ADMI- lation: and as long as the fishing season coninues, he carries a flag on his main-mast. RAL. ADMI ADMIRAL, in Conchology, the English name of a RALTY. species of the voluta, a shell fish belonging to the order of vermes testacea. It is very beautiful, and there are several species. ADMIRALTY, the office of Lord High Admiral, as discharged either by one person, or by joint commissioners called Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. ADMIRALTY, Court of, a sovereign court, held by the Lord High Admiral of England, or Lords of the Admiralty, for the trial of all maritime causes, whether civil or criminal. It was instituted by Edward III., and decides by judge and jury upon all crimes committed on the high seas, or on great rivers below the first bridge next the sea. In civil cases the decisions follow the practice of the civil law. By stat. 39 Geo. III. all offences whatsoever committed on the high seas, shall be liable to the same punishments as if committed on shore, and shall be tried and adjudged in the same manner as felonies; and persons wilfully casting away any vessel, or procuring it to be done, are, by the 43d of the king declared to be felons without benefit of clergy: if the offence be committed in the body of a county, they shall be tried as other felons; if upon the seas, under stat. 28 Hen. VIII., which gives the criminal jurisdiction to the Court of Admiralty. A regular Admiralty Sessions of Oyer and Terminer has been held of late years at the Old Bailey, in London, twice in the year. The members of the Privy Council, Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, all the Judges, the Lords of the Treasury, the Secretary of the Admiralty, some of the Aldermen of the City, &c. &c. are included in this commission, which is similar to that granted to the judges on other occasions, except that it is limited to maritime causes and crimes committed within the jurisdiction of the Admiralty. Appeals from all the inferior Admiralty courts may be referred to the Court of Admiralty in England; and by 8 Eliz. c. 5, appeal may be had from the Admiral Court, to delegates appointed by commission of the Court of Chancery, whose sentence shall be final. From the Prize decisions, appeal lies to Commissioners of the Privy Council. When sentence is given by a foreign Admiralty, the party may libel for execution here; because all Admiralty Courts in Europe are governed by the civil law, and sentences of another Admiralty are to be credited in this kingdom, and shall not be exainined here, that our's may be credited there. Many of the decisions are indeed obliged to respect a public, or common law of nations, as well as the particular treaties in being. VICE ADMIRALTY COURTS are established in the colonies and dependencies of Great Britain, under the names of Prize Courts and Instance Courts. The former inquire into all cases of vessels condemned as prizes, detained by enemies or neutrals, or that affect the general interest of captors; the latter into all misdemeanors in merchant ships, &c. At Antigua, the Bahamas, Barbadoes, Bermuda, Bombay, Calcutta, the Cape of Good Hope, Ceylon, Gibraltar, Halifax, Jamaica, Malta, Madras, Newfoundland, and Tortola, were regular Prize Courts of this description established during the late war. At Berbice, St. Cervix, St. Christopher's, Dominica, Demerara, Essiquibo, Grenada, Martinique, Trinidad, St. Vincent's, are Instance Courts. ADMIRALTY, Judge of the, an office established in ADUL 1640, and sometimes filled by two or three persons. At the revolution it was limited to one, whose salary RALTY. is now 2500l. a year. The Judges of the Vice Admiralty Courts in the Colonies, are important officers to the naval and commercial interest, and having cognizance of cases involving immense sums, they have been, by an act of the present reign, allowed in some colonies 2000 l. a year from the consolidated fund, besides other perquisites of their station. ADMIRALTY, Registrar of the, an officer who assists in the judicial proceedings of the Admiralty Courts, and enjoys his place by patent of the Lord High Admiral, or the Commissioners of Admiralty. It is a place of great pecuniary importance. ADMIRALTY, Marshal of the, an officer whose duty it is to commit offenders to the Marshalsea, arrest ships and persons, bear the mace before the Admiralty Judge, and attend naval executions. ADMIRALTY, Procurators of the, act as solicitors in the High Court of Admiralty in all the High Admiral's affairs, and suits of the Crown. There is also a Counsel of the Admiralty, and a Solicitor of the Admiralty, whose business, however, is principally