Cro¬ 
ton. In the autumn the pots fheuld be plunged into the 
tan-bed in the (love, where, if they are kept in a temperate 
heat in winter, and not over-watered during that feafon, 
the plants may be preferved, and the fummer following will 
produce flowers ; but as thefe have little beauty, the plants 
are feldom propagated except in botanic gardens. 
ADELING,/! [from cede!, Sax. iiluftrious. ] A word 
of honour among the Angles, properly appertaining to the 
king’s children. Ring Edward the Confeflbr, being with¬ 
out iffue, and intending to make Edgar his heir, called 
him adding. 
ADELME, or Aldhelm, fon to Kenred, nephew to 
Ina king of the Weft Saxons; after having been educated 
abroad, was abbot of Malmlbury thirty years. He was 
the firft Engliftiman who wrote in Latin, the firft who 
brought poetry into England, and the firft biftiop of Sher- 
bourne. He lived in great efteem till his death, which 
happened in 709. He was canonized, and many miracles 
were told of him. He is mentioned with great honour 
by Camden and Bayle, and his life was written by Wil¬ 
liam of Malmlbury. 
ADELPH 1 AN’i, f. in church-hiftory, a fedt of ancient 
heretics, who fafted always on Sundays. 
ADELPHIXIS,yi the analogy, relation, or fimilitude, 
of one thing with another; or the communication, con- 
lent, or fympathy, of a part with another. 
ADELSCALC,/ in ancient cuftoms, denotes a fervant 
of the king. The word is alfo written adclj'calche and adel- 
fcalcus. It is compounded of the German and, or edel, 
“noble,” and fcalc, “ fervant.” Among the Bavarians, 
adelfcalcs appear to have been the fame with royal thanes 
among the Saxons, and thofe called minijlri regis in anci¬ 
ent charters. 
ADEMONIA,/! [of «, priv. and a genius or 
divinity or fortune.] Hippocrates ufes this word for un- 
eafinefs, reftleflnefs, or anxiety, felt in acute difeafes, and 
fome hyfteric fits. 
ADEMPTION,in law, implies the taking away of 
a legacy, and arifes from a fuppofed alteration of the tef- 
tator’s intention; as where a man bequeaths money due 
upon a certain bond, and afterwards calls it in ; or be¬ 
queaths to the legatee fuch a horfe, and afterwards fells the 
horfe. 
ADEN, formerly a rich and confiderable town of Ara¬ 
bia the Happy. It is feated by the fea-fide, a little eaft- 
ward of the (traits of Babelmandel. 
ADENANTHERA,/. [a^ivo?, giandulous, and 
an anther.] In botany, a genus of the decandria monogv- 
nia clafs, of the natural order of iomentaccae. The ge¬ 
neric characters are~—Calyx : perianthium one leafed, five¬ 
toothed, very lmall. Corolla: five-petalled, bell-ftiaped; 
petals lanceolate, feflile, convex inwards, concave under¬ 
neath. Stamina : filaments fubulate, erect, a little fhorter 
than the corolla; antherie roundiih, incumbent, bearing a 
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