Part 152

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To adapt; to make suitable; to fit.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>The land about is exceedingly <b>addicted</b> to wood, but the coldness of the place hinders the growth. <i>Evelyn.</i></blockquote>

<syn>Syn. -- <er>Addict</er>, <er>Devote</er>, <er>Consecrate</er>, <er>Dedicate</er>. <i>Addict</i> was formerly used in a good sense; as, <i>addicted</i> to letters; but is now mostly employed in a bad sense or an indifferent one; as, <i>addicted</i> to vice; <i>addicted</i> to sensual indulgence. "<i>Addicted</i> to staying at home." <i>J. S. Mill</i>. <i>Devote</i> is always taken in a good sense, expressing habitual earnestness in the pursuit of some favorite object; as, <i>devoted</i> to science. <i>Consecrate</i> and <i>dedicate</i> express devotion of a higher kind, involving religious sentiment; as, <i>consecrated</i> to the service of the church; <i>dedicated</i> to God.</syn>

<h1>Addictedness</h1> <Xpage=20>

<hw>Ad*dict"ed*ness</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The quality or state of being addicted; attachment.</def>

<h1>Addiction</h1> <Xpage=20>

<hw>Ad*dic"tion</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. L. <ets>addictio</ets> an adjudging.]</ety> <def>The state of being addicted; devotion; inclination.</def> "His <i>addiction</i> was to courses vain."

<i>Shak.</i>

<h1>Addison's disease</h1> <Xpage=20>

<hw>Ad"di*son's dis*ease"</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>. <ety>[Named from Thomas Addison, M. D., of London, who first described it.]</ety> <fld>(Med.)</fld> <def>A morbid condition causing a peculiar brownish discoloration of the skin, and thought, at one time, to be due to disease of the suprarenal capsules (two flat triangular bodies covering the upper part of the kidneys), but now known not to be dependent upon this causes exclusively. It is usually fatal.</def>

<h1>Additament</h1> <Xpage=20>

<hw>Ad*dit"a*ment</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>additamentum</ets>, fr. <ets>additus</ets>, p. p. of <ets>addere</ets> to add.]</ety> <def>An addition, or a thing added.</def>

<i>Fuller.</i>

<blockquote>My persuasion that the latter verses of the chapter were an <b>additament</b> of a later age. <i>Coleridge.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Addition</h1> <Xpage=20>

<hw>Ad*di"tion</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>addition</ets>, L. <ets>additio</ets>, fr. <ets>addere</ets> to add.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The act of adding two or more things together; -- opposed to <i>subtraction</i> or <i>diminution</i>.</def> "This endless <i>addition</i> or addibility of numbers."

<i>Locke.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Anything added; increase; augmentation; <as>as, a piazza is an <ex>addition</ex> to a building</as>.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Math.)</fld> <def>That part of arithmetic which treats of adding numbers.</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <fld>(Mus.)</fld> <def>A dot at the right side of a note as an indication that its sound is to be lengthened one half.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<p><b>5.</b> <fld>(Law)</fld> <def>A title annexed to a man's name, to identify him more precisely; <as>as, John Doe, <ex>Esq</ex></as>.; Richard Roe, <i>Gent</i>.; Robert Dale, <i>Mason</i>; Thomas Way, <i>of New York</i>; a mark of distinction; a title.</def>

<p><b>6.</b> <fld>(Her.)</fld> <def>Something added to a coat of arms, as a mark of honor; -- opposed to <i>abatement</i>.</def>

<cs><col>Vector addition</col> <fld>(Geom.)</fld>, <cd>that kind of addition of two lines, or vectors, AB and BC, by which their sum is regarded as the line, or vector, AC.</cd></cs>

<syn>Syn. -- Increase; accession; augmentation; appendage; adjunct.</syn>

<h1>Additional</h1> <Xpage=20>

<hw>Ad*di"tion*al</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Added; supplemental; in the way of an addition.</def>

<h1>Additional</h1> <Xpage=20>

<hw>Ad*di"tion*al</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Something added.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>