Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter A - Page 25
Admit (v. t.) 承認 [+v-ing] [+（that）] [O2]；准許進入；准許……進入（或加入）[（+into/ to）]；容許；可容納 To concede as true; to acknowledge or assent to, as an allegation which it is impossible to deny; to own or confess; as, the argument or fact is admitted; he admitted his guilt.
Admit (v. t.) To be capable of; to permit; as, the words do not admit such a construction. In this sense, of may be used after the verb, or may be omitted.
Both Houses declared that they could admit of no treaty with the king. -- Hume.
Admit (v.) Declare to be true or admit the existence or reality or truth of; "He admitted his errors"; "She acknowledged that she might have forgotten" [syn: admit, acknowledge] [ant: deny].
Admit (v.) Allow to enter; grant entry to; "We cannot admit non-members into our club building"; "This pipe admits air" [syn: admit, allow in, let in, intromit] [ant: refuse, reject, turn away, turn down].
Admit (v.) Allow participation in or the right to be part of; permit to exercise the rights, functions, and responsibilities of; "admit someone to the profession"; "She was admitted to the New Jersey Bar" [syn: admit, let in, include] [ant: exclude, keep out, shut, shut out].
Admit (v.) Admit into a group or community; "accept students for graduate study"; "We'll have to vote on whether or not to admit a new member" [syn: accept, admit, take, take on].
Admit (v.) Afford possibility; "This problem admits of no solution"; "This short story allows of several different interpretations" [syn: admit, allow].
Admit (v.) Give access or entrance to; "The French doors admit onto the yard".
Admit (v.) Have room for; hold without crowding; "This hotel can accommodate 250 guests"; "The theater admits 300 people"; "The auditorium can't hold more than 500 people" [syn: accommodate, hold, admit].
Admit (v.) Serve as a means of entrance; "This ticket will admit one adult to the show".
Admittable (a.) 許入的；可容許的 Admissible. -- Sir T. Browne.
Admittable (a.) Deserving to be allowed to enter [syn: admittable, admittible].
Admittance (n.) 承認；接納，允許進入，招收 The act of admitting.
Admittance (n.) Permission to enter; the power or right of entrance; also, actual entrance; reception.
To gain admittance into the house. -- South.
He desires admittance to the king. -- Dryden.
To give admittance to a thought of fear. -- Shak.
Admittance (n.) Concession; admission; allowance; as, the admittance of an argument. [Obs.] -- Sir T. Browne.
Admittance (n.) Admissibility. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Admittance (n.) (Eng. Law) The act of giving possession of a copyhold estate. -- Bouvier.
Syn: Admission; access; entrance; initiation.
Usage: Admittance, Admission. These words are, to some extent, in a state of transition and change. Admittance is now chiefly confined to its primary sense of access into some locality or building. Thus we see on the doors of factories, shops, etc. "No admittance." Its secondary or moral sense, as "admittance to the church," is almost entirely laid aside. Admission has taken to itself the secondary or figurative senses; as, admission to the rights of citizenship; admission to the church; the admissions made by one of the parties in a dispute. And even when used in its primary sense, it is not identical with admittance. Thus, we speak of admission into a country, territory, and other larger localities, etc., where admittance could not be used. So, when we speak of admission to a concert or other public assembly, the meaning is not perhaps exactly that of admittance, viz., access within the walls of the building, but rather a reception into the audience, or access to the performances. But the lines of distinction on this subject are one definitely drawn.
Admittance (n.) (Elec.) The reciprocal of impedance.
Admittance (n.) The right to enter [syn: {entree}, {access}, {accession}, {admission}, {admittance}].
Admittance (n.) The act of admitting someone to enter; "the surgery was performed on his second admission to the clinic" [syn: {admission}, {admittance}].
Admittance, () Eng. law. The act of giving possession of a copyhold estate, as livery of seisin is of a freehold; it is of three kinds, namely upon a voluntary grant by the lord) upon a surrender by the former tenant and upon descent.
Admittance (n.) [ U ] (Formal) 准許進入；進入（權） Permission to enter a place.
// The sign read "Private - no admittance".
// The enquiry centred on how the assassin had gained admittance to (= succeeded in entering) the building.
Admittatur (n.) The certificate of admission given in some American colleges. Admitted
Admitted (a.) Received as true or valid; acknowledged.
Admittedly (adv.) 一般公認地；明白地；無可否認地 Confessedly.
