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  • English Word Adultery Definition 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.
  • English Word Adultery Definition Adulteration; corruption.
  • English Word Adultery Definition Lewdness or unchastity of thought as well as act, as forbidden by the seventh commandment.
  • English Word Adultery Definition Faithlessness in religion.
  • English Word Adultery Definition The fine and penalty imposed for the offense of adultery.
  • English Word Adultery Definition The intrusion of a person into a bishopric during the life of the bishop.
  • English Word Adultery Definition Injury; degradation; ruin.
  • English Word Adultness Definition The state of being adult.
  • English Word Adumbrant Definition Giving a faint shadow, or slight resemblance; shadowing forth.
  • English Word Adumbrate Definition To give a faint shadow or slight representation of; to outline; to shadow forth.
  • English Word Adumbrate Definition To overshadow; to shade.
  • English Word Adumbration Definition The act of adumbrating, or shadowing forth.
  • English Word Adumbration Definition A faint sketch; an outline; an imperfect portrayal or representation of a thing.
  • English Word Adumbration Definition The shadow or outlines of a figure.
  • English Word Adumbrative Definition Faintly representing; typical.
  • English Word Adunation Definition A uniting; union.
  • English Word Adunc Definition Alt. of Adunque
  • English Word Aduncity Definition Curvature inwards; hookedness.
  • English Word Aduncous Definition Curved inwards; hooked.
  • English Word Adunque Definition Hooked; as, a parrot has an adunc bill.
  • English Word Adure Definition To burn up.
  • English Word Adust Definition Inflamed or scorched; fiery.
  • English Word Adust Definition Looking as if or scorched; sunburnt.
  • English Word Adust Definition Having much heat in the constitution and little serum in the blood. [Obs.] Hence: Atrabilious; sallow; gloomy.
  • English Word Adusted Definition Burnt; adust.
  • English Word Adustible Definition That may be burnt.
  • English Word Adustion Definition The act of burning, or heating to dryness; the state of being thus heated or dried.
  • English Word Adustion Definition Cauterization.
  • English Word Advance Definition To bring forward; to move towards the van or front; to make to go on.
  • English Word Advance Definition To raise; to elevate.