ADAM’IDA, a planet on which reside the unborn spirits of saints, martyrs, and believers.  U’riel, the angel of the sun, was ordered at the crucifixion to interpose this planet between the sun and the earth, so as to produce a total eclipse.

Adamida, in obedience to the divine command, flew amidst overwhelming storms, rushing clouds, falling mountains, and swelling seas.  Uriel stood on the pole of the star, but so lost in deep contemplation on Golgotha, that he heard not the wild uproar.  On coming to the region of the sun, Adamida slackened her course, and advancing before the sun, covered its face and intercepted all its rays.—­Klopstock, The Messiah, viii. (1771).

ADAMS (John), one of the mutineers of the Bounty (1790), who settled in Tahiti.  In 1814 he was discovered as the patriarch of a colony, brought up with a high sense of religion and strict regard to morals.  In 1839 the colony was voluntarily placed under the protection of the British Government.

Adams (Parson), the beau-ideal of a simple-minded, benevolent, but eccentric country clergyman, of unswerving integrity, solid learning, and genuine piety; bold as a lion in the cause of truth, but modest as a girl in all personal matters; wholly ignorant of the world, being “in it but not of of it.”—­Fielding, Joseph Andrews (1742).

His learning, his simplicity, his evangelical purity of mind are so admirably mingled with pedantry, absence of mind, and the habit of athletic ... exercise ... that he may be safely termed one of the richest productions of the muse of fiction.  Like Don Quixote, parson Adams is beaten a little too much and too often, but the cudgel lights upon his shoulders ... without the slightest stain to his reputation.—­Sir W. Scott.

AD’DISON OF THE NORTH, Henry Mackenzie, author of The Man of Feeling (1745-1831).

ADELAIDE, daughter of the count of Narbonne, in love with Theodore.  She is killed by her father in mistake for another.—­Robt.  Jephson, Count of Narbonne (1782).

ADELAIDE FISHER, daughter-in-law of Grandpa and Grandma Fisher in Sallie Pratt McLean Greene’s Cape Cod Folks.  She has a sweet voice and an edged temper, and it would seem from certain cynical remarks of her own, and Grandma’s “Thar, daughter, I wouldn’t mind!” has a history she does not care to reveal (1881).

ADELAIDE YATES, the wife of Steve Yates and mother of Little Moses in Charles Egbert Craddock’s In the “Stranger People’s” Country.  Her husband has been seized and detained by the “moonshiners” in the mountains, and the impression is that he has wilfully deserted her.  She cannot discredit it, but “She’s goin’ ter stay thar in her cabin an’ wait fur him,” said Mrs. Pettengill.  “Sorter seems de-stressin’, I do declar’.  A purty, young, good, r’ligious ‘oman a-settin’ herself ter spen’ a empty life a-waitin’ fur Steve Yates ter kum back!” (1890.)