•124 ADO 
ing in England, in the ceremony of killing the king's or 
.queen’s hand, and in iervingthem at table, both being per¬ 
formed kneeling. 
Adoration isalfo ufed, in the court of Rome, for the 
ceremony of killing the pope’s feet. The introdu&ion of 
adoration among the Romans is afcribed to the low flatte¬ 
ry of Vitellius, who, upon the return of C. Ciefar from 
Syria, would not approach him otherwife than with his 
head covered, turning himfelf round, and then falling on 
his face. Heliogabulus reftored the practice, and Alex¬ 
ander Severus again prohibited it. Diocleflan redemand¬ 
ed it; and it was, in fome meafure, continued under the 
fucceeding princes, even after the eftablifliment of Chrif- 
tianity, as Conflantine, Conftantius, &c. It is particu¬ 
larly faid of Diocleflan, that he had gems faftened to his 
ihoes, that divine honours might be more willingly paid 
him, by killing, his feet. The like ufage was afterwards 
adopted by tl e popes, and isobfervedto this day. Thefe 
prelates, finding a vehement difpolition in the people to 
fall down before them and klfs their feet, procured cruci¬ 
fixes to be fattened on their flippers ; by which ftrata- 
gem, the adoration intended for the pope’s perfon is fup- 
pofed to be transferred to Chrift. Divers adds of this ado¬ 
ration we find offered even by princes to'thepope. 
Barbarous AdotcATIOn is a term ufed, in the laws of 
king Canute, for that performed after the manner of the 
heathens whoadored idols. The Romifli church ischarg- 
ed with the adoration of faints, martyrs, images, cruci¬ 
fixes, relics, the virgin, and the hoft; all which by Pro- 
teftants are generally aggravated into idolatry, on a fup- 
pofition, that the honour thus paid to them is abfolute and 
fupreme, called byway of diftinCtion l.atria , which is due 
only to God. Roman Catholics, on the contrary, explain 
them, as only a relative or fubordinate worfliip, called 
Dulia and Hyperdulia, which terminates ultimately in God 
alone. 
To ADORE, v. a. [adoro, Lat.] To worfliip with ex¬ 
ternal homage: to pay divine honours. It is ufed, popu¬ 
larly, to denote a high degree of reverence or regard ; to 
reverence ; to honour ; to love.—The people appear ador¬ 
ing their prince, and their prince adoring God. Taller. 
ADOREA, in Roman antiquity, a word ufed in differ¬ 
ent fenfes; fometimes for all manner of grain, fometimes 
for a kind of cakes made of fine flour, and offered in fa- 
crifice ; and finally for a dole or diftribution of corn, as a 
reward for fome fervice ; whence by metonymy it is put 
for praife or rewards in general. 
ADOREMENT,/". Adoration; worfliip; a word fcarce- 
ly ufed. 
ADORER, /. He that adores; a worfliipper ; a term 
generally ufed in a low fenfe ; as, by lovers, or admirers. 
A worfliipper ; in a ferious fenfe.—He was fo fevere an 
adorer of truth, as not to diffemble ; or to fuffer any man 
to think that he would do any thing, which he refolved 
not to do. Clarendon. 
To ADORN, v. a. [adorno, Lat.] To drefs; to deck 
the perfon with ornaments.-—He hath clothed me with the 
garments of falvation, he hath covered me with the robe 
of righteoufnefs, as a bridegroom decketh himfelf with 
ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herfelf with her jew¬ 
els. I/aiak, Ixi. 10.—To fet out any place or thing with 
decorations. To embellifn with oratory or elegance of 
language: ■ 
Thoufands there are in darker fame that dwell, 
Whofe names fome nobler poem (hall adorn ; 
For, tho’ unknown to me, they fure fought well. Dryden. 
Adorn, adj. Adorned; decorated: a word peculiar to 
Mihon : 
She’ll to realities yield all her fliows, 
Made fo adorn for thy delight the more. Milton. 
ADORNMENT, f. Ornament ; embellifhment ; ele¬ 
gance : not now in ufe. 
ADR. 