Admittedly (adv.) As acknowledged; "true, she is the smartest in her class" [syn: true, admittedly, avowedly, confessedly].
Admitter (n.) One who admits.
Admitter (n.) A person who admits or something which admits.
Admix (v. t.) 摻合；混合 To mingle with something else; to mix. [R.]
Admix (v.) Mix or blend; "Hyaline casts were admixed with neutrophils".
Admixtion (n.) 混合 A mingling of different things; admixture. -- Glanvill.
Compare: Mingling
Mingling (n.) The action of people mingling and coming into contact; "all the random mingling and idle talk made him hate literary parties".
Compare: Mingle
Mingle (v. t.) 使混合，使相混 [（+with/ together）] Mix or cause to mix together.
[No object] ‘The sound of voices mingled with a scraping of chairs.’
[With object ]‘A smell which mingled disinfectant and soap.’
Mingle (v.) (v. i.) [No object ] 混合起來，相混合；交往，往來 [（+with/ in）] Move among and engage with others at a social function.
‘A chance to mingle with celebs.’
Admixture (n.) 混合（物）；攙雜物，添加物 The act of mixing; mixture.
Admixture (n.) The compound formed by mixing different substances together.
Admixture (n.) That which is mixed with anything.
Admixture (n.) The state of impairing the quality or reducing the value of something [syn: admixture, alloy].
Admixture (n.) An additional ingredient that is added by mixing with the base; "the growing medium should be equal parts of sand and loam with an admixture of peat moss and cow manure"; "a large intermixture of sand" [syn: admixture, intermixture].
Admixture (n.) The act of mixing together; "paste made by a mix of flour and water"; "the mixing of sound channels in the recording studio" [syn: mix, commixture, admixture, mixture, intermixture, mixing].
Admonished (imp. & p. p.) of Admonish
Admonishing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Admonish
Admonish (v. t.) 勸告，告誡，訓誡，提醒，責備 To warn or notify of a fault; to reprove gently or kindly, but seriously; to exhort. "Admonish him as a brother." -- 2 Thess. iii. 15.
Admonish (v. t.) To counsel against wrong practices; to cation or advise; to warn against danger or an offense; -- followed by of, against, or a subordinate clause.
Admonishing one another in psalms and hymns. -- Col. iii. 16.
I warned thee, I admonished thee, foretold The danger, and the lurking enemy. -- Milton.
Admonish (v. t.) To instruct or direct; to inform; to notify.
Moses was admonished of God, when he was about to make the tabernacle. -- Heb. viii. 5.
Admonish (v.) Admonish or counsel in terms of someone's behavior; "I warned him not to go too far"; "I warn you against false assumptions"; "She warned him to be quiet" [syn: {warn}, {discourage}, {admonish}, {monish}].
Admonish (v.) Warn strongly; put on guard [syn: {caution}, {admonish}, {monish}].
Admonish (v.) Take to task; "He admonished the child for his bad behavior" [syn: {admonish}, {reprove}].
Admonisher (n.) 提醒者 One who admonishes.
Admonisher (n.) Someone who gives a warning so that a mistake can be avoided [syn: {admonisher}, {monitor}, {reminder}].
Admonisher (n.) A person who admonishes someone; an adviser, a rebuker.
Admonishment (n.) 訓戒；警告（= admonition）；勸告；忠告 Admonition. [R.] -- Shak.
Admonishment (n.) A firm rebuke [syn: {admonition}, {admonishment}, {monition}].
Admonition (n.) 告誡；警告；勸告 [U] [C] Gentle or friendly reproof; counseling against a fault or error; expression of authoritative advice; friendly caution or warning.
Syn: {Admonition}, {Reprehension}, {Reproof}.
Usage: Admonition is prospective, and relates to moral delinquencies; its object is to prevent further transgression. Reprehension and reproof are retrospective, the former being milder than the latter. A person of any age or station may be liable to reprehension in case of wrong conduct; but reproof is the act of a superior. It is authoritative fault-finding or censure addressed to children or to inferiors.
Admonition (n.) Cautionary advice about something imminent (especially imminent danger or other unpleasantness); "a letter of admonition about the dangers of immorality"; "the warning was to beware of surprises"; "his final word of advice was not to play with matches" [syn: {admonition}, {monition}, {warning}, {word of advice}].
