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fon. The word is compounded of ad, “to,” and rogare, 
“ t'dafkon account of a queftion put in the ceremony of 
it. Whether'the adopter would take fuch a perfon for his 
fon? and'another to the adaptive, Whether he confected 
to become fuch a peiTon’s fon ? 
ADROIT, adj. [Fr.] Dextrous ; aftive-; fkilful. 
ADROITNESS,/. Dexterity; readinefs; activity. Nei¬ 
ther this word, nor adroit , feem yet completely naturalized. 
ADROP,/. A chemical term denoting the body itfelf, 
or lead, from whence mercury ought to be taken for the 
philofophers (lone; in which fignification it is taken alfo 
by'Ripley. Or it denotes the philofophers (tone itfelf. It 
is alfo called faturnus, i. e. antimony, or plumbum. 
ADRY,' adv. [from a and dry. ] Athirft; thirfty; in 
want of drink. 
ADSCITITIOUS, adj. \_adfcititius, Lat.] That which 
is taken in to complete fomething elfe, though originally 
extrinfic; fupplemental; additional. 
ADSIDELLA,/ in antiquity, the table at which the 
flamens fat during the [acrifices. 
ADSTRICTION,/ [ adfriSio , Lat.] The aft of bind¬ 
ing together; and applied, generally, to medicaments and 
applications which have the power of making the part 
contract, 
ADUACA, or Atuaca, anciently a large and famous 
City of 'the Tungri; how a fmall and inconfiderable vil¬ 
lage, called Tongeren, in the bifhopric of Liege, in the 
territory of Hafpengow, on the rivulet Jecker, that tails 
into t the’MaOfe. Lat. 50. 54. Ion. 5. 52. E. 
To ADVANCE, v. a. [ avancer, Fr.] To bring forward, 
in the local fenfe. To raife tb preferment; to aggran¬ 
dize. To improve.—What laws can be advifed more pro¬ 
per and effectual to advance the nature of man to its high- 
eft perfection, than thefe precepts of Chriftianity ? Tillot- 
fon. —To heighten; to grace ; to give luftre to. To for¬ 
ward ; to accelerate. To propofe ; to offer to the pub¬ 
lic; to bring to view or notice: 
Some ne’er advance a judgment of their own, 
But catch’the fpreading notion of the town. Pope. 
To Advance, v. n. To come forward. To make im¬ 
provement.—’They who would advance in knowledge, and 
not deceive and fwell themfelves with a little articulated 
dir, fhould not take words for real entities in nature, .till 
they can frame clear and diftinft ideas of thofe entities. 
Locke. 
Advance,/. Theaftof coming forward. Atenden- 
cy to come forward to nieet a lover; an aft of invitation. 
Gradual progreflion; rife from one point to another. Im¬ 
provement; progrefs towards perfection.—Our Saviour 
raifed the ruler’s daughter, the widow’s fon, and Lazarus; 
the firft of thefe, when (lie had juft expired ; the fecond, 
as he was carried to his grave on the bier; and the third, 
after he had been fome time buried. And having, by 
thefe gradual advances, manifeftpd his divine power, he at 
laft exerted the higheft and moft glorious degree of it; and 
raifed’himfelf alfo by his own all-quickening virtue, and 
according to his own exprefs prediction. Atterbury. 
ADVANCED, adj. in a general fenfe, denotes fomething 
polled or fituated before another. Thus, advanced-ditch, 
in fortification, is that which furrounds the glacis or efpla- 
nade of a place. 
Advanced-guard, or Vanguard, in the art of war, 
the firft line or divifion of an army, ranged or marching in 
order of battle; or, it is that part which is next the ene¬ 
my, and marches firft towards them. This term is more 
particularly ufed for a fmall party of horfe ftationed be¬ 
fore the main-guard. 
ADVANCEMENT,/ [at* an cement, Fr.] The aft of 
coming forward. The Rate of being advanced; prefer¬ 
ment; The aft of advancing another. Improvement; 
promotion to a higher date of excellence.—Nor' can we 
conceive it unwelcome unto thofe worthies, who endeavour 
the advancement of learning. Brown. 
■ ADVANCER,/. He that advances any thing; a pro- 
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moter; forwarder. Among fportfmen, it is one of the 
ftarts or branches of a buck’s attire, between the backanG 
ler and the palm. 
