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Adoˊnia
Adoˊnia Festivals celebrated in Honour of Adonis; wherein the Women imitated the Lamentation of Venus, for the Death of Adonis; and when they were tired with this, they changed their Notes, sung his Praises, and made Rejoycings, as if he were raised
to Life again.
Definition taken from
The Universal Etymological Dictionary,
edited by Nathan Bailey (1736)
Adoˊlescence, or Ado’lescency *
Adventitious Glandules [Anatomy]