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v. i. To relinquish or renounce a throne, or other high office or dignity. [ 1913 Webster ]

Though a king may abdicate for his own person, he cannot abdicate for the monarchy. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. abdicatio: cf. F. abdication. ] The act of abdicating; the renunciation of a high office, dignity, or trust, by its holder; commonly the voluntary renunciation of sovereign power; as, abdication of the throne, government, power, authority. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. abdicativus. ] Causing, or implying, abdication. [ R. ] Bailey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who abdicates. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. aberuncare, for aberruncare. See Averruncate. ] To weed out. [ Obs. ] Bailey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A weeding machine. [ 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 ]

a. [ L. acatalecticus, Gr. &unr_;, not defective at the end; 'a priv. + &unr_; to cease. ] (Pros.) Not defective; complete; as, an acatalectic verse. -- n. A verse which has the complete number of feet and syllables. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;; 'a priv. + &unr_; to seize, comprehend. ] Incomprehensibility of things; the doctrine held by the ancient Skeptic philosophers, that human knowledge never amounts to certainty, but only to probability. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_;. ] Incapable of being comprehended; incomprehensible. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Caterer. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. See Cates. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ It., from acciaccare to crush. ] (Mus.) A short grace note, one semitone below the note to which it is prefixed; -- used especially in organ music. Now used as equivalent to the short appoggiatura. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of making acetous or sour; the process of converting, or of becoming converted, into vinegar. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. acidification. ] The act or process of acidifying, or changing into an acid. [ 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 ]

a. Adjudicating. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who adjudicates. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Adjudication. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Additional signification. [ R. ] Tooke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. avocat, avocet, OF. avocat, fr. L. advocatus, one summoned or called to another; properly the p. p. of advocare to call to, call to one's aid; ad + vocare to call. See Advowee, Avowee, Vocal. ] 1. One who pleads the cause of another. Specifically: One who pleads the cause of another before a tribunal or judicial court; a counselor. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In the English and American Law, advocate is the same as “counsel, ” “counselor, ” or “barrister.” In the civil and ecclesiastical courts, the term signifies the same as “counsel” at the common law. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who defends, vindicates, or espouses any cause by argument; a pleader; as, an advocate of free trade, an advocate of truth. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Christ, considered as an intercessor. [ 1913 Webster ]

We have an Advocate with the Father. 1 John ii. 1. [ 1913 Webster ]

Faculty of advocates (Scot.), the Scottish bar in Edinburgh. --
Lord advocate (Scot.), the public prosecutor of crimes, and principal crown lawyer. --
Judge advocate. See under Judge. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Advocated p. pr. & vb. n. Advocating ] [ See Advocate, n., Advoke, Avow. ] To plead in favor of; to defend by argument, before a tribunal or the public; to support, vindicate, or recommend publicly. [ 1913 Webster ]

To advocate the cause of thy client. Bp. Sanderson (1624). [ 1913 Webster ]

This is the only thing distinct and sensible, that has been advocated. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

Eminent orators were engaged to advocate his cause. Mitford. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To act as advocate. [ Obs. ] Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Office or duty of an advocate. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. advocatio: cf. OF. avocation. See Advowson. ] 1. The act of advocating or pleading; plea; advocacy. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The holy Jesus . . . sits in heaven in a perpetual advocation for us. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Advowson. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The donations or advocations of church livings. Sanderson. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Scots Law) The process of removing a cause from an inferior court to the supreme court. Bell. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to an advocate. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. aérification. See A&unr_;rify. ] 1. The act of combining air with another substance, or the state of being filled with air. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act of becoming aërified, or of changing from a solid or liquid form into an aëriform state; the state of being aëriform. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. affricatus, p. p. of affricare to rub against; af- = ad- + fricare to rub. ] (Phon.) A combination of a stop, or explosive, with an immediately following fricative or spirant of corresponding organic position, as pf in german Pfeffer, pepper, z (= ts) in German Zeit, time. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. The process of becoming white, or developing white patches, or streaks. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. albification: L. albus white + ficare (only in comp.), facere, to make. ] The act or process of making white. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. capable of being allocated.
Syn. -- allocable, apportionable. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. [ LL. allocatus, p. p. of allocare, fr. L. ad + locare to place. See Allow. ] 1. To distribute or assign; to allot. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To localize. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. allocatio: cf. F. allocation. ] 1. The act of putting one thing to another; a placing; disposition; arrangement. Hallam. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An allotment or apportionment; as, an allocation of shares in a company. [ 1913 Webster ]

The allocation of the particular portions of Palestine to its successive inhabitants. A. R. Stanley. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The admission of an item in an account, or an allowance made upon an account; -- a term used in the English exchequer. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ LL., it is allowed, fr. allocare to allow. ] (Law) “Allowed.” The word allocatur expresses the allowance of a proceeding, writ, order, etc., by a court, judge, or judicial officer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Altercated; p. pr. & vb. n. Altercating. ] [ L. altercatus, p. p. of altercare, altercari, fr. alter another. See Alter. ] To contend in words; to dispute with zeal, heat, or anger; to wrangle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. altercation, fr. L. altercatio. ] Warm contention in words; dispute carried on with heat or anger; controversy; wrangle; wordy contest. “Stormy altercations.” Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Altercation, Dispute, Wrangle. The term dispute is in most cases, but not necessarily, applied to a verbal contest; as, a dispute on the lawfulness of war. An altercation is an angry dispute between two parties, involving an interchange of severe language. A wrangle is a confused and noisy altercation. [ 1913 Webster ]

Their whole life was little else than a perpetual wrangling and altercation. Hakewill. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Characterized by wrangling; scolding. [ R. ] Fielding. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. amplificatus, p. p. of amplificare. ] To amplify. [ Obs. ] Bailey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. amplificatio. ] 1. The act of amplifying or enlarging in dimensions; enlargement; extension. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Rhet.) The enlarging of a simple statement by particularity of description, the use of epithets, etc., for rhetorical effect; diffuse narrative or description, or a dilating upon all the particulars of a subject. [ 1913 Webster ]

Exaggeration is a species of amplification. Brande & C. [ 1913 Webster ]

I shall summarily, without any amplification at all, show in what manner defects have been supplied. Sir J. Davies. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The matter by which a statement is amplified; as, the subject was presented without amplifications. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Amplificatory. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Serving to amplify or enlarge; amplificative. Morell. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. 'anakaqartiko`s, fr. 'anakaqai`rein to cleanse upward, i. e., by vomiting; 'ana` + kaqai`rein. See Cathartic. ] 1. (Med.) Producing vomiting or expectoration. [ archaic ] [ 1913 Webster + AS ]

n. (Med.) An anacathartic medicine; an expectorant or an emetic. [ archaic ] [ 1913 Webster + AS ]

a., Of or pertaining to a church modeled on the English Reformation; Anglican; -- sometimes restricted to the ritualistic or High Church section of the Church of England. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A member of the Church of England who contends for its catholic character; more specifically, a High Churchman. [ 1913 Webster ]