[Adolph of Nassau], Kaiser from 1291 to 1298, "a stalwart but necessitous Herr" Carlyle calls him; seems to have been under the pay of Edward Longshanks.
[Adolphus, John], an able London barrister in criminal cases, and a voluminous historical writer (1766-1845).
[Adona`i], the name used by the Jews for God instead of Jehovah, too sacred to be pronounced.
[Adona`is], Shelley's name for Keats.
[Ado`nis], a beautiful youth beloved by Aphrodité (Venus), but mortally wounded by a boar and changed by her into a flower the colour of his blood, by sprinkling nectar on his body.
[Adoptionists], heretics who in the 8th century maintained that Christ was the son of God, not by birth, but by adoption, and as being one with Him in character and will.
[Ador`no], an illustrious plebeian family in Genoa, of the Ghibelline party, several of whom were Doges of the republic.
[Adour], a river of France, rising in the Pyrenees and falling into the Bay of Biscay.
[Adowa`], a highland town in Abyssinia, and chief entrepôt of trade.
[Adras`tus], a king of Argos, the one survivor of the first expedition of the Seven against Thebes, who died of grief when his son fell in the second.