with the military duties of the office. ADMIRALTY Bay, in Geography, a capacious bay on the west coast of Cook's straits (between Cape Stevens and Cape Jackson), in the southern island of New Zealand. The anchorage is good. S. lat. 40°, 37′. E. lon. 174°, 54'. ADMIRALTY Inlet, an entrance to the supposed straits of Juan de Fuca, on the west coast of New Georgia, in N. lat. 48°, 30'. W. lon. 124°, 15′. It was first visited by Vancouver in 1792. The soil on the shores is fertile, well watered, and clothed with vegetation. On each point of the harbour, called Penn's Cove, there was a deserted village in which were several sepulchres in the form of sentry-boxes, containing skeletons and small bones, which were supposed to have been used by the inhabitants for pointing their arrows and spears. The number of inhabitants were estimated at 600. Vancouver's Voyage, vol. i. ADMIRALTY Islands, a cluster of islands to the north of New Britain, in the south Pacific Ocean, in about 2° 18′ S. lat. and 146° 44′ E. lon. There are between twenty and thirty, the largest of which is eighteen leagues in length from east to west. They were discovered by the Dutch in 1616. Captain Carteret, by whom they were visited in 1767, represents their appearance as very inviting. He thought it probable that these islands might produce several valuable articles of trade, particularly spices, as they lie in the same climate and latitude as the Moluccas; but he was prevented from landing personally, to inspect the interior, by the state of his ship and his want of articles of barter necessary in trading with the Indians. They were seen by the Spanish navigator, Morello, in 1781, and by the French expedition in search of La Perouse in 1793, when the islanders evinced much kindness and friendship. Their colour is black, but not of a very deep shade-their stature large, and they are nearly in a state of nudity. ADMIRALTY ISLAND, so named by Vancouver, an island in George the Third's Archipelago, on the northwest coast of New Norfolk in America, between N. lat. 57° and 58° 30′; and between W. lon. 134° and 135°. It is 60 leagues in circumference, has numerous con ADMIRE. ADMI- venient bays, with fine streams of fresh water and RALTY. noble forests of timber, chiefly of the pine tribe. There is singular evidence of the encroachment of the water of the Pacific on the western American shore in this island and the neighbourhood. Vancouver's men observed many trunks of dead trees at the base of those mountains which extended toward the sea, in different stages of decay, and at low water mark they were considerably increased in number. At Prince William's Sound, Port Chalmers, and in Cook's Inlet, they had observed the same appearances, but the hostile conduct of the inhabitants prevented any extended search into the general character of the island. Vancouver's Voyage, vol. iii. ADMIRE', v. ADMIRABLE, ADMIRABLENESS, ADMIRABLY, ADMIR'ANCE, ADMIRATION, Ad: miror. To wonder at. To think, deem, or consider as extraordinary; as more than usually good or bad; and therefore as desirable, lovely, demanding reverence; or the reverse of these. ADMIRINGLY. In 2 Thess. c. i., cited below," Admired" is in Wiclif" to be maad wonderful;" in Bible, London, 1539, and Geneva, 1561, “to be come maruellous." Ye haue in his exauple [Hy. 8] suche a marke set vp vnto you, as without the sweat and laboures of Hercules, ye shall not bee hable to clyme vnto. Ye must surmount & passe a kyng whiche was in his tyme pierelesse, and a matier of publique admiracio to the vniuersall worlde. Udall. Pref. to the Kynges Maiestee. For this cause god warneth vs before (lest we taken with the admiracion of powr and good successe) or els broken wth trouble and persecucion fall from the gospell vnto these prosperosly puft vp princes and prelatis. Exposicion of Daniel, by Geo. Joye, fo. 122, c. i. Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power: When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe. 2 Thess. c. i. v. 9, 10. LA. You haue displac'd the mirth, GUI. Do not play in wench-like words with that Id. Cymbeline, fo. 389, act iv. sc. 2. LAF. He was excellent indeed, madam, the king Id. All's Well, fo. 230, acti. sc. 1. Who with right humble thanks him goodly greeting, Spenser's Faerie Queene, book v. canto x. Milton's Paradise Lost, book ii. All Heaven, what this might mean, and whither tend, Id. book iii. It is very remarkable to see the manufactures in England, not knowing whether more to admire the rarity or variety thereof. Fuller's Worthies. Then on th' unwholesome earth he gasping lies, Till death shuts up those self-admiring