ADOSCUEATION, a term ufed by Dr. Greiv, to im¬ 
ply a kind of impregnation, without intromifllon ; and in 
this manner he fuppofes the impregnation of plants is ef¬ 
fected by the falling of the farina foecuhdans on the pifdl. 
ADOSEE, in heraldry, lignifies two figures or bearings 
being placed back to back. 
ADOUR, the name of a river of France, which rifes 
in the mountains of Bigorre, and, running N. by Tarbes 
through Gafconv, afterwards turns E. and, palling by Dax, 
falls into the bay of Bifcay, below Bayonne. 
ADOWN, adv. Down ; on the ground. 
Adown , prep. Down; towards the ground; from a 
higher fituation towards a lower : 
In this remembrance Emily ere day 
Arofe, and drefs’d herfelf in rich array; 
Frefli as the month, and as the morning fair, 
Adown her flioulders fell her length of hair. Dryden. 
ADOXA, [a and praife ; an ignoble plant, one 
of no fliow.] In botany, a genus of the odtandria tetragy- 
nia clafs, ranking in the natural order of fucculentaj. 
The generic characters are—Calyx: perianth inferior, bi¬ 
fid, flat, permanent. Corolla: monopetalous, flat, qua- 
drifid ; clefts ovate, acute, longer than the calyx. Sta¬ 
mina : filaments Tubulate, the length of the calyx. An- 
therae roundifli. Piftillum: germ below the receptacle 
of the corolla. Styles Ample, ereCt, the length of the 
ftamens, permanent. Stigmas Ample. Pericarpium: a 
globofe berry, between the calyx and corolla, the calyx 
being united below with the berry, umbilicate, four-cell¬ 
ed. Seeds: folitary, compreffed.- EJfential CharaEter, 
Calyx, bifid, inferior; corolla, four or five cleft, fupe- 
rior ; berry, four or five celled, united with the calyx. 
There is but one fpecies, which is called adoxa mofeha- 
tellina, or bulbous fumitory, hollow-i*oot, tuberous mof- 
chatel. This plant grows naturally in fliady places, and 
woods ; as in Hampfteadand Charlton woods, &c. The 
flowers appear at the end of March or the beginning of 
April, and the berries ripen in May, foon after which the 
leaves decay. Thefe and the flowers fmell like mufk, 
from whence it has by fome been called mulk crowfoot/ 
Propagation and Culture, The roots may be tranfplanted 
any time after the leaves are decayed, till winter. They 
mufl be planted in the fliade, under fhrubs ; for, if they 
are expofed to the open fun, they will not thrive. 
AD PONDUS OMNIUM, among phyficians, an ab¬ 
breviation in their preferiptions, fignifying that the laff 
mentioned ingredient is to weigh as much as all the reft 
together. 
Ad Quod Damnum is a writ, iffuingout of and re¬ 
turnable into the chancery, direCted to the fheriff, to en¬ 
quire by a jury, of what damage it will be to the king, or 
any other, to grant a liberty, fair, market, highway, or the 
like. And, according to the fheriff’s return thereof, the 
grant is Allied or with-held. 
ADRACHNE, in botany, a fpecies of the ftrawberry- 
tree. See Arbutus. 
ADRAMMELECH, one of the gods of the inhabi¬ 
tants of Sepharvaim, who were fettled in the country of 
Samaria, in the room of thofe Ifraelites who were carri¬ 
ed beyond the Euphrates. The Sepharvaites made their 
children pafs through the fire, in honour of this idol and 
another called Anamelech. It is fuppofed, that Adram- 
melech meant the fun, and Anamelech the moon : thefirft 
lignifies the magnificent king ; the fecond the gentle king. 
ADRAMYTTIUM, now An dr amili ; a town ofMyfla 
Major, at the foot of mount Ida, an Athenian colony, 
with a harbour and dock near the Caicus. Adramyttenus 
the epithet; as, Adramyttenus Sinus, a part of the Egean 
Sea, on the coaft of Myiia; Adramyttenus Convenus, fefl- 
fions or affizes. The eighth in order of the nine Conventus 
Juridici of the province of Afia. 
ADRANA, a river of Germany, now the Eder, rifing 
on the borders^ of the county of Naffau, to the north-caft 
of 