Admonition (n.) A firm rebuke [syn: {admonition}, {admonishment}, {monition}].
Admonition (n.) Gentle reproof, as with a meat-axe. Friendly warning.
Consigned by way of admonition, His soul forever to perdition. Judibras
Admonition (n.) A reprimand from a judge to a person accused, on being discharged, warning him of the consequences of his conduct, and intimating to him, that should he be guilty of the same fault for which he has been admonished, he will be punished with greater severity. Merlin, Repert. h.t.
Admonition (n.) The admonition was authorized by the civil law, as a species of punishment for slight misdemeanors. Vide Reprimand.
Admonition, (n.). Gentle reproof, as with a meat-axe. Friendly warning.
Consigned by way of admonition, His soul forever to perdition.
Admonitioner (n.) Admonisher. [Obs.]
Admonitive (a.) Admonitory. [R.] -- Barrow. -- Ad*mon"i*tive*ly, adv.
Admonitor (n.) [L.] 告誡者 Admonisher; monitor.
Conscience is at most times a very faithful and prudent admonitor. -- Shenstone.
Admonitor (n.) A person who admonishes.
Admonitorial (a.) 告戒的；忠告的；警告的；輕責的 Admonitory. [R.] "An admonitorial tone." -- Dickens.
Admonitory (a.) 告戒的；忠告的；警告的；輕責的 That conveys admonition; warning or reproving; as, an admonitory glance. -- Ad*mon"i*to*ri*ly,, adv.
Admonitory (a.) Serving to warn; "shook a monitory finger at him"; "an exemplary jail sentence" [syn: admonitory, cautionary, exemplary, monitory, warning(a)].
Admonitory (a.) Expressing reproof or reproach especially as a corrective [syn: admonitory, admonishing, reproachful, reproving].
Admonitrix (n.) [L.] 女告誡者A female admonitor.
Admortization (n.) (Law) The reducing or lands or tenements to mortmain. See Mortmain.
Admortization (n.) (Also Admortisation) 分期償還；用以分期償還的款項；【會計】攤銷，攤還 The action or an act of paying off a debt, liability, etc., gradually by making regular repayments over a period of time.
Admove (v. t.) To move or conduct to or toward. [Obs.] -- Sir T. Browne.
Adnascent (a.) Growing to or on something else. "An adnascent plant." -- Evelyn.
Adnate (a.) (Physiol.) Grown to congenitally.
Adnate (a.) (Bot.) Growing together; -- said only of organic cohesion of unlike parts.
An anther is adnate when fixed by its whole length to the filament. -- Gray.
Adnate (a.) (Zool.) Growing with one side adherent to a stem; -- a term applied to the lateral zooids of corals and other compound animals.
Adnate (a.) Of unlike parts or organs; growing closely attached; "a calyx adnate to the ovary" [ant: connate].
Adnation (n.) (Bot.) The adhesion or cohesion of different floral verticils or sets of organs.
Adnominal (a.) (Gram.) Pertaining to an adnoun; adjectival; attached to a noun. -- Gibbs. -- Ad*nom"i*nal*ly, adv.
Adnoun (n.) (Gram.) An adjective, or attribute. [R.] -- Coleridge.
Adnoun (n.) An adjective used as a noun; "`meek' in `blessed are the meek' is an adnoun".
Adnubilated (a.) Clouded; obscured. [R.]
Ado (n.) To do; in doing; as, there is nothing ado. "What is here ado?" -- J. Newton.
Ado (n.) Doing; trouble; difficulty; troublesome business; fuss; bustle; as, to make a great ado about trifles.
With much ado, he partly kept awake. -- Dryden.
Let's follow to see the end of this ado. -- Shak.
Ado (n.) A rapid active commotion [syn: bustle, hustle, flurry, ado, fuss, stir].
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Adobe (n.) [Sp.] 曬乾的泥磚 [U]；做泥磚用的黏土 [U]；用泥磚造的房屋 [C] An unburnt brick dried in the sun; also used as an adjective, as, an adobe house, in Texas or New Mexico.
Adobe (n.) Earth from which unburnt bricks are made. [Western U. S.].
Adobe (n.) (Geol.) Alluvial and playa clays of desert and arid regions, differing from ordinary clays of humid regions in containing carbonates and other soluble minerals.
Adobe (n.) The clay from which adobe bricks are made.
Adobe (n.) Sun-dried brick; used in hot dry climates [syn: {adobe}, {adobe brick}].