eyes. Addison's Story of Narcissus. Contempt and admiration are equally incident to narrow minds. Adventurer, No. 67. Such is the frame and temper of our minds, that nothing strikes us with greater admiration than a man intrepid in the midst of misfortunes. Bolingbroke's Reflections upon Exile. Enthusiastick admiration seldom promotes knowledge. Sir Joshua Reynolds' Discourses. Of every large composition, even of those which are most admired, a great part may be truly said to be common-place. ld. As you have not been taught to flatter us, do not learn to flatter yourselves. We have endeavoured to lead you to the admiration of nothing but what is truly admirable. Id. Our holy religion wants only to be well considered, to make it esteemed and admired by all who have honest hearts and sound understandings. Pearce's Sermons. How wonderfull are the works of nature! how admirable her con. trivance in all parts of this our human machine! exceeding the skill of man to find out, the utmost stretch of our understanding to comprehend ! Tucker's Light of Nature. Balbus the stoic, in Cicero's second book concerning the nature of the gods, discourses admirably on the order and harmony of the universe, and the use and beauty of the parts that compose it. Farmer on Miracles. The admirers of this great poet have most reason to complain when he approaches nearest to his highest excellence, and seems fully resolved to sink them in dejection, and mollify them with tender emotions by the fall of greatness, the danger of innocence, or the crosses of love. Johnson's Preface to Shakespeare. ADMIRATION, note of, a grammatical mark or sign (!) of something to be admired or wondered at. ADMIT, v. ADMIS'SIBLE, ADMISSIBLY, ADMISSION, ADMIT TABLE, ADMITTANCE, ADMITTER. Ad: mitto. To let into. To give leave to enter; to grant, allow, or suffer to be brought in or forward. To admit an opinion, or argument, is to allow, concede, grant the force of it; to assent to it. Tho Nisus and Eurialus bayth twane, Ascaneus seand first thare haisty way Douglas, b. ix. p. 283. There were but two of these at once in the king's time, whereof the one was styled the principal secretary, the other the secretary of estate. Some have said that the first in the senioritie of admition was accounted the principall; but the exceptions in this kind being as many as the regularities; their chiefnesse was penès Regis arbitrium. Fuller's Worthies. I have not wittingly, willingly, or wilfully, shut the dore against any worthy person which offered to enter into my knowledge; nor was my prejudice the porter in this kind, to exclude any (of what perswasion soever) out of my book who brought merit for their admission. Id. Blindness being a privative term unto sight, this appellation is not admittable in propriety of speech, and will overthrow the doctrine of privations. Brown's Vulgar Errours. Suppose that this supposition were admissible, this would not any way be inconsistent with the eternity of the divine nature and essence. ADMITTENDO Clerico, a writ granted to any one who ADM has established his right of presentation, against the Ad: misca, from the AS. Miscan. My son Pallas, this zoung lusty syre, Douglas, b. viii. p. 260. Though many waies may be found to light this powder, yet is there none I know to make a strong and vigorous powder of saltpeter; without the admixtion of sulphur. Brown's Vulgar Errours. The corruption of philosophy, from the admixture of superstition and theology, is much more extensive and pernicious, either to whole bodies of philosophy, or their parts. Bacon. On the Different Philosophical Theories. Possibly all metals may be of one species, and the diversity may proceed from the admixture of different bodies with the principles of the metal. Ray's Wisdom of God in the Creation. ADMONISH, v. ADMONITION, to exhort, to reprove. Ad: moneo. In Wiclif we find Moneste, where the C. version has Admonish, Exhort. The word Monish, without the preposition ad, is common in all its parts with the elder writers. To advise; to call or bring to mind; to warn, to apprize, God sayth: Love thy neighbour as thyself; that is to say, to salvation both of lif and soule. And moreover thou shalt love him in word, and in benigne amonesting and chastising, and comfort him in his anoyes, and praye for him with all thy herte. Id. Personnes Tale, v. 2. p. 325. And nedeth it (qd. I) of rehearsing, or of amonicion, & sheweth it not inough by himself, the sharpness yt wexeth wood against Id. 1st Booke of Boccius, fo. 212. c. iv. mee. So that if they wil not at ye wholsome admonishmets of his word repent and amend their olde