ADO 
ADMONISHMENT, f Admonition; the notice by 
which one is put in mind of faults or duties: a word not 
often ufed: 
To th’ infinitely Good we owe 
Immortal thanks, and his admonijhment 
Receive, with folemn purpofe to obferve 
Immutably his fovereign will, the end 
Of what we are. Milton, 
ADMONITIO FUSTIUM,/ among the Romans, a 
military punilhment, notunlike our whipping, only it was 
performed with vine-branches. 
ADMONITION, f [ admonitio , Lat.] The hint of a 
fault or duty ; counfel; gentle reproof. 
ADMONITIONER,_/i A liberal difpenfer of admo¬ 
nition; a general advifer. A ludicrous term. 
ADMONITORY, adj. [admonitorius , Lat.] That which 
admonifiies.—The fentence of reafon is either mandatory, 
diewing what mult be done; or elfe permifiive, declaring 
only what may be done; or thirdly, admonitory , opening 
what is mod: convenient for us to do, Hooker. 
ADMORTIZATION, f. in the feudal cuftoms, the 
reduction of the property of lands or tenements to mort¬ 
main. See Mortmain. 
To ADMOVE, v. a. [admoveo, Lat. ] To bring one thing 
to another. A word not in ufe.—If, unto the powder of 
loadftone or iron, we admove the north pole of the load- 
done, the powders, or fmall divifions, will ereCt and con¬ 
form themlelves thereto. Brown. 
ADMURMURATION,/! \admurmuro, Lat.] The aft 
of murmuring, or whifpering to another. 
ADNATA, or Agnata, f. [from adnafcor , Lat. to 
grow to. ] The outer coat of the eye; called alfo circumca- 
lualis, circumojfalis, albuginea , epipephycos. It is that which 
makes the white of the eye, called alfo exclopion, and is 
thus formed: five of the mufcles which move the eye 
take their origin from the bottom of the orbit, and the 
fixth arifes from the edge of it; they are all inferted by a 
tendinous expanlion into the anterior part of the tunica 
fclerotica; which expanfion gives the whitenefs peculiar 
to the fore part of the eye. It lies between the fclerotica 
and conjunctiva. It is extremely fenlible, and abounds 
with blood-velfels, which are very vilible in inflammations. 
It covers fo much of the eye as is called the white; and, 
being reflected all round, it lines the two eye-lids, and 
thus hinders any thing from falling into the orbit. Where 
it covers the eye-lids, it is vafcularand papillous. In paf- 
iing over the orbit, it does not end at the cornea, but be¬ 
comes tranfparent there, and is of different textures in 
different parts where it is fpread. The fclerotica appears 
under it. When a foreign body gets between the eye and 
the eve-lid, it is hooked in the villi: the bed way to extri¬ 
cate it is, to invert the eye-lid, and to introduce a probe 
armed with lint and dipped in oil, which will extraft it. 
The inverted eye-lid proceeds from this coat. Though 
it is exaCtly commenfurate to the orbit in health, yet in 
morbid habits, when it is inflamed, it is thickened and 
puffed out. if it does not yield to general remedies, as 
bleeding, purging, & c. fcarify it; and, if this alfo fails, cut 
off the redundant part. 
Adnata, is alfo ufed for any hair, wool, or the like, 
which grows upon animals or vegetables. 
Adnata, or Adnascentia, among gardeners, denote 
thofe off-lets, which, by a new germination under the 
earth, proceed from the lily, narciffus, hyacinth, and other 
flowers, and afterwards grow to true roots. The French 
call them cayeux, “ dalles.’* 
ADO, / [from the verb to do, with a before it, as the 
French affaire from a and faire.~\ Trouble, difficulty. 
