n. [ L. adminculum support, orig., that on which the hand rests; ad + manus hand + dim. ending -culym. ] 1. Help or support; an auxiliary. Grote. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) Corroborative or explanatory proof. [ 1913 Webster ]

In Scots law, any writing tending to establish the existence or terms of a lost deed. Bell. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Supplying help; auxiliary; corroborative; explanatory; as, adminicular evidence. H. Spencer. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Adminicular. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Administered p. pr. & vb. n. Administering. ] [ OE. aministren, OF. aministrer, F. administer, fr. L. administrare; ad + ministrare to serve. See Minister. ] 1. To manage or conduct, as public affairs; to direct or superintend the execution, application, or conduct of; as, to administer the government or the state. [ 1913 Webster ]

For forms of government let fools contest:
Whate'er is best administered is best. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To dispense; to serve out; to supply; execute; as, to administer relief, to administer the sacrament. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ Let zephyrs ] administer their tepid, genial airs. Philips. [ 1913 Webster ]

Justice was administered with an exactness and purity not before known. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To apply, as medicine or a remedy; to give, as a dose or something beneficial or suitable. Extended to a blow, a reproof, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

A noxious drug had been administered to him. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To tender, as an oath. [ 1913 Webster ]

Swear . . . to keep the oath that we administer. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Law) To settle, as the estate of one who dies without a will, or whose will fails of an executor. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To manage; conduct; minister; supply; dispense; give out; distribute; furnish. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To contribute; to bring aid or supplies; to conduce; to minister. [ 1913 Webster ]

A fountain . . . administers to the pleasure as well as the plenty of the place. Spectator. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) To perform the office of administrator; to act officially; as, A administers upon the estate of B. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Administrator. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to administration, or to the executive part of government. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being administered; as, an administrable law. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F., p. pr. of administrer. See Administer. ] Executive; acting; managing affairs. -- n. One who administers. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. administratus, p. p. of administrare. ] To administer. [ R. ] Milman. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. administracioun, L. administratio: cf. F. administration. ] 1. The act of administering; government of public affairs; the service rendered, or duties assumed, in conducting affairs; the conducting of any office or employment; direction; management. [ 1913 Webster ]

His financial administration was of a piece with his military administration. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The executive part of government; the persons collectively who are intrusted with the execution of laws and the superintendence of public affairs; the chief magistrate and his cabinet or council; or the council, or ministry, alone, as in Great Britain. [ 1913 Webster ]

A mild and popular administration. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

The administration has been opposed in parliament. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The act of administering, or tendering something to another; dispensation; as, the administration of a medicine, of an oath, of justice, or of the sacrament. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Law) (a) The management and disposal, under legal authority, of the estate of an intestate, or of a testator having no competent executor. (b) The management of an estate of a deceased person by an executor, the strictly corresponding term execution not being in use. [ 1913 Webster ]

Administration with the will annexed, administration granted where the testator has appointed no executor, or where his appointment of an executor for any cause has failed, as by death, incompetency, refusal to act, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Conduct; management; direction; regulation; execution; dispensation; distribution. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. administrativus: cf. F. administratif. ] Pertaining to administration; administering; executive; as, an administrative body, ability, or energy. -- Ad*min"is*tra`tive*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

n. [ L. ] 1. One who administers affairs; one who directs, manages, executes, or dispenses, whether in civil, judicial, political, or ecclesiastical affairs; a manager. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) A man who manages or settles the estate of an intestate, or of a testator when there is no competent executor; one to whom the right of administration has been committed by competent authority. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The position or office of an administrator. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ NL. ] A woman who administers; esp., one who administers the estate of an intestate, or to whom letters of administration have been granted; a female administrator. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. albumen + -ferous. ] Supplying albumen. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. albumen, albuminis + -meter: cf. F. albuminimètre. ] An instrument for ascertaining the quantity of albumen in a liquid. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) The substance of the cells which inclose the white of birds' eggs. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. albumen + parere to bear, bring forth. ] Producing albumin. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or containing aluminium; as, aluminic phosphate. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. alumen alum + -ferous: cf. F. aluminifère. ] Containing alum. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. alumen + -form. ] Having the form of alumina. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. alumen. See Alum. ] (Chem.) same as aluminum, chiefly British in usage. [ 1913 Webster ]

