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Adonis
n.
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A genus of plants of the family Ranunculaceae, containing the pheasant's eye (Adonis autumnalis); -- named from Adonis, whose blood was fabled to have stained the flower.
Adonist
n.
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One who maintains that points of the Hebrew word translated "Jehovah" are really the vowel points of the word "Adonai." See Jehovist.
Adonize
v. t.
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To beautify; to dandify.
Adoor
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Alt. of Adoors
Adoors
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At the door; of the door; as, out adoors.
Adopted
imp. & p. p.
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of Adopt
Adopting
p. pr. & vb. n.
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of Adopt
Adopt
v. t.
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To take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.; esp. to take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be in the place of, or as, one's own child.
Adopt
v. t.
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To take or receive as one's own what is not so naturally; to select and take or approve; as, to adopt the view or policy of another; these resolutions were adopted.
Adoptable
a.
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Capable of being adopted.
Adopted
a.
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Taken by adoption; taken up as one's own; as, an adopted son, citizen, country, word.
Adopter
n.
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One who adopts.
Adopter
n.
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A receiver, with two necks, opposite to each other, one of which admits the neck of a retort, and the other is joined to another receiver. It is used in distillations, to give more space to elastic vapors, to increase the length of the neck of a retort, or to unite two vessels whose openings have different diameters.
Adoption
n.
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The act of adopting, or state of being adopted; voluntary acceptance of a child of other parents to be the same as one's own child.
Adoption
n.
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Admission to a more intimate relation; reception; as, the adoption of persons into hospitals or monasteries, or of one society into another.
Adoption
n.
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The choosing and making that to be one's own which originally was not so; acceptance; as, the adoption of opinions.
Adoptionist
n.
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One of a sect which maintained that Christ was the Son of God not by nature but by adoption.
Adoptious
a.
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Adopted.
Adoptive
a.
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Pertaining to adoption; made or acquired by adoption; fitted to adopt; as, an adoptive father, an child; an adoptive language.
Adorability
n.
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Adorableness.
Adorable
a.
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Deserving to be adored; worthy of divine honors.
Adorable
a.
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Worthy of the utmost love or respect.
Adorableness
n.
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The quality of being adorable, or worthy of adoration.
Adorably
adv.
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In an adorable manner.
Adoration
n.
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The act of playing honor to a divine being; the worship paid to God; the act of addressing as a god.
Adoration
n.
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Homage paid to one in high esteem; profound veneration; intense regard and love; fervent devotion.
Adoration
n.
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A method of electing a pope by the expression of homage from two thirds of the conclave.
Adoring
imp. & p. p. Adored
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/); p. pr. & vb. n.) of Adore
Adore
v. t.
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To worship with profound reverence; to pay divine honors to; to honor as deity or as divine.
Adore
v. t.
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To love in the highest degree; to regard with the utmost esteem and affection; to idolize.