Budle; tumult; bufinefs; fometimes with the particle 
aboict. It has a light and ludicrous fenfe, implying more 
tumult and fliow of bufinefs than the affair is worth : in 
this fenfe it is of late generally ufed.—Come, fays Pufs, 
without any more ado, ’tis time to go to breakfaft; cats 
don’t live upon dialogues. VFJt range, 
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ADO i2i 
ADOLESCENCE, or Adolescency, f. [ adolefcentia , 
Lat.] The age fucceeding childhood, and fucceeded by 
puberty; more largely that part of life in which the bo¬ 
dy has not yet reached its full perfection. The date of 
adolefcence lads fo long as the fibres continue to grow, 
either in magnitude or firmnefs. Adolefcence is common¬ 
ly computed to be between fifteen and twenty-five, or even 
thirty, years of age; though in different conditutions its 
terms are very different. The Romans udially -reckoned 
it from twelve to twenty-five in boys; and to twenty-one 
in girls, &c. And yet, among their writers, juvenis and 
adolefcens are frequently ufed indifferently for any perfon 
under forty-five years. 
ADOLESCENS,/! [Lat.] The iron bars that fupport 
the fire in a grate or furnace.—Paracelfus would make a 
man without a woman, and digeded femen mafculinum in 
a glafs placed in a dung-hill, and produced fomething 
like a man, according to the affertion of fome of his dif- 
ciples; this was called homunculus Paracelfi ; but would 
be as properly named adolefcens. 
ADOLLAM, or Odollam, anciently a town in the 
tribe of Judah, to the ead of Eleutheropolis. David is 
faid to have hid himfelf in a cave near this town. 
ADON, a populous village in the province of Stuhl- 
Weiffemberg, belonging to Hungary. It lies in a fruitful 
country, towards the Danube. Lat. 47. 30. Ion. 19. 20. 
ADONAI, f. [Heb.] One of the names of the Supreme 
Being, in the Scriptures. The proper meaning of the 
word is my lords, in the plural number; as adoni is my lord , 
in the Angular. The Jews, who either out of refpeCf, or 
fuperdition, do not pronounce the name of Jehovah , read 
Adonai in the room of it, as often as they meet with Je¬ 
hovah in the Hebrew' text. But the ancient Jews were 
not fo fcrupulous; nor is there any law'which forbids 
them to pronounce the name of God. 
ADONI A,/i in antiquity, folemn feafis in honour of 
Venus, and in memory of her beloved Adonis. The 
Adonia were obferved with great folemnity by mod na¬ 
tions; Greeks, Phoenicians, Lycians, Syrians, Egyptians, 
&c. From Syria, they are fuppofed to have paffed into 
India. The prophet Ezekiel, viii. 14. is underdood to 
fpeak of them. They were dill obferved at Alexandria 
in the time of St. Cyril; and at Antioch in that of Julian 
the Apodate, who happened to enter that city during the 
folemnity, which was taken for an ill omen. The Adonia 
laded two days: on the fird of which certain images of 
Venus and Adonis were carried, with all the pomp and 
ceremonies praCtifed at funerals: the women wept, tore 
their hair, beat their breads, &c. imitating the cries and 
lamentations of Venus for the death of her paramour. The 
Syrians were not contented with weeping, but gave them- 
felves difeipline, fliaved their heads, &c. 
ADONIDES,/! in botany, a name given to botanifts 
who deferibed or rrtade catalogues of plants cultivated in 
any particular place. 
ADONIS, fon to Cinyras king of Cyprus, the darling 
of the goddefs Venus : being killed by a wild boar in the 
Idalian w'oods, lie was turned into a flower of a blood- 
colour, which dill bears his name. Venus was incon* 
folable; and no grief was ever more celebrated than this, 
mod nations, as dated above, having perpetuated the me¬ 
mory of it by a train of anniverfary ceremonies. Among 
Shakefpeare’s Poems, is a long one on the fubjeCt of Ve¬ 
nus’s adedtion for Adonis. 
Adonis, or Adonius, a river of Phoenicia, rifing in 
mount Lebanon," and falling into the fea, after a north- 
wed courfe, at Bybulus; famous, in fable, as a beautiful 
fliepherd-youth; fon of Cinyras, king of the Cyprians, - 
loved by Venus, flain by a boar, and turned into a river. 
Adonis,/; [fo named from Adonis, the favourite of 
Venus.] In botany, a genus of the polyandria polyginia 
clafs, ranking in the natural order of multifiliqua;. The 
generic characters are—Calyx: perianthium five-leaved; 
leaflets obtufe, concave, a little coloured, deciduous. Co¬ 
rolla: petals five to fifteen, oblong, obtufe, fhining. Sta- 
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