Aluminium bronze or
gold, a pale gold-colored alloy of aluminium and copper, used for journal bearings, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To treat or impregnate with alum; to alum. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Law) An administration subordinate to, and in aid of, the primary or principal administration of an estate. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

‖ [ L., in the year of [ our ] Lord [ Jesus Christ ]; usually abbrev. a. d. ] In the year of the Christian era; as, a. d. 1887. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to Arminius of his followers, or to their doctrines. See note under Arminian, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Eccl. Hist.) One who holds the tenets of Arminius, a Dutch divine (b. 1560, d. 1609). [ 1913 Webster ]

The Arminian doctrines are: 1. Conditional election and reprobation, in opposition to absolute predestination. 2. Universal redemption, or that the atonement was made by Christ for all mankind, though none but believers can be partakers of the benefit. 3. That man, in order to exercise true faith, must be regenerated and renewed by the operation of the Holy Spirit, which is the gift of God. 4. That man may resist divine grace. 5. That man may relapse from a state of grace. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The religious doctrines or tenets of the Arminians. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Bitumen + -ferous. ] Producing bitumen. Kirwan. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. bituminisation. ] The process of bituminizing. Mantell. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Bituminized p. pr. & vb. n. Bituminizing. ] [ Cf. F. bituminiser. ] To prepare, treat, impregnate, or coat with bitumen. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. The religion or system of doctrines of the Brahmans; the religion of Brahma. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. An adherent of the religion of the Brahmans. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ etc. } See Brahman, Brachmanic, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to, or derived from, carmine. [ 1913 Webster ]

Carminic acid. Same as Carmine, 3. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. one of the units in a condominium{ 2 }.
Syn. -- condo. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. a complex of dwelling units (as an apartment house) in which each unit is individually owned (as contrasted with rented). [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Pertaining to, or derived from, cumin, or from oil of caraway; as, cuminic acid. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cuminic acid (Chem.), white crystalline substance, C3H7.C6H4.CO2H, obtained from oil of caraway. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A substance, analogous to benzil, obtained from oil of caraway. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of depriving of bitumen. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To deprive of bitumen. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Metaph.) The doctrine that the will is not free, but is inevitably and invincibly determined by motives, preceding events, and natural laws. [ 1913 Webster ]

Its superior suitability to produce courage, as contrasted with scientific physical determinism, is obvious. F. P. Cobbe. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Metaph.) One who believes in determinism. Also adj.; as, determinist theories. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. of or pertaining to determinism; as, deterministic theories. [ PJC ]

2. causally determined and not subject to random chance. [ PJC ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Diminished p. pr. & vb. n. Diminishing. ] [ Pref. di- (= L. dis-) + minish: cf. L. diminuere, F. diminuer, OE. diminuen. See Dis-, and Minish. ] 1. To make smaller in any manner; to reduce in bulk or amount; to lessen; -- opposed to augment or increase. [ 1913 Webster ]

Not diminish, but rather increase, the debt. Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To lessen the authority or dignity of; to put down; to degrade; to abase; to weaken. [ 1913 Webster ]

This doth nothing diminish their opinion. Robynson (More's Utopia). [ 1913 Webster ]

I will diminish them, that they shall no more rule over the nations. Ezek. xxix. 15. [ 1913 Webster ]

O thou . . . at whose sight all the stars
Hide their diminished heads. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Mus.) To make smaller by a half step; to make (an interval) less than minor; as, a diminished seventh. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To take away; to subtract. [ 1913 Webster ]

Neither shall ye diminish aught from it. Deut. iv. 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

Diminished column, one whose upper diameter is less than the lower. --
Diminished scale, or
Diminishing scale, a scale of gradation used in finding the different points for drawing the spiral curve of the volute. Gwilt. --
Diminishing rule (Arch.), a board cut with a concave edge, for fixing the entasis and curvature of a shaft. --
Diminishing stile (Arch.), a stile which is narrower in one part than in another, as in many glazed doors.

Syn. -- To decrease; lessen; abate; reduce; contract; curtail; impair; degrade. See Decrease. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To become or appear less or smaller; to lessen; as, the apparent size of an object diminishes as we recede from it. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being diminished or lessened. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, diminishes anything. Clerke (1637). [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a manner to diminish. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Diminution. [ R. ] Cheke. [ 1913 Webster ]