Adolescence (n.) [U] 青春期，青少年時期；（文化等的）發育成形階段 The state of growing up from childhood to manhood or womanhood; youth, or the period of life between puberty and maturity, generally considered to be, in the male sex, from fourteen to twenty-one. Sometimes used with reference to the lower animals.
Adolescence (n.) The time period between the beginning of puberty and adulthood.
Adolescence (n.) In the state that someone is in between puberty and adulthood.
Adolescence (n.), Persons. That age which follows puberty and precedes the age of majority; it commences for males at fourteen, and for females at twelve years completed, and continues till twenty-one years complete.
Adolescence (n.) [ U ] 青春期；青春 The period of time in a person's life when they are developing into an adult.
// She had a troubled adolescence.
// Yet another novel about the joys and sorrows of adolescence.
Adolescency (n.) 青春期 (Rare: Adolescence) The quality of being adolescent; youthfulness.
Adolescent (a.) 青春期的；青少年的；幼稚的，未成熟的 Growing; advancing from childhood to maturity.
Schools, unless discipline were doubly strong, Detain their adolescent charge too long. -- Cowper.
Adolescent (n.) 青少年 [C] A youth.
Adolescent (a.) Relating to or peculiar to or suggestive of an adolescent; "adolescent problems".
Adolescent (a.) Being of the age 13 through 19; "teenage mothers"; "the teen years" [syn: {adolescent}, {teen}, {teenage}, {teenaged}].
Adolescent (a.) Displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity; "adolescent insecurity"; "jejune responses to our problems"; "their behavior was juvenile"; "puerile jokes" [syn: {adolescent}, {jejune}, {juvenile}, {puerile}].
Adolescent (a.) In the state of development between puberty and maturity; "adolescent boys and girls".
Adolescent (n.) A juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity [syn: {adolescent}, {stripling}, {teenager}, {teen}].
Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis (n.) 青少年原發性脊柱側彎 All spines have curves, but occasionally the spine twists and develops curves in the wrong direction - sideways. It is natural for the spine to curve forward and backward to a certain degree; this is what gives the spine its "S"-like shape. However, when a person's spine twists and develops an "S" -shaped side-to-side/lateral curve, it is a condition known as scoliosis. To further explain this, think about what your spine looks and feels like if you bend forward at the waist. With most people the spine will look and feel like a straight line, but in a person with scoliosis, the spine will look and feel like a curved line.
When the patient is an adolescent, and the scoliosis does not have a known cause, the condition is called adolescent idiopathic scoliosis. This form of scoliosis occurs in an otherwise healthy child who does not have accompanying neurologic, muscular, or developmental vertebral abnormality. It is the most common form of spinal deformity seen by doctors; it has a 0.3 to 15.3 percent occurrence rate in the general population.
Most cases of scoliosis are first discovered and treated in childhood or adolescence, particularly during puberty when the curvature becomes more noticeable. Scoliosis is divided into four categories, which are based on the age the condition is diagnosed:
Adolescent scoliosis (n.) Lateral curvature of the spine occurring during adolescence.
Adonean (a.) Pertaining to Adonis; Adonic. "Fair Adonean Venus." -- Faber.
Adonic (a.) Relating to Adonis, famed for his beauty.
Adonic (n.) An Adonic verse.
Adonic verse, A verse consisting of a dactyl and spondee (-- [crescent] [crescent] | -- --).
Adonic (a.) Or relating to or like Adonis.
Adonic (a.) Having a rhythm consisting of a dactyl followed by a spondee or a trochee; "the verse of the laments is Adonic".
Adonic (n.) A verse line with a dactyl followed by a spondee or trochee; supposedly used in laments by Adonis [syn: Adonic, Adonic line].
Adonis (n.) (Gr. Myth.) 【希神】阿多尼斯（愛神Aphrodite所愛的美少年）；（亦作a-）美少年；花花公子；【植】側金盞花屬；阿多尼斯（金星附近的一顆小行星） A youth beloved by Venus for his beauty. He was killed in the chase by a wild boar.
Adonis (n.) A preeminently beautiful young man; a dandy.
Adonis (n.) (Bot.) A genus of plants of the family Ranunculaceae, containing the pheasant's eye ({Adonis autumnalis); -- named from Adonis, whose blood was fabled to have stained the flower.
Adonis (n.) Any handsome young man.