conuersation, that than they should be condemned by the same for their wilful contempt. Bale. Image of Bothe Churches, Ecc. v. RICH. And thou a lunaticke leane-witted foole, Shak. Rich. II. fo. 29. act ii. sc. 1. AD NI Ambition of great and famous auditories, I leave to those whose better gifts and inward endowments are admonitioners unto them, of the great good they can do, or otherwise thirst after popular applause. Hales's Golden Remains. Friendly admonition is very laudable, and of rare use; but being upon all occasions immoderately used, or in publick society so as to encroach upon modesty, or endamage reputation; or when the person admonished is otherwise employed, and attent upon his business; or being delivered in an imperiously-insulting way, or in harsh oppro brious language; it becomes unsavoury and odious, and both in shew and effect resembles a froward malicious exceptiousness. Barrow's Sermons. Moss, which is an adnascent plant, is to be rubbed and scraped ADOM. off with some instrument of wood. Evelyn's Sylva. The parts appertaining to the bones, which stand out at a distance from their bodies, are either the adnate or the enate parts. Smith's Old Age. ADNATA, in Anatomy, one of the coats of the eye, called also conjunctiva and albuginea. ADNATA is also used for hair or wool, which grows upon animals or vegetables, whether naturally or accidentally. ADNATUM Folium, in Botany, is used to express the adherence of the disk of a leaf to the stem of a plant. ADNOUN, ADNOMEN, or ADNAME, a term which has been used by grammarians to express what we more usually call an adjective. ADO', n. See Do. And when he was come in, he saith unto them, why make ye this ado, and weep? the damsel is not dead, but sleepeth. Mark, chap. v. verse 39. FAC. The Doctor is within, a moving for you; (I have had the most adoe to winne him to it). Jonson's Alchemist, act iii. sc. 4. A man that is busy and inquisitive is commonly envious; for to know much of other men's matters cannot be, because all that ado may concern his own estate. Bacon's Essay on Envy. For my own particular, the more I ruminate upon it [the martyrdom of Charles], the more it astonishes my imagination, and shaketh all the cells of my brain; so that sometimes I struggle with my faith,. and have much ado to believe it yet. Howell's Letters. But huswifing the little Heaven had lent, Dryden's Cock and the Foz. Just so it is with young people, in respect of counsel and instruction; when the father, or the minister, or some wise and understanding man doth sometimes admonish, sometimes chide and reprove, sometimes instruct, they are apt to wonder, why so much ado, and what they mean. ADOLESCENCE, n. ADOLESCENCY. Hale's Contemplations. Ad: oleo, olesco. To grow up to. The growing up to manhood, or maturity. The Romans usually reckoned ADOLESCENCE from 12 to 25 in boys; and to 21 in girls, &c. Among their writers, however, juvenis and adolescens are frequently used indifferently for any person under 45 years. ADOLLAM, or ADULLAM, in Scripture Geography, a town belonging to the tribe of Judah, near which was a celebrated retreat of David's. (1 Sam. xxii. 1.) ADOM, a small state or principality of the gold coast in Africa, extending in a direct line along the river Sehama. It is a populous, rich, and fertile country, abounding with corn and fruits, and feeding a great number of animals, both domestic and wild. It contains many fine islands covered with populous villages. ADONAI, one of the names of God, in the Old Testament, and properly signifying my lords,' in the plural number; as Adoni is my lord,' in the singular. The Jews, who either out of respect, or superstition, do not pronounce the name of Jehovah, read Adonai, in the room of it, as often as they meet with Jehovah in the Hebrew text. This superstition originated after the Babylonish captivity. ADONIA, feasts of antiquity, in honour of Venus, and in memory of Adonis; first celebrated at Byblos, in Phoenicia. They were observed with great solemnity by most nations; Greeks, Lycians, Syrians, Egyptians, &c.; and from Syria, they are supposed to have passed into India. The Adonia generally lasted two days; on the first of which certain images of Venus and Adonis were carried about, with all the pomp and ceremonies practised at funerals: the women wept, tore their hair, beat their breasts, &c. imitating the cries and lamentations of Venus for the death of her paramour. This mourning was called Adwriaeμoç. The second day was devoted to joy. In some towns of Greece and Egypt they lasted seven or eight days, one half of the time being spent in lamentation, and the other in