ADELINE (Lady), the wife of lord Henry Amun’deville (4 syl.), a highly educated aristocratic lady, with all the virtues and weaknesses of the upper ten.  After the parliamentary sessions this noble pair filled their house with guests, amongst which were the duchess of Fitz-Fulke, the duke of D——­, Aurora Raby, and don Juan, “the Russian envoy.”  The tale not being finished, no key to these names is given.  (For the lady’s character, see xiv. 54-56.)—­Byron, Don Juan, xiii. to the end.

AD’EMAR or ADEMA’RO, archbishop of Poggio, an ecclesiastical warrior in Tasso’s Jerusalem Delivered.—­See Dictionary of Phrase and Fable.

ADIC’IA, wife of the soldan, who incites him to distress the kingdom of Mercilla.  When Mercilla sends her ambassador, Samient, to negotiate peace, Adicia, in violation of international law, thrusts her Samient out of doors like a dog, and sets two knights upon her.  Sir Artegal comes to her rescue, attacks the two knights, and knocks one of them from his saddle with such force that he breaks his neck.  After the discomfiture of the soldan, Adicia rushes forth with a knife to stab Samient, but, being intercepted by sir Artegal, is changed into a tigress.—­Spenser, Faery Queen, v. 8 (1596).

[Illustration] The “soldan” is king Philip II. of Spain; “Mercilla” is queen Elizabeth; “Adicia” is Injustice personified, or the bigotry of popery; and “Samient” the ambassadors of Holland, who went to Philip for redress of grievances, and were most iniquitously detained by him as prisoners.

AD’ICUS, Unrighteousness personified in canto vii. of The Purple Island (1633), by Phineas Fletcher.  He has eight sons and daughters, viz., Ec’thros (hatred), Eris (variance), a daughter, Zelos (emulation), Thumos (wrath), Erith’ius (strife), Dichos’tasis (sedition), Envy, and Phon’os (murder); all fully described by the poet. (Greek, adikos, “an unjust man.”)

ADIE OF AIKENSHAW, a neighbor of the Glendinnings.—­Sir W. Scott, The Monastery (time, Elizabeth).

ADME’TUS, a king of Thessaly, husband of Alcestis.  Apollo, being condemned by Jupiter to serve a mortal for twelve months for slaying a Cyclops, entered the service of Admetus.  James R. Lowell has a poem on the subject, called The Shepherd of King Admetus (1819-1891).

AD’MIRABLE (The):  (1) Aben-Ezra, a Spanish rabbin, born at Tole’do (1119-1174). (2) James Crichton (Kry-ton), the Scotchman (1551-1573). (3) Roger Bacon, called “The Admirable Doctor” (1214-1292).

ADOLF, bishop of Cologne, was devoured by mice or rats in 1112. (See HATTO.)

AD’ONA, a seraph, the tutelar spirit of James, the “first martyr of the twelve.”—­Klopstock, The Messiah, iii. (1748).

ADONAI, the mysterious spirit of pure mind, love, and beauty that inspires Zanoni, in Bulwer’s novel of that name.