Adonis (n.) Annual or perennial herbs [syn: Adonis, genus Adonis].
Adonis (n.) (Greek mythology) A handsome youth loved by both Aphrodite and Persephone; "when Adonis died Zeus decreed that he should spend winters in the underworld with Persephone and spend summers with Aphrodite."
ADONIS, () ADvanced On-Screen Information System, "AdonIS."
Adonist (n.) One who maintains that points of the Hebrew word translated "Jehovah" are really the vowel points of the word "Adonai." See Jehovist.
Adonize (v. t.) 裝飾；打扮 To beautify; to dandify.
I employed three good hours at least in adjusting and adonozing myself. -- Smollett. Adoor
Adoor () Alt. of Adoors.
Adoors () At the door; of the door; as, out adoors. -- Shak.
I took him in adoors. -- Vicar's Virgil (1630).
Adopted (imp. & p. p.) of Adopt.
Adopting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Adopt.
Adopt (v. t.) 採納，採用：正式通過：領養 To take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.; esp. to take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be in the place of, or as, one's own child.
Adopt (v. t.) To take or receive as one's own what is not so naturally; to select and take or approve; as, to adopt the view or policy of another; these resolutions were adopted.
Adopt (v.) Choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans; "She followed the feminist movement"; "The candidate espouses Republican ideals" [syn: {adopt}, {follow}, {espouse}].
Adopt (v.) Take up and practice as one's own [syn: {adopt}, {borrow}, {take over}, {take up}].
Adopt (v.) Take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities; "When will the new President assume office?" [syn: {assume}, {adopt}, {take on}, {take over}].
Adopt (v.) Take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect; "His voice took on a sad tone"; "The story took a new turn"; "he adopted an air of superiority"; "She assumed strange manners"; "The gods assume human or animal form in these fables" [syn: {assume}, {acquire}, {adopt}, {take on}, {take}].
Adopt (v.) Take into one's family; "They adopted two children from Nicaragua" [syn: {adopt}, {take in}].
Adopt (v.) Put into dramatic form; "adopt a book for a screenplay" [syn: {dramatize}, {dramatise}, {adopt}].
Adopt (v.) Take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own; "She embraced Catholicism"; "They adopted the Jewish faith" [syn: {espouse}, {embrace}, {adopt}, {sweep up}].
Adoptable (a.) 可採用的；可收養的 Capable of being adopted.
Adoptable (a.) Suitable or eligible for adoption; "a shortage of adoptable babies" [ant: unadoptable].
Adopted (a.) 被收養的；有收養關係的；被採用的；adopt的動詞過去式、過去分詞 Taken by adoption; taken up as one's own; as, an adopted son, citizen, country, word. -- A*dopt"ed*ly, adv.
Adopted (a.) Acquired as your own by free choice; "my adopted state"; "an adoptive country" [syn: adopted, adoptive] [ant: native].
Adopter (n.) [C] 養父；養母；採納者，採用者 One who adopts.
Adopter (n.) (Chem.) A receiver, with two necks, opposite to each other, one of which admits the neck of a retort, and the other is joined to another receiver. It is used in distillations, to give more space to elastic vapors, to increase the length of the neck of a retort, or to unite two vessels whose openings have different diameters. [Written also adapter.]
Adopter (n.) A person who adopts a child of other parents as his or her own child [syn: adoptive parent, adopter].
Adoption (n.) 採納，採用；正式通過 [U] [C]；收養 [U] The act of adopting, or state of being adopted; voluntary acceptance of a child of other parents to be the same as one's own child.
Adoption (n.) Admission to a more intimate relation; reception; as, the adoption of persons into hospitals or monasteries, or of one society into another.
Adoption (n.) The choosing and making that to be one's own which originally was not so; acceptance; as, the adoption of opinions. -- Jer. Taylor.
Adoption (n.) The act of accepting with approval; favorable reception; "its adoption by society"; "the proposal found wide acceptance" [syn: adoption, acceptance, acceptation, espousal].
Adoption (n.) A legal proceeding that creates a parent-child relation between persons not related by blood; the adopted child is entitled to all privileges belonging to a natural child of the adoptive parents (including the right to inherit).
Adoption (n.) The appropriation (of ideas or words etc) from another source; "the borrowing of ancient motifs was very apparent" [syn: borrowing, adoption].
Adoption () The giving to any one the name and place and privileges of a son who is not a son by birth.