rejoicing. Among the Egyptians, royal personages assisted in the procession. Lucian tells us, that the women of Alexandria enclosed a letter annually, at the time of this feast, to the women of Byblos, to inform them that Adonis, whom they imagined lost, was discovered; that this letter, being committed in a box of papyrus to the waves of the sea, reached Byblos in safety at the end of seven days, when the women of that place ceased their mourning. St. Cyril also relates this story. According to Meursius, the two offices of mourning and rejoicing made two distinct feasts, which were held at different times of the year, the one six months after the other; Adonis being supposed to pass half the year with Proserpine, and half with Venus.-The Egyptian Adonia are said to have been held in memory of the death of Osiris; others say of his sickness and recovery. Bishop Patrick refers their origin to the slaughter of the first born in the time of Moses. The time of the celebration of these feasts was accounted extremely unlucky. ADONIS, son of Cynaras, king of Cyprus, by his own daughter. The goddess Venus became enamoured of his beauty, and committed the care of his education to Proserpine, who refused to restore him. Jupiter decided the dispute by decreeing that he should live one third of the year with each of these goddesses and during the other, be at his own disposal: but Adonis gave two thirds of his time to Venus, with whom he was captivated; upon which Diana took offence, and sent a wild boar to destroy him, when he was turned into a flower of a blood colour, supposed to be the anemone. Venus became inconsolable; and her grief has been perpetuated in most nations by anniversary ceremonies. The Vulgate of Ezekiel, viii. 14. says, that this prophet saw women sitting in the temple, and weeping for Adonis: but, by the Hebrew text, they are said to weep for Thammuz, or the hidden one. Among the Egyptians, Adonis was adored under the name ADOP of Osiris, the husband of Isis. But he was some- ADONI times called by the name of Ammuz, or Thammuz, the concealed, to denote, probably, says Calmet, his death or burial. The Hebrews, in derision, call him sometimes the dead, (Psal. cvi. 28. and Lev. xix. 28.) because they wept for him, and represented him as one dead in his coffin; and at other times, they call him the image of jealousy, (Ezek. viii. 3. 5.) because he was the object of the god Mars' jealousy. Syrians, Phoenicians, and Cyprians, called him Adonis; and F. Calmet is of opinion, that the Ammonites, and Moabites gave him the name of Baal-peor. Bryant supposes that the Canaanites worshipped the Sun, their chief deity, under this title. See CALMET'S DICTIONARY, BRYANT'S MYTHOLOGY, &C. The ADONIS, Adonius, a river of Phoenicia, rising in Mount Lebanon, and falling into the sea, after a north-west course, at Byblos. It is called by the Turks Obrakim Bassa. The women yearly lamented the death of Adonis, when, in flood time, this river rolled down a red earth, which tinged its waters, and was deemed to be the wound of Adonis bleeding afresh. ADONIS, Bird's eye, or Pheasant's eye, in Botany, a genus of the class Polyandria; order, Polygynia. ADONISTS, a party among theological critics, who maintain, that the vowel points, usually annexed to the consonants of the Hebrew word Jehovah, neither originally belonged to it, nor express the true pronunciation; but are the points, belonging to the words Adonai and Elohim, applied to the consonants of the ineffable name Jehovah, to warn the readers, that instead of this word, which the Jews were forbidden to pronounce, they are always to read Adonai. They are opposed to the Jehovists: of whom are Drusius, Capellus, Buxtorf, Alting, and Reland. ADOORS', adv. At door, or at the door. Beaumont and Fletcher's Woman Pleased, act iv. sc. 1. For when Rene, duke of Angeou, last kyng of Scicile, departed without any heire male of hys wyfe lawfully begotten, he did adopt to his heyre of all his realmes and dominios, Lewes the XI: father to ye III kyng Charles. Hall, p. 457. And we wite, that ech creature sorowith and traueilith with peyne til ghit, and not oonli it, but also we ussilf that han the firste fruytis of the spyryt. and we ussilf sorowen withynne us for the adopcioun of goddis sones abidinge the aghen biyng of oure bodi. Wiclif. Romayns, ch. viii, For we knowe that euery creature groneth with vs also, and tramayleth in payne euen vnto thys tyme. Not onely it, but we also which haue ye fyrst frutes of the spryte, morne in oure selues also, and wayte for the adopcyon (of the chyldren of God) euen the delyuerauce of oure bodyes. Bible, 1539. Ib. |