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Show AD a fupreme excellent Being, may yet give him n affift their patents, or encourage them with ne Bentley hopes of pofterity external adoration at all w. a. [adopto," Lat. gy ADOPT a fon, who was not {o by birth O ceremony, fhew me but thy worth ‘What is thy toll, O adoration Art thou naught elfe but place,- degree, and form Were none of all my father's fifters left Nay, were I of my mother's kin bereft None by an uncle's or a grandame's fide Creating awe and fear in other men Wherein thou art lefs happy, being fear'd Than they in fearing What drink'ft thou oft, inftead of homage fweet But poifon'd flattery Shakefpeare's Henry V Dryden Yet I could fome adopted heir provide 2. To place any perfon or thing in a neare relation, than they have by nature t fomething elfe 70 ADO'RE Thou roll''ft above us in thy wand'ring race Or, in proceffion fix'd and regular Mov'd with the heav'ns majeftic pace 2. It is ufed, popularly, to denote a hig degree of reverence or regard; to reve Thou tread'ft, with feraphims, the vaft abyfs Dryden We are feldom at eafe from the folicitation o rence ; to honour -our natural or adopred defires ; but a conftant fucceflion of uneafimefles, out of that ftock, whic h"‘ 4 to love The people appear adoring their prince, and thei prince adoring God Tatler, No 57 natural wants, or acquired habits, have heaped up Locke take the will in their turns [adoro, Lat. The mountain nymphs and Themis they adore And from her oracles relief implore Dryden Or eall'd to more celeftial blifs mi @.a 1. To worfhip with external homage ; t pay divine honours adopted to fome neighb'ring ftar Whether Stilling flec 2. Homage paid to perfons in high plac or efteem to make hi 1. To take a fon by choice AD Make future times thy equal a& adore And be what brave Oreftes was before ADOPTEDLY. adw. [from adopred.] AfPope's Odyffey ADO'REMENT. . /. [from adore.] Adoter the manner of fomething adopted Adoptedly, as fchool-maids change their names ration ; worfhip: a word fcarcely ufed though apt By vain Apo'PTER #./ Shake[peare affeGion [from adopr. H The priefts of elder times deluded their appre tha henfions with footh-faying, and fuch oblique idolatries, and won their credulities to the literal an downright adorement of cats, lizards, and beetles Brown's Vulgar Errours gives fome one by choice the rights of fon Avo'rrioN. #. [ [adoptio, Lat. 1. The a& of adopting, or taking to one' felf what is not native 2. The ftate of being adopted Apo'RER. 7. /. [from adore. 1. He that adores ; a worfhipper ; a ter generally ufed 'in a low {enfe; as, b lovers My bed fhall be abufed, my reputation gnaw at; and I fhall not only receive this villainou wrong Being fo far provoked as I was in France, would abate her nothing; though I profefs myfel her adorer, not her friend. Shakefpcare's Cymbeline ‘Whilft as th" approaching pageant does appear And echoing crowds fpeak mighty Venus near I, her adorer, too devoutly ftan Faft on the utmoft margin of the land Prior but ftand under the adoption of abominabl terms, and by him that does me the wrong Shakefpeare She purpos'd ‘When fhe had fitted you with her craft, to wor Her fon into th' adsption of the crown. Shakefpeare In every adt of our Chriftian worfhip, we ar taught to call upon him under the endearing cha 2. A worthipper; in a ferious fenfe He wa Ap0o'PTIVE 1. H adj. [adoptivus that is adopte 70 ADO'RN. «. a. [adorno, Latin. 1. To drefs ; to deck the perfon with or Lat. an made his fon naments He hath clothed me with the garments of falvation he hath covered me with the robe of righteoufnefs as a bridegroom decketh himfelf with ornaments and as a bride adorneth herfelf with her jewels Itis impoflible an elefive monarch fhould be f free and abfolute as an hereditary; no more tha it is poffible for a father to have fo full power an intereft in an adoptive fon as in a natural Bacon Ifaiak, Ixi. 10 2. He that adopts another, and makes hi his fon Yet 'tis not to adorn and gild each part That fhews more coft than att Cozv/ey Jewels at nofe and lips, but ill appear An adopted fon cannot cite his adoptive fathe Ayliffe's Parergon into court, without his leave 2. To fet out any place or thing with decorations 'Tha ADO'RABLE. adj. [adorable, Fr. which ought to be adored; that whic 1s worthy of divine honours On thefe two, the love of God A gallery adorned with the pi€tures or