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Adolescence \Ad`o*les"cence\, n. [Fr., fr. L. adolescentia.] 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. [1913 Webster] more...
Adolescency \Ad`o*les"cen*cy\, n. The quality of being adolescent; youthfulness. [1913 Webster] more...
Adolescent \Ad`o*les"cent\ ([a^]d`[-o]*l[e^]s"sent), a. [L. adolescens, p. pr. of adolescere to grow up to; ad + the inchoative olescere to grow: cf. F. adolescent. See Adult.] Growing; advancing from childhood to maturity. [1913 Webster] Schools, unless discipline were doubly strong, Detain their adolescent charge too long. --Cowper. [1913 Webster]See also: Adult Adolescent \Ad`o*les"cent\, n. A youth. [1913 Webster] more...
Adonai \Ad`o*na"i\, n. [Heb. ad[=o]n[=a]i, lit., my lord.] A Hebrew name for God, usually translated in the Old Testament by the word "Lord". [1913 Webster] Note: The later Jews used its vowel points to fill out the tetragrammaton Yhvh, or Ihvh, "the incommunicable name," and in reading substituted "Adonai". [Webster 1913 Suppl.]See also: Yhvh Ihvh more...
Adonean \Ad`o*ne"an\ (-n[=e]"an), a. [L. Adon[=e]us.] Pertaining to Adonis; Adonic. "Fair Adonean Venus." --Faber. [1913 Webster] more...
Adonic \A*don"ic\, a. [F. adonique: cf. L. Adonius.] Relating to Adonis, famed for his beauty. -- n. An Adonic verse. [1913 Webster] Adonic verse, a verse consisting of a dactyl and spondee (-- [crescent] [crescent] | -- --). [1913 Webster]See also: Adonic verse more...
Adonis \A*do"nis\ ([.a]*d[=o]"n[i^]s), n. [L., gr. Gr. 'A`dwnis.] 1. (Gr. Myth.) A youth beloved by Venus for his beauty. He was killed in the chase by a wild boar. [1913 Webster] 2. A pre["e]minently beautiful young man; a dandy. [1913 Webster] 3. (Bot.) A genus of plants of the family Ranunculace[ae], containing the pheasant's eye (Adonis autumnalis); -- named from Adonis, whose blood was fabled to have more...