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to time, out of a fantaftical levity that holds us off and on,’ 
betwixt hawk and buzzard. L’EJlrange. 
ADIPOUS, adj. [adipofus, Lat.] Fat. It is alfo a term 
ufed by anatomifts for any cell, membrane, See. that is re¬ 
markable for its fatnefs. 
ADIRBEITSTAN, a province of Perfia, in Alia, and 
part of the ancient Media. It is bounded on the north 
bv the province of Shirvan, on the fouth by Irac-Agemi 
and Curdiftan, on the eaft by Gilan and the Cafpian Sea, 
and on the wed by Turcomania. 
ADIT,/. [ aditus , Lat.] A palfage for the conveyance 
of water under ground; a palfage under ground in gene¬ 
ral ; a term among the minemen. 
Adit of a Mine, the hole, or aperture, whereby it is 
entered and dug, and by which the water and ores are 
carried away. The term amounts to the fame with cuni- 
cu/us or drift , and is diftinguiihed from air-Jhaft. The 
adit is ufually made on the fide of a hill, towards the bot¬ 
tom thereof, about four, five, or fix, feet high, and eight 
wide, in form of an arch ; fometimes cut in the rock, and 
fometimes fupported with timber, fo conducted as that the 
foie or bottom of the adit may anfwer to the bottom of the 
lhaft, only fomewhat lower, that the water may have a 
iufficient current to pal's away without the ufe of the 
pump. Damps and the impurity of the air are great im¬ 
pediments againft driving adits above twenty or thirty fa¬ 
thoms, by reafon of the necetlity, in this cafe, of letting 
down air-lhafts from the day to meet the adit, which are 
often very expenlive, both on account of the great depth 
of mines, and the hardnefs of the mineral ftrata to be cut 
through. The bell: remedy againft this is that pradtifed 
in the coal-mines near Liege, where they work their adits 
without air-lhafts: the manner of which is deferibed by 
Sir Robert Moray. Vid. Phil. Tranf. No. 5. 
Adit of a Mine is fometimes ufed for the air-lhaft 
itfelf, being a hole driven perpendicularly from the fur- 
face of the earth into fome part of a mine, to give entrance 
to the air. To draw off Handing water in winter, in deep 
mines, they drive up an adit or air-lhaft, upon which the 
air difengages itfelf from the water, when it begins to run 
with fuch violence as produces a noife equal to the burft- 
ing of a cannon, dalhes every thing in the way againlt the 
tides of the mine, and loofens the very rocks at a diltance. 
Ibid, No. 26. 
ADITION,/! [from adeo, aditum, Lat. ] The adt of go¬ 
ing to one another. ' ■ 
To ADJUDGE, v. a. \_ddjudico, Lat.] To give the thing 
controverted to one of the parties by a judicial fentence; 
with the partiqle to before the perfon: 
The great competitors for Rome, 
Caefar and Pompey, on Pharfalian plains, 
Where Item Bellona, with one final ftroke, 
Adjudg'd the empire of this globe to one. Phillips. 
To fentence, or condemn to a punilhmenf; with to before 
the thing. Simply, to judge; to decree; to determine.— 
He adjudged him unworthy of his friendfhip, purpofing 
lharply to revenge the wrong he had received. Knolles. 
To ADJUDICATE, v. a. [adjudico, Lat.] To adjudge; 
to give fomething controverted to one of the litigants, by 
a fentence or decifion. 
ADJUDICATION,/. [ adjudicatio , Lat.] The adt of 
judging, or of granting fomething to a litigant, by a judi¬ 
cial fentence. 
Adjudication, in the Scots law, the name of that ac¬ 
tion by which a creditor attaches the heritable efiate of 
his debtor, or his debtor’s heir, in order to appropriate it 
to himlelf, either in payment or fecurity of his debt; or 
that adfion by which the holder of an heritable right, la¬ 
bouring under any defect in point of form, may lupply 
that defect. 
To ADJUGATE, v. a. \_adjugo, Lat.] To yoke to; to 
join to another by a yoke. 
ADJUMENT,/. [ adjumentum , Lat.] Help; fupport. 
