Syn. -- Speech; discourse; harangue; oration; petition; lecture; readiness; ingenuity; tact; adroitness.
Ad`dress*ee" (&?;), n. One to whom anything is addressed.
Ad*dres"sion (&?;), n. The act of addressing or directing one's course. [Rare & Obs.] Chapman.
Ad*duce" (&?;), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Adduced (&?;); p. pr. & vb. n. Adducing (&?;).] [L. adducere, adductum, to lead or bring to; ad + ducere to lead. See Duke, and cf. Adduct.] To bring forward or offer, as an argument, passage, or consideration which bears on a statement or case; to cite; to allege.
Reasons . . . were adduced on both sides.
Macaulay.
Enough could not be adduced to satisfy the purpose of illustration.
De Quincey.
Syn. -- To present; allege; advance; cite; quote; assign; urge; name; mention.
Ad*du"cent (&?;), a. [L. addunces, p. pr. of adducere.] (Physiol.) Bringing together or towards a given point; -- a word applied to those muscles of the body which pull one part towards another. Opposed to abducent.
Ad*du"cer (&?;), n. One who adduces.
Ad*du"ci*ble (&?;), a. Capable of being adduced.
Proofs innumerable, and in every imaginable manner diversified, are adducible.
I. Taylor.
Ad*duct" (&?;), v. t. [L. adductus, p. p. of adducere. See Adduce.] (Physiol.) To draw towards a common center or a middle line. Huxley.
Ad*duc"tion (&?;), n. [Cf. F. adduction. See Adduce.] 1. The act of adducing or bringing forward.
An adduction of facts gathered from various quarters.
I. Taylor.
2. (Physiol.) The action by which the parts of the body are drawn towards its axis]; -- opposed to abduction. Dunglison.
Ad*duc"tive (&?;), a. Adducing, or bringing towards or to something.
Ad*duc"tor (&?;), n. [L., fr. adducere.] (Anat.) A muscle which draws a limb or part of the body toward the middle line of the body, or closes extended parts of the body; -- opposed to abductor; as, the adductor of the eye, which turns the eye toward the nose.
In the bivalve shells, the muscles which close the values of the shell are called adductor muscles.
Verrill.
Ad*dulce" (&?;), v. t. [Like F. adoucir; fr. L. ad. + dulcis sweet.] To sweeten; to soothe. [Obs.] Bacon.
A*deem" (&?;), v. t. [L. adimere. See Ademption.] (Law) To revoke, as a legacy, grant, etc., or to satisfy it by some other gift.
||A`de*lan`ta*dil"lo (&?;), n. [Sp.] A Spanish red wine made of the first ripe grapes.
||A`de*lan*ta"do (&?;), n. [Sp., prop. p. of adelantar to advance, to promote.] A governor of a province; a commander. Prescott.
||Ad*e*las"ter (&?;), n. [Gr. &?; not manifest + &?; a star.] (Bot.) A provisional name for a plant which has not had its flowers botanically examined, and therefore has not been referred to its proper genus.
Ad"el*ing (&?;), n. Same as Atheling.
A*del`o*co*don"ic (&?;), a. [Gr. &?; invisible + &?; a bell.] (Zoöl.) Applied to sexual zooids of hydroids, that have a saclike form and do not become free; -- opposed to phanerocodonic.
A*del"o*pod (&?;), n. [Gr. &?; invisible + &?;, &?;, foot.] (Zoöl.) An animal having feet that are not apparent.
||A*del"phi*a (&?;), n. [Gr. 'adelfo`s brother.] (Bot.) A "brotherhood," or collection of stamens in a bundle; -- used in composition, as in the class names, Monadelphia, Diadelphia, etc.
A*del"phous (&?;), a. [Gr. 'adelfo`s brother.] (Bot.) Having coalescent or clustered filaments; -- said of stamens; as, adelphous stamens. Usually in composition; as, monadelphous. Gray.
A*dempt" (*dmt"; 215), p. p. [L. ademptus, p. p. of adimere to take away.] Takes away. [Obs.]
Without any sinister suspicion of anything being added or adempt.
Latimer.
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A*demp"tion (*dmp"shn), n. [L. ademptio, fr. adimere, ademptum, to take away; ad + emere to buy, orig. to take.] (Law) The revocation or taking away of a grant donation, legacy, or the like. Bouvier.
Aden- or Adeno-. [Gr. &?;, &?;, gland.] Combining forms of the Greek word for gland; -- used in words relating to the structure, diseases, etc., of the glands.
{ ||Ad`e*nal"gi*a (&?;), Ad"e*nal`gy (&?;), } n. [Gr. &?; + &?; pain.] (Med.) Pain in a gland.
A*den"i*form (&?;), a. [Aden- + - form.] Shaped like a gland; adenoid. Dunglison.
||Ad`e*ni"tis (&?;), n. [Aden- + - itis.] (Med.) Glandular inflammation. Dunglison.
Ad`e*no*graph"ic (&?;), a. Pertaining to adenography.
Ad`e*nog"ra*phy (&?;), n. [Adeno- + -graphy.] That part of anatomy which describes the glands.
{ Ad"e*noid (&?;), Ad`e*noid"al (&?;) } a. Glandlike; glandular.
Ad`e*no*log"ic*al (&?;), a. Pertaining to adenology.
Ad`e*nol"o*gy (&?;), n. [Adeno- + - logy.] The part of physiology that treats of the glands.
Ad`e*noph"o*rous (&?;), a. [Adeno- + Gr. &?; bearing.] (Bot.) Producing glands.
Ad`e*noph"yl*lous (&?;), a. [Adeno- + Gr. &?; leaf.] (Bot.) Having glands on the leaves.
Ad"e*nose` (?; 277), a. Like a gland; full of glands; glandulous; adenous.
Ad`e*no*tom"ic (&?;), a. Pertaining to adenotomy.
Ad`e*not"o*my (&?;), n. [Adeno- + Gr. &?; a cutting, &?; to cut.] (Anat.) Dissection of, or incision into, a gland or glands.
Ad"e*nous (&?;), a. Same as Adenose.
||Ad"eps (&?;), n. [L.] Animal fat; lard.
A*dept" (&?;), n. [L. adeptus obtained (sc. artem), &?;he who has obtained an art, p. p. of adipsci to arrive &?;at, to obtain; ad + apisci to pursue. See Apt, and cf. Adapt.] One fully skilled or well versed in anything; a proficient; as, adepts in philosophy.
A*dept", a. Well skilled; completely versed; thoroughly proficient.
Beaus adept in everything profound.
Cowper.
A*dep"tion (&?;), n. [L. adeptio. See Adept, a.] An obtaining; attainment. [Obs.]
In the wit and policy of the capitain consisteth the chief adeption of the victory.
Grafton.