adhibit
Americanverb (used with object)
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to take or let in; admit.
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to use or apply.
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to attach.
verb
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to administer or apply
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to affix; attach
Other Word Forms
- adhibition noun
Etymology
Origin of adhibit
1520–30; < Latin adhibitus brought (past participle of adhibēre to bring to), equivalent to ad- ad- + -hibi- (combining form of habēre to hold, have) + -tus past participle suffix
Example Sentences
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Adhibit, ad-hib′it, v.t. to apply to: to use: to attach: to admit: to devote to: to administer.—n.
From Project Gutenberg
Illa sunt similia; hebes acies est cuipiam oculorum: corpore alius languescit: hi curatione adhibit� levantur in dies: alter valet plus quotidie: alter videt.
From Project Gutenberg
It now remained to adhibit the seal of permanency to the fait accompli.
From Project Gutenberg
It is not quite clear that the remission of the stamp-duty would be an entire gain; for a postage of a penny in sending to second, third, and fourth readers—each fresh hand requiring to adhibit a fresh postage label—might come to a very much more severe tax than the existing stamp.
From Project Gutenberg
“Then this is a sequitur,” said the squire: “your daughter and Mr Escot are necessitated to love one another; and, unless you feel necessitated to adhibit your consent, they will feel necessitated to dispense with it; since it does appear to moral and political economists to be essentially inherent in the eternal fitness of things.”
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