Adoption () Natural. Thus Pharaoh's daughter adopted Moses (Ex. 2:10), and Mordecai Esther (Esther 2:7).
Adoption () National. God adopted Israel (Ex. 4:22; Deut. 7:6; Hos. 11:1; Rom. 9:4).
Adoption () Spiritual. An act of God's grace by which he brings men into the number of his redeemed family, and makes them partakers of all the blessings he has provided for them. Adoption represents the new relations into which the believer is introduced by justification, and the privileges connected therewith, viz., an interest in God's peculiar love (John 17:23; Rom. 5:5-8), a spiritual nature (2 Pet. 1:4; John 1:13), the possession of a spirit becoming children of God (1 Pet. 1:14; 2 John 4; Rom. 8:15-21; Gal. 5:1; Heb. 2:15), present protection, consolation, supplies (Luke 12:27-32; John 14:18; 1 Cor. 3:21-23; 2 Cor. 1:4), fatherly chastisements (Heb. 12:5-11), and a future glorious inheritance (Rom. 8:17,23; James 2:5; Phil. 3:21).
Adoption, () Civil law. The act by which a person chooses another from a strange family, to have all the rights of his own child. Merl. Repert. h.t.; Dig. 1, 7, 15, 1; and see Arrogation. By art. 232, of the civil code of Louisiana, it is abolished in that state. It never was in use in any other of the United States.
Adoptionist (n.) (Eccl. Hist.) One of a sect which maintained that Christ was the Son of God not by nature but by adoption.
Adoptious (a.) Adopted. [Obs.]
Adoptive (a.) 採用的；收養的 Pertaining to adoption; made or acquired by adoption; fitted to adopt; as, an adoptive father, an child; an adoptive language. -- A*dopt"ive*ly, adv.
Adoptive (a.) Of parents and children; related by adoption; "adoptive parents" [ant: biological].
Adoptive (a.) Acquired as your own by free choice; "my adopted state"; "an adoptive country" [syn: adopted, adoptive] [ant: native].
Adorability (n.) Adorableness.
Adorability (n.) Extreme attractiveness [syn: adorability, adorableness].
Adorable (a.) 值得崇拜的，可敬重的；【口】可愛的 Deserving to be adored; worthy of divine honors.
The adorable Author of Christianity. -- Cheyne.
Adorable (a.) Worthy of the utmost love or respect.
Adorable (a.) Lovable especially in a childlike or naive way [syn: adorable, endearing, lovely].
Adorableness (n.) The quality of being adorable, or worthy of adoration. -- Johnson.
Adorableness (n.) Extreme attractiveness [syn: adorability, adorableness].
Adorably (adv.) 值得崇拜地，可敬重地；【口】可愛地 In an adorable manner.
Adorably (adv.) In an adorable manner; "the toddler behaved adorably" [syn: adorably, endearingly].
Adoration (n.) 崇拜，崇敬，敬慕，仰慕 The act of playing honor to a divine being; the worship paid to God; the act of addressing as a god.
The more immediate objects of popular adoration amongst the heathens were deified human beings. -- Farmer.
Adoration (n.) Homage paid to one in high esteem; profound veneration; intense regard and love; fervent devotion.
Adoration (n.) A method of electing a pope by the expression of homage from two thirds of the conclave.
[Pole] might have been chosen on the spot by adoration. -- Froude.
Adoration (n.) A feeling of profound love and admiration [syn: {worship}, {adoration}].
Adoration (n.) The act of admiring strongly [syn: {adoration}, {idolization}, {idolisation}].
Adoration (n.) The worship given to God alone [syn: {adoration}, {latria}].
Adoration (n.) [ U ] 愛慕；熱愛；傾慕 Very strong love or worship for someone.
// Her complete adoration of her brother.
// The painting depicts the Three Wise Men kneeling in adoration of the baby Jesus.
Adoring (imp. & p. p. Adored (/); p. pr. & vb. n.) of Adore
Adore (v. t.) 崇拜，崇敬，敬慕，仰慕 To worship with profound reverence; to pay divine honors to; to honor as deity or as divine.
Bishops and priests, . . . bearing the host, which he [James II.] publicly adored. -- Smollett.
Adore (v. t.) To love in the highest degree; to regard with the utmost esteem and affection; to idolize.
The great mass of the population abhorred Popery and adored Monmouth. -- Macaulay.
