prop. n. (Geography) The capital city of Cote d'Ivoire. Population (2000) = 106, 786. [ PJC ]

v. t. [ From Abject, a. ] To cast off or down; hence, to abase; to degrade; to lower; to debase. [ Obs. ] Donne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A person in the lowest and most despicable condition; a castaway. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Shall these abjects, these victims, these outcasts, know any thing of pleasure? I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. abjectus, p. p. of abjicere to throw away; ab + jacere to throw. See Jet a shooting forth. ] 1. Cast down; low-lying. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

From the safe shore their floating carcasses
And broken chariot wheels; so thick bestrown
Abject and lost lay these, covering the flood. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Degraded; servile; groveling; despicable; as, abject posture, fortune, thoughts. “Base and abject flatterers.” Addison. “An abject liar.” Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

And banish hence these abject, lowly dreams. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Sunk to a low condition; down in spirit or hope; miserable; -- of persons. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Humiliating; degrading; wretched; -- of situations; as, abject poverty. [ PJC ]

Syn. -- Mean; groveling; cringing; mean-spirited; slavish; ignoble; worthless; vile; beggarly; contemptible; degraded. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A very abject or low condition; abjectness. [ R. ] Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. abjection, L. abjectio. ] 1. The act of bringing down or humbling. “The abjection of the king and his realm.” Joye. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The state of being rejected or cast out. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

An abjection from the beatific regions where God, and his angels and saints, dwell forever. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A low or downcast state; meanness of spirit; abasement; degradation. [ 1913 Webster ]

That this should be termed baseness, abjection of mind, or servility, is it credible? Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Meanly; servilely. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being abject; abasement; meanness; servility. Grew. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Pref. ab- + judge, v. Cf. Abjudicate. ] To take away by judicial decision. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. abjudicatus, p. p. of abjudicare; ab + judicare. See Judge, and cf. Abjudge. ] To reject by judicial sentence; also, to abjudge. [ Obs. ] Ash. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Rejection by judicial sentence. [ R. ] Knowles. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. abjugatus, p. p. of abjugare. ] To unyoke. [ Obs. ] Bailey. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. abjunctus, p. p. of abjungere; ab + jungere to join. ] Exceptional. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

It is this power which leads on from the accidental and abjunctive to the universal. I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. abjuratio: cf. F. abjuration. ] 1. The act of abjuring or forswearing; a renunciation upon oath; as, abjuration of the realm, a sworn banishment, an oath taken to leave the country and never to return. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A solemn recantation or renunciation; as, an abjuration of heresy. [ 1913 Webster ]

Oath of abjuration, an oath asserting the right of the present royal family to the crown of England, and expressly abjuring allegiance to the descendants of the Pretender. Brande & C. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Containing abjuration. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Abjured p. pr. & vb. n. Abjuring ] [ L. abjurare to deny upon oath; ab + jurare to swear, fr. jus, juris, right, law; cf. F. abjurer. See Jury. ] 1. To renounce upon oath; to forswear; to disavow; as, to abjure allegiance to a prince. To abjure the realm, is to swear to abandon it forever. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To renounce or reject with solemnity; to recant; to abandon forever; to reject; repudiate; as, to abjure errors. “Magic I here abjure.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- See Renounce. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To renounce on oath. Bp. Burnet. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Renunciation. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who abjures. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. (Geography) The capital city of Nigeria. Population (2000) = 339, 000. [ PJC ]

‖n. [ F. See Cashew. ] (Bot.) (a) The cashew tree; also, its fruit. See Cashew. (b) The mahogany tree; also, its timber. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } [ Cf. LL. adjacentia. ] 1. The state or attribute of being adjacent or contiguous; contiguity; the attribute of being so near as to be touching; as, the adjacency of lands or buildings.
Syn. -- contiguousness [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which is adjacent. [ R. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. That which is adjacent. [ R. ] Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. adjacens, -centis, p. pr. of adjacere to lie near; ad + jacēre to lie: cf. F. adjacent. ] Lying near, close, or contiguous; neighboring; bordering on; as, a field adjacent to the highway. “The adjacent forest.” B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

Adjacent or
contiguous angle. (Geom.) See Angle. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Adjoining; contiguous; near. -- Adjacent, Adjoining, Contiguous. Things are adjacent when they lie close each other, not necessary in actual contact; as, adjacent fields, adjacent villages, etc. I find that all Europe with her adjacent isles is peopled with Christians. Howell. [ 1913 Webster ] Things are adjoining when they meet at some line or point of junction; as, adjoining farms, an adjoining highway. What is spoken of as contiguous should touch with some extent of one side or the whole of it; as, a row of contiguous buildings; a wood contiguous to a plain. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. So as to be adjacent. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. adjectus, p. p. of adjicere to throw to, to add to; ad + jac&ebreve_;re to throw. See Jet a shooting forth. ] To add or annex; to join. Leland. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. adjectio, fr. adjicere: cf. F. adjection. See Adject. ] The act or mode of adding; also, the thing added. [ R. ] B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to adjection; that is, or may be, annexed. [ R. ] Earle. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ L. adjectitius. ] Added; additional. Parkhurst. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or relating to the relating to the adjective; of the nature of an adjective; adjective. W. Taylor (1797) [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. As, or in the manner of, an adjective; adjectively. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Adjective, n. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Added to a substantive as an attribute; of the nature of an adjunct; as, an adjective word or sentence. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Not standing by itself; dependent. [ 1913 Webster ]