ADJUNCT,/. [adjun&um t -L at.] Something adherent 
ADJ 
or united to another, though not elfentially part of it. 
Thus water abforbed by a cloth or a fponge, is an adjuntt, 
but no necelfary part of either of thefe fubltances. 
Adjunct, in metaphyfics, fome quality belonging to 
either the body or mind, whether natural or acquired. 
Thus thinking is an adjundt of the mind, and growth an' 
adjundt of the body. 
Adjunct, in rnufic, a word which is employed to de¬ 
nominate the connection or relation between the principal' 
mode and the modes of its two-fifths, which, from the in¬ 
tervals that conliitute the relation between them and it, 
are called its adjundts. 
Adjunct is alfo ufed to fignify a colleague, or fome 
perfon affociated with another as an affiftanf, 
Adjunct Gods, or Adjuncts of the Gods, among 
the Romans, were a kind of inferior deities, added as affift- 
ants to the principal ones, to eafe them in their functions. 
Thus, to Mars was adjoined Bellona and Nemefis; to Nep¬ 
tune, Salacia; to Vulcan, the Cabiri; to the Good Genius, 
the Lares; to the Evil, the Lemures, &c. 
ADJUNCTION,/ [ adjundlio , Lat.] The adt of adjoin¬ 
ing, or coupling together. The thing joined. 
ADJUNCTIVE, f \_adjunclivus , Lat.] He that joins. 
That which is joined. 
ADJUNCTS,/ in rhetoric and grammar, fignify cer¬ 
tain words or things added to others, to amplify or aug¬ 
ment the force of the difeourfe. 
ADJURATION,/ [ adjuratio , Lat.] The adt of ad¬ 
juring, orpropofing an oath to another. The form of oath 
propofcd to another.—When thefe learned men faw fick- 
nefs and frenzy cured, the dead raifed, the oracles put to 
filence, the daemons and evil fpirits forced to confefs them- 
felves no gods, by perfons who only made ufe of prayer 
and adjurations in the name of their crucified Saviour; how 
could they doubt of their Saviour’s power on the like oc- 
calions ? Addifon. 
To ADJURE, v. a. [ adjuro , Lat.] To impofe an oath 
upon another, preferibing the form in which he lhall 
fwear. 
To ADJUST, v. a. [ ajujler , Fr.] To regulate; to put 
in order; to fettle in the right form. To reduce to the 
true ftate or ftandard; to make accurate. To make con¬ 
formable. It requires the particle to before the thing to 
which the conformity is made.—As to the accomplifh- 
ment of this remarkable prophecy, whoever reads the ac¬ 
count given by Jofephus, without knowing his charadter, 
and compares it with what our Saviour foretold, would 
think the hil’torian had been a Chriftian, and that he had 
nothing elfe in view, but to adjujl the event to the predic¬ 
tion. Addifon. 
ADJUSTMENT,/ [adjujlement, Fr.] Regulation; the 
adt of putting in method; fettlement. The Hate of be*, 
ing put in method, or regulated.—It is a vulgar idea we 
have of a watch or clock, when we conceive of it as an 
inftrument made to Ihevv the hour: but it is a learned idea 
which the watchmaker has of it, who knows all the fe- 
veral parts of it, together with the various connections 
and adjujlments of each part. Watts. 
ADJUTANT, f. in the military art, is an officer whofe 
bufinefs it is to affilt the major. Each battalion of foot 
and regiment of horfe has an adjutant, who receives tire 
orders every night from the brigade-major; which, after 
carrying them to the colonel, he delivers out to the fer- 
jeants. When detachments are to be made, he gives the 
number to be furnilhed by each company or troop, and 
affigns the hour and place of rendezvous. He alfo places 
tire guards; receives and dilfributes the ammunition to 
the companies, &c. and, by the major’s orders, regulates 
the prices of bread, beer, and other provilions. The 
word is fometimes ufed by the French for an aid-du-camp. 
Adjutants-general, among the Jefuits, a feledh 
number of fathers, who relided with the general of the 
order, each of whom had a province or country affigned 
him, as England, Holland, &c. and their bufinefs was to 
inform the father-general of ftate-occurrences in fuch 
countries* 