Adore (v. t.) To adorn. [Obs.]
Congealed little drops which do the morn adore. -- Spenser.
Adore (v.) Love intensely; "he just adored his wife".
Adore, () To worship; to express reverence and homage. The forms of adoration among the Jews were putting off the shoes (Ex. 3:5; Josh. 5:15), and prostration (Gen. 17:3; Ps. 95:6; Isa. 44:15, 17, 19; 46:6). To "kiss the Son" in Ps. 2:12 is to adore and worship him. (See Dan. 3:5, 6.) The word itself does not occur in Scripture.
Adore, (v. t.) To venerate expectantly.
Adorement (n.) (Obsolete) 崇拜，崇敬，敬慕，仰慕 The act of adoring; adoration. [Obs.] -- Sir T. Browne.
Adorer (n.) One who adores; a worshiper; one who admires or loves greatly; an ardent admirer. "An adorer of truth." -- Clarendon.
I profess myself her adorer, not her friend. -- Shak.
Adorer (n.) Someone who admires a young woman; "she had many admirers" [syn: admirer, adorer].
Adoringly (adv.) With adoration.
Adoringly (adv.) With adoration; "he looked at his wife adoringly."
Adorned (imp. & p. p.) of Adorn.
Adorning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Adorn.
Adorn (v. t.) 裝飾；使生色 [（+with）] To deck or dress with ornaments; to embellish; to set off to advantage; to render pleasing or attractive.
As a bride adorneth herself with her jewels. -- Isa. lxi. 10.
At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorned the venerable place. -- Goldsmith.
Syn: To deck; decorate; embellish; ornament; beautify; grace; dignify; exalt; honor.
Usage: To Adorn, Ornament, Decorate, Embellish. We decorate and ornament by putting on some adjunct which is attractive or beautiful, and which serves to heighten the general effect. Thus, a lady's head-dress may be ornament or decorated with flowers or jewelry; a hall may be decorated or ornament with carving or gilding, with wreaths of flowers, or with hangings. Ornament is used in a wider sense than decorate. To embellish is to beautify or ornament richly, not so much by mere additions or details as by modifying the thing itself as a whole. It sometimes means gaudy and artificial decoration. We embellish a book with rich engravings; a style is embellished with rich and beautiful imagery; a shopkeeper embellishes his front window to attract attention. Adorn is sometimes identical with decorate, as when we say, a lady was adorned with jewels. In other cases, it seems to imply something more. Thus, we speak of a gallery of paintings as adorned with the works of some of the great masters, or adorned with noble statuary and columns. Here decorated and ornamented would hardly be appropriate. There is a value in these works of genius beyond mere show and ornament. Adorn may be used of what is purely moral; as, a character adorned with every Christian grace. Here neither decorate, nor ornament, nor embellish is proper.
Adorn (n.) 裝飾品，飾物 [C]；裝飾；裝飾法 [U] Adornment. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Adorn (a.) Adorned; decorated. [Obs.] -- Milton.
Adorn (v.) Make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc.; "Decorate the room for the party"; "beautify yourself for the special day" [syn: {decorate}, {adorn}, {grace}, {ornament}, {embellish}, {beautify}].
Adorn (v.) Be beautiful to look at; "Flowers adorned the tables everywhere" [syn: {deck}, {adorn}, {decorate}, {grace}, {embellish}, {beautify}].
Adorn (v.) Furnish with power or authority; of kings or emperors [syn: {invest}, {clothe}, {adorn}].
Adornation (n.) Adornment. [Obs.]
Adorner (n.) He who, or that which, adorns; a beautifier.
Adorningly (adv.) By adorning; decoratively.
Adornment (n.) 裝飾品，飾物 [C]；裝飾；裝飾法 [U] An adorning; an ornament; a decoration.
Adornment (n.) A decoration of color or interest that is added to relieve plainness.
Adornment (n.) The action of decorating yourself with something colorful and interesting.
Adosculation (n.) (Biol.) 【醫學】體外受精 Impregnation by external contact, without intromission.
Adown (adv.) From a higher to a lower situation; downward; down, to or on the ground. [Archaic] "Thrice did she sink adown." -- Spenser.
Adown (prep.) Down. [Archaic & Poetic]
Her hair adown her shoulders loosely lay displayed. -- Prior.
Adpress (v. t.) See Appressed. -- Ad*pressed",, a.