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<h1>Admonitioner</h1> <Xpage=23>

<hw>Ad`mo*ni"tion*er</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Admonisher.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Admonitive</h1> <Xpage=23>

<hw>Ad*mon"i*tive</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Admonitory. <mark>[R.]</mark> </def><i>Barrow</i>. -- <wordforms><wf>Ad*mon"i*tive*ly</wf>, <tt>adv.</tt></wordforms>

<h1>Admonitor</h1> <Xpage=23>

<hw>Ad*mon"i*tor</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L.]</ety> <def>Admonisher; monitor.</def>

<blockquote>Conscience is at most times a very faithful and prudent <b>admonitor</b>. <i>Shenstone.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Admonitorial</h1> <Xpage=23>

<hw>Ad*mon`i*to"ri*al</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Admonitory.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark> "An <i>admonitorial</i> tone."

<i>Dickens.</i>

<h1>Admonitory</h1> <Xpage=23>

<hw>Ad*mon"i*to*ry</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[LL. <ets>admonitorius</ets>.]</ety> <def>That conveys admonition; warning or reproving; <as>as, an <ex>admonitory</ex> glance</as>.</def> -- <wordforms><wf>Ad*mon"i*to*ri*ly</wf>, <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>adv.</tt></wordforms>

<h1>Admonitrix</h1> <Xpage=23>

<hw>Ad*mon"i*trix</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L.]</ety> <def>A female admonitor.</def>

<h1>Admortization</h1> <Xpage=23>

<hw>Ad*mor`ti*za"tion</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[LL. <ets>admortizatio</ets>. Cf. <er>Amortization</er>.]</ety> <fld>(Law)</fld> <def>The reducing or lands or tenements to mortmain. See <er>Mortmain</er>.</def>

<h1>Admove</h1> <Xpage=23>

<hw>Ad*move"</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>admovere</ets>. See <er>Move</er>.]</ety> <def>To move or conduct to or toward.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Sir T. Browne.</i>

<h1>Adnascent</h1> <Xpage=23>

<hw>Ad*nas"cent</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>adnascens</ets>, p. pr. of <ets>adnasci</ets> to be born, grow.]</ety> <def>Growing to or on something else.</def> "An <i>adnascent</i> plant."

<i>Evelyn.</i>

<h1>Adnate</h1> <Xpage=23>

<hw>Ad"nate</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>adnatus</ets>, p. p. of <ets>adnasci</ets>. See <er>Adnascent</er>, and cf. <er>Agnate</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <fld>(Physiol.)</fld> <def>Grown to congenitally.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>Growing together; -- said only of organic cohesion of unlike parts.</def>

<blockquote>An anther is <b>adnate</b> when fixed by its whole length to the filament. <i>Gray.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>Growing with one side adherent to a stem; -- a term applied to the lateral zooids of corals and other compound animals.</def>

<h1>Adnation</h1> <Xpage=23>

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