ad vitam aut culpam (L.), for life or till fault—i.e. till some misconduct be proved.

ad vivum (L.), to the life, like-life.

advocatus diaboli (L.), devil's advocate, a person appointed to contest before the papal court the claims of a candidate for canonisation; hence any adverse critic.

ægrescitque medendo (L.), and he becomes worse from the very remedies used.

ægri somnia (L.), a sick man's dreams.

A.E.I.O.U. (Austriæ est imperare orbi universo), it is Austria's part to command the whole globe.

Æolus, Eolus (L.), the god of the winds: a kind of ventilator.

æquabiliter et diligenter (L.), equably and diligently.

æquam memento rebus in arduis servare mentem (L.), remember to keep a calm mind in difficulties.

æquanimiter (L.), composedly.