| adulterer | 1. A man who commits adultery; a married man who has sexual intercourse with a woman not his wife. 2. A man who violates his religious covenant. Origin: Formed fr. The verb adulter, with the E. Ending -er. See Advoutrer. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| adulteress | 1. A woman who commits adultery. 2. A woman who violates her religious engagements. Origin: Fem. From L. Adulter. Cf. Advoutress. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| adultery | Origin: L. Adulterium. See Advoutry. 1. The unfaithfulness of a married person to the marriage bed; sexual intercourse by a married man with another than his wife, or voluntary sexual intercourse by a married woman with another than her husband. It is adultery on the part of the married wrongdoer. The word has also been used to characterise the act of an unmarried participator, the other being married. In the United States the definition varies with the local statutes. Unlawful intercourse between two married persons is sometimes called double adultery; between a married and an unmarried person, single adultery. 2. Adulteration; corruption. 3. Lewdness or unchastity of thought as well as act, as forbidden by the seventh commandment. Faithlessness in religion. 4. The fine and penalty imposed for the offense of adultery. 5. The intrusion of a person into a bishopric during the life of the bishop. 6. Injury; degradation; ruin. "You might wrest the caduceus out of my hand to the adultery and spoil of nature." (B. Jonson) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| adultomorphism | Interpretation of children's behaviour in adult terms. (05 Mar 2000) |
| adunque | <zoology> Hooked; as, a parrot has an adunc bill. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| adust | 1. Inflamed or scorched; fiery. "The Libyan air adust." 2. Looking as if or scorched; sunburnt. "A tall, thin man, of an adust complexion." (Sir W. Scott) 3. <medicine> Having much heat in the constitution and little serum in the blood. Hence: Atrabilious; sallow; gloomy. Origin: L. Adustus, p. P. Of adurere: cf. F. Aduste. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| adustion | 1. The act of burning, or heating to dryness; the state of being thus heated or dried. 2. <surgery> Cauterization. Origin: L. Adustio, fr. Adurere, adustum: cf. F. Adustion. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| adumbration |
prefiguration: the act of providing vague advance indications; representing beforehand a sketchy or imperfect or faint representation
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| adult |
(adult) ([schwa]-dult? [L. adultus grown up] 1. having attained full growth or maturity. 2. a living organism that has attained full growth or maturity.
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| ADU | an adult male person (as opposed to a woman) |
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| ADU | the body of an adult man |
| ADU | acute lung injury characterized by coughing and rales |
| ADU | any of the 32 teeth that replace the deciduous teeth of early childhood and (with luck) can last until old age |
| ADU | mild form of diabetes mellitus that develops gradually in adults |
| ADU | mild form of diabetes mellitus that develops gradually in adults |
| ADU | any substance that adulterates (lessens the purity or effectiveness of a substance) |
| ADU | making impure or corrupt by adding extraneous materials |
| ADU | corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance |
| ADU | mixed with impurities |
| ADU | mixed with impurities |
| ADU | making impure or corrupt by adding extraneous materials |