ftatues o the invention of things ufeful to human life. Cozv/ey 3. To embellifh with oratory or eleganc of language and our neigh bour, hang both the law and the 'prophets, fay the adorable Author of Chriftianity; and th Apofile fays, the end of the law is charity. Cheyne ADO'RABLENESS . / This will fupply men's tongues with many ne things [from adorable. Apo'RARLY. adv. [from adorable. -diftin€tio church and ferviceable worfhip we name fake whatfoeve belonget or publick fociety, of God external adoration t L Sprat For, tho' unknown to me, they fure fought well Dryden Apo''rN. adj. [from the verb.] Adorned .decorated : a word pecaliar to Milton She'll to realities yield all her fhows Made fo adorn for thy delight the more fo ADO'RNMENT th 7 [fromadern. by way o now in ufe Hooker Milton Orna ment ; embellithment ; elegance no i w th ea th t v g n w ut ri at i T ~ Jris poffible to fuppofe, that thofe who beliey e defcribed, i ‘Whofe names fome nobler poem fhall adorn "1. The external homage paid to the Divinity, diftinét from mental reverence Solem adorned, an Thoufands there are in darker fame that dwell In manner worthy of adoration ADORA'TION. 7 [ [adoratio, Lat. to be named _ their difcourfe The quality of being adorable ; worthinels of divine honours as not t Clarendon Rogers's Sermons another b fo fevere an "adorer of truth diffemble; or to fuffer any man to think that h would do any thing, which he refolved not to do raéter of our Father, to remind us of our adoption that we are made heirs of God, and joint heirs o Chrift or admirers it was confufed 5 nor to the heavens, before the had motion and adornment Raleigh's Hiftory of the World She held the very garment of Pofthumus in mor refpeét than my noble and natural perfon, togethe with the adormment of my qualities Shakefpeare's Cymbeline Apo'wN. adw. [froma and down. Down on the ground Thrice did fhe fink adswx in deadly found And thrice he her reviv'd with bufy pain Apo'wn prep ground Downj fro Fairy Queen toward th fituatio te a highe wards a lower In this remembrance Emily ere da Arofe, and drefs'd herfelf in rich array Frefh as the month and as the morning fair Adowwnherfhoulders fell herlengt of hair. Drydes ApRrE'Ap adv [fro a and dread as afide, athirft, aflecp.] Ina ftate of fear frighted; terrified: now obfolete And thinking to make all men adread to fuch one an enemy, who would not fpare, nor fear t kill {o great a prince Sidney ApRri‘FT. adv. [from a and drift, fro drive,] Floating at random ; as an impulfe may drive Then, fhall this moun Of paradife, by might of waves, be mov' Out of his place, pufh'd by the horned flood With all his verdure fpoil'd, and trees adrif Down the great river, to the opening gulf And there take root Miltor It feem'd a corps adrift to diftant fight But at a diftance who could judge aright 2 Dryden -The cuftom of frequent refle€tio their minds from running adrift, an thoughts home from ufélefs unattentiv Locke o ADROIT adj will kee call thei roving Education [French.] = Dextrous attive; fkilful An adroit frout fellow would fometimes deftro a whole family, with juftice apparently againf him the whole time Ferwas's Don Quixote Dex z /. [from adreir. Aproi'rNEss terity ; readinefs; activity Neithe this word, nor adroif, {feem yet com pletely naturalized AprY'. adv. [from & and dry. thirfty; in want of drink He never told any of them Athirft that he was hi humble fervant, but his well-wither; and woul rather be thought/a malecontent, than drink th Spetator king's health when he was not adry Apsciti'rious. adj. [adfcititins, Lat. That which is taken in to complet fomething elfe, though originally extrinfick ; fupplemental ; additional ApsTri'cTiON. 7. [ [adffridic, Lat. The aét of binding together; and applied generally an to medicament applications, which have the power o making the part contrat @. a 70 ADVA'NCE [avancer, Fr. 1. To bring forward, in the local fenfe Now morn her rofy fteps in th' eaftern clim Advancing, fow'd the earth with orient pearl Miltor 2. Toraife to preferment ; to aggrandize He hath been ever conftant in his courfe of adwancing me 3 from a private gentlewoman h made me a marchionefs, and from a marchionefs queen ; and now he intends to crown my innocenc Bacen with the glory of martyrdom The declaratio of the greatnefs o whereunto the king advanced him 3. To improve. Mordecul Efthers X, 2 What laws can be advifed more proper and ef fectua |