ADVANTAGE,/, [avantage, Fr.] Superiority; often 
with of or over before a perfon.—In the practical prudence 
of managing fuch gifts, the laity may have fome advantage 
over the clergy; whofe experience is, and ought to be, 
lefs of this world than the other. Sprat. —All other forts 
and fefts of men would evidently have the advantage of 
uSj and a much furer title to happmels than we. Atterbury. 
—Superiority gained by ftratagem, or unlawful means. 
Opportunity; convenience. Favourable circumftances. 
Superior excellence. Gain; profit. Overplus; fomething 
more than the mere lawful gain. Preponderation on one 
fide of the companion.—Much more lhould the conlide- 
ration of this pattern arm us with patience againft ordina¬ 
ry calamities ; efpecially if we confider his example with 
this advantage, that though his fufferings were wholly un¬ 
defended, and not for himfelf but for us, yet he bore them 
patiently. Tillotfon. 
To Advantage, v. a. To benefit. To promote ; to 
bring forward ; to gain ground to.—The great bulinefs of 
the fenfes being to make us take notice of what hurts or 
advantages the body, it is wifely ordered by nature, that 
pain (hould accompany the reception of feveral ideas. Locke., 
ADVANTAGEABLE, adj. Profitable; convenient; 
gainful.—As it is advantageable to a pliyfician to be called 
to the cure of declining difeafe, fo it is for a commander 
to fupprefs a fedition which has paffed the height. Hayward. 
ADVANTAGED, adj. Poffeffed of advantages; com- 
modioufly fituated or difpofed.—In the moft advantaged. 
tempers, this difpofition is but comparative; whereas the 
moft of men labour under difadvantages, which nothing 
can rid them of. Glanville. 
ADVANTAGE-GROUND,/ Ground that gives fu- 
periority, and opportunities of annoyance or refiftance. 
ADVANTAGEOUS, adj. \_avantageux, Fr.] Of ad¬ 
vantage ; profitable; ufeful; opportune; convenient. It 
is ufed with relation to perfons, and followed by to. —Since 
every painter paints himfelf in his own works, ’tis advan¬ 
tageous to him to know himfelf, to the end that he may cul¬ 
tivate thofe talents which make his genius. Dryden. 
ADVANTAGEOUSLY, adv. Conveniently; oppor¬ 
tunely ; profitably. 
ADVANTAGEOUSNESS,/ Quality of being advan¬ 
tageous; profitablenefs; ufefulnefs; convenience.—The 
laft property, which qualifies God for the fitted objeft of 
our love, is the advantageoufnefs of his to us, both in the 
prefent and the future life. Boyle. 
ADUAR,/ in the Arabian and Moorifh cuftoms, a 
kind of ambulatory village, confiding of tents, which thefe 
people remove from one place to another, as fuits their 
conveniency. ■ - 
To ADVENE, v. n. \_advenio, Lat.] To accede to fome¬ 
thing; to become part of fomething elfe, without being 
effential; to be fuperadded. 
ADVENIENT, adj. \_adveniens, Lat.] Advening; co¬ 
rning from outward caufes; fuperadded.—If to fuppofe 
the foul a diftincl fubftance from the body, and extrinfi- 
cally advcnicnt, be a great error in philofophy, almoft all 
the world hath been miftaken. Glanville. 
ADVENT,/ [from adventus; i. e. adventus Redcmpto- 
ris, Lat.] The name of one of the holy feafons, fignifying 
the coming-, that is, the coming of our Saviour-, which is 
made the fubjeft of our devotion during the four weeks 
before Chriftmas. It begins on St. Andrew’s day, or on 
the Sunday before or after it. • During Advent, and to the 
end of the oftaves of Epiphany, the lolemnizing of mar¬ 
riage is forbidden without a fpecial licence. 
ADVENTINE, adj. [from advenio, adventum, Lat.] 
Adventitious; that which is extrinfically added; that 
which comes from outward caufes-; a word fcarcely in ufe. 
ADVENTITIOUS, adj. [ adventitius , Lat.] Thatwhich 
.advenes; accidental; fupervenient; extrinfically added, 
not effentially inhereiTt.—Difeafcs of continuance get an 
adventitious 
