[Advocate, Lord], chief counsel for the Crown in Scotland, public prosecutor of crimes, and a member of the administration in power.
[Advocates, Faculty of], body of lawyers qualified to plead at the Scottish bar.
[Advocates' Library], a library belonging to the Faculty of Advocates in Edinburgh, founded in 1632; it alone of Scotch libraries still holds the privilege of receiving a copy of every book entered at Stationers' Hall.
[Advocatus diaboli], the devil's advocate, a functionary in the Roman Catholic Church appointed to show reason against a proposed canonization.
[Æacus], a Greek king renowned as an administrator of distributive justice, after death appointed one of the three judges in Hades. See [Minos] and [Rhadamanthus].
[Ædiles], magistrates of ancient Rome who had charge of the public buildings and public structures generally.
[Æe`tis], king of Colchis and father of Medea.
[Æge`an Sea], the Archipelago.
[Ægeus], the father of Theseus, who threw himself into the Ægean Sea, so called after him, in the mistaken belief that his son, who had been to slay the Minotaur, had been slain by him.
[Ægi`na], an island 20 m. SW. of Athens, in a gulf of the same name.