Adjective color, a color which requires to be fixed by some mordant or base to give it permanency. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Relating to procedure. “The whole English law, substantive and adjective.” Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. adjectivum (sc. nomen), neut. of adjectivus that is added, fr. adjicere: cf. F. adjectif. See Adject. ] 1. (Gram.) A word used with a noun, or substantive, to express a quality of the thing named, or something attributed to it, or to limit or define it, or to specify or describe a thing, as distinct from something else. Thus, in phrase, “a wise ruler, ” wise is the adjective, expressing a property of ruler. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A dependent; an accessory. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Adjectived p. pr. & vb. n. Adjectiving ] To make an adjective of; to form or change into an adjective. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Language has as much occasion to adjective the distinct signification of the verb, and to adjective also the mood, as it has to adjective time. It has . . . adjectived all three. Tooke. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In the manner of an adjective; as, a word used adjectively. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Adjoined p. pr. & vb. n. Adjoining. ] [ OE. ajoinen, OF. ajoindre, F. adjoindre, fr. L. adjungere; ad + jungere to join. See Join, and cf. Adjunct. ] To join or unite to; to lie contiguous to; to be in contact with; to attach; to append. [ 1913 Webster ]

Corrections . . . should be, as remarks, adjoined by way of note. Watts. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To lie or be next, or in contact; to be contiguous; as, the houses adjoin. [ 1913 Webster ]

When one man's land adjoins to another's. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The construction with to, on, or with is obsolete or obsolescent. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To join one's self. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

She lightly unto him adjoined side to side. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Contiguous. [ Obs. ] Carew. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Joining to; contiguous; adjacent; as, an adjoining room. “The adjoining fane.” Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

Upon the hills adjoining to the city. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Adjacent; contiguous; near; neighboring; abutting; bordering. See Adjacent. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An adjunct; a helper. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Adjourned p. pr. & vb. n. Adjourning ] [ OE. ajornen, OF. ajoiner, ajurner, F. ajourner; OF. a (L. ad) + jor, jur, jorn, F. jour, day, fr. L. diurnus belonging to the day, fr. dies day. Cf. Journal, Journey. ] To put off or defer to another day, or indefinitely; to postpone; to close or suspend for the day; -- commonly said of the meeting, or the action, of convened body; as, to adjourn the meeting; to adjourn a debate. [ 1913 Webster ]

It is a common practice to adjourn the reformation of their lives to a further time. Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

'Tis a needful fitness
That we adjourn this court till further day. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To delay; defer; postpone; put off; suspend. -- To Adjourn, Prorogue, Dissolve. These words are used in respect to public bodies when they lay aside business and separate. Adjourn, both in Great Britain and this country, is applied to all cases in which such bodies separate for a brief period, with a view to meet again. Prorogue is applied in Great Britain to that act of the executive government, as the sovereign, which brings a session of Parliament to a close. The word is not used in this country, but a legislative body is said, in such a case, to adjourn sine die. To dissolve is to annul the corporate existence of a body. In order to exist again the body must be reconstituted. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To suspend business for a time, as from one day to another, or for a longer period, or indefinitely; usually, to suspend public business, as of legislatures and courts, or other convened bodies; as, congress adjourned at four o'clock; the court adjourned without day. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Adjournment; postponement. [ R. ] “An adjournal of the Diet.” Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. f. adjournement, OF. ajornement. See Adjourn. ] 1. The act of adjourning; the putting off till another day or time specified, or without day. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The time or interval during which a public body adjourns its sittings or postpones business. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Adjudged p. pr. & vb. n. Adjudging ] [ OE. ajugen, OF. ajugier, fr. L. adjudicare; ad + judicare to judge. See Judge, and cf. Adjudicate. ] 1. To award judicially in the case of a controverted question; as, the prize was adjudged to the victor. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To determine in the exercise of judicial power; to decide or award judicially; to adjudicate; as, the case was adjudged in the November term. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To sentence; to condemn. [ 1913 Webster ]

Without reprieve, adjudged to death
For want of well pronouncing Shibboleth. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To regard or hold; to judge; to deem. [ 1913 Webster ]

He adjudged him unworthy of his friendship. Knolles. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To decree; award; determine; adjudicate; ordain; assign. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who adjudges. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of adjudging; judicial decision; adjudication. Sir W. Temple. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Adjudicated p. pr. & vb. n. Adjudicating [ L. adjudicatus, p. p. of adjudicare. See Adjudge. ] To adjudge; to try and determine, as a court; to settle by judicial decree. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To come to a judicial decision; as, the court adjudicated upon the case. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. adjudicatio: cf. F. adjudication. ] 1. The act of adjudicating; the act or process of trying and determining judicially. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A deliberate determination by the judicial power; a judicial decision or sentence. “An adjudication in favor of natural rights.” Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Bankruptcy practice) The decision upon the question whether the debtor is a bankrupt. Abbott. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Scots Law) A process by which land is attached security or in satisfaction of a debt. [ 1913 Webster ]