Adjuration :: Adjuration (n.) The act of adjuring; a solemn charging on oath, or under the penalty of a curse; an earnest appeal..

Adjuration :: Adjuration (n.) The form of oath or appeal.

Adjuratory :: Adjuratory (a.) Containing an adjuration.

Admensuration :: Admensuration (n.) Same as Admeasurement.

Administrate :: Administrate (v. t.) To administer.

Administration :: Administration (n.) The act of administering; government of public affairs; the service rendered, or duties assumed, in conducting affairs; the conducting of any office or employment; direction; management..

Administration :: Administration (n.) The executive part of government; the persons collectively who are intrusted with the execution of laws and the superintendence of public affairs; the chief magistrate and his cabinet or council; or the council, or ministry, alone, as in Great Britain..

Administration :: Administration (n.) The act of administering, or tendering something to another; dispensation; as, the administration of a medicine, of an oath, of justice, or of the sacrament..

Administration :: Administration (n.) The management and disposal, under legal authority, of the estate of an intestate, or of a testator having no competent executor..

Administration :: Administration (n.) The management of an estate of a deceased person by an executor, the strictly corresponding term execution not being in use..

Administrative :: Administrative (a.) Pertaining to administration; administering; executive; as, an administrative body, ability, or energy..

Administrator :: Administrator (n.) One who administers affairs; one who directs, manages, executes, or dispenses, whether in civil, judicial, political, or ecclesiastical affairs; a manager..

Administrator :: Administrator (n.) A man who manages or settles the estate of an intestate, or of a testator when there is no competent executor; one to whom the right of administration has been committed by competent authority..

Administratorship :: Administratorship (n.) The position or office of an administrator.

Administratrix :: Administratrix (n.) A woman who administers; esp., one who administers the estate of an intestate, or to whom letters of administration have been granted; a female administrator..

Admiration :: Admiration (n.) Wonder; astonishment.

Admiration :: Admiration (n.) Wonder mingled with approbation or delight; an emotion excited by a person or thing possessed of wonderful or high excellence; as, admiration of a beautiful woman, of a landscape, of virtue..

Admiration :: Admiration (n.) Cause of admiration; something to excite wonder, or pleased surprise; a prodigy..

Admirative :: Admirative (a.) Relating to or expressing admiration or wonder.

Adoration :: Adoration (n.) The act of playing honor to a divine being; the worship paid to God; the act of addressing as a god.

Adoration :: Adoration (n.) Homage paid to one in high esteem; profound veneration; intense regard and love; fervent devotion.

Adoration :: Adoration (n.) A method of electing a pope by the expression of homage from two thirds of the conclave.

Adulterate :: Adulterate (v. t.) To defile by adultery.

Adulterate :: Adulterate (v. t.) To corrupt, debase, or make impure by an admixture of a foreign or a baser substance; as, to adulterate food, drink, drugs, coin, etc..

Adulterate :: Adulterate (v. i.) To commit adultery.

Adulterate :: Adulterate (a.) Tainted with adultery.

Adulterate :: Adulterate (a.) Debased by the admixture of a foreign substance; adulterated; spurious.

Adulterated :: Adulterated (imp. & p. p.) of Adulterat.

Adulterating :: Adulterating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Adulterat.

Adulteration :: Adulteration (n.) The act of adulterating; corruption, or debasement (esp. of food or drink) by foreign mixture..

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