Adite. See Ad.
Aditha'im (Heb. Aditha'yim, D'1^'1'!", double prey or double ornament; Sept. 'ASiaSaift, but some copies omit; Vulg. Adithaim), a town in the plain of Judah, mentioned between Sharaim and Gederah (Josh, xv, 36). Eusebius (Onomast. s. v.) mentions two places of the name of Adatha ('Ac?nSrr, Jerome, Aditha and Adia), one near Gaza, and the other near Diospolis (Lydda) ; the former being commonlv supposed to be the same with Adithaim, and the latter with Hadid; and probably corresponding respectively to the two places called Adida (q. v.) by Josephus. Schwarz (Palest, p. 102) accordingly thinks that Adithaim is represented by the modern village Eddis, 5 Eng. miles east of Gaza (comp. Robinson's Researches, ii, 370 sq.); but this is too far from the associated localities of the same group [see Tribe], which require a position not far from Moneisin, a village with traces of antiquity, about 5 miles south of Ekron (Van de Velde, Memoir, p. 114).
Adjuration (the verb is expressed by fl^N, alah' ', in Hiph., to cause to swear, as rendered in 1 Kings viii, 31 ; 2 Chron. vi, 22 ; also S31U, shaba' , in Hiph., to make sicear, or charge with an oath, as often ren- dered ; Gr. t£op/c<'i'(t>, to bind by oath), a solemn act or appeal, whereby one man, usually a person vested with natural or official authority, imposes upon anoth- er the obligation of speaking or acting as if under the solemnity of an oath (1 Sam. xiv, 24; Josh, vi, 26; 1 Kings xxii, 16 ; 2 Chron. xviii, 15). See Swear.
(1.) A striking example of this occurs in the N. T., where the high-priest calls upon Christ, in the presence of the Sanhedrim, to avow his character as the Messiah (Matt, xxvi, 63 ; Mark v, 7 ; see Acts xix, 13 ; comp. 1 Thess. v, 27). An oath, although thus imposed upon one without his consent, was not only solemn, but binding in the highest degree ; and when con- nected with a question, an answer appears to have been compulsory, and, if false, chargeable with per- jury. Thus our Saviour, who had previously dis- dained or declined to reply to the charges brought against him, now could not avoid an answer. 1 ho impropriety, however, of thus extorting truth must be evident ; and in the case of Christ it was an outrage against the commonest principle of judicial fairness, by which a prisoner is never to be put in a position to inculpate himself. But the hierarchy, having failed to elicit any reliable evidence that would condemn Jesus, at last resorted to this base method of compel- ling him to declare his Messiahship, -with a view to convict him upon his own testimony. See Jr.srs.
(2.) The term also occurs (Acts xix, 13) with refer- ence to the expulsion of daemons. See Exorcist.
(3.) In the Roman Church, an act by means of which the name of God, or some other holy thing, is made use of, in order to induce any one to do what is required of him. An adjuration is said to be earpresa when the majesty of God, or any one of his attributes, is interposed for the purpose, as adjurn ti per l)i urn vivum; implicit, when not the majesty of Cod, but any one of his more marked productions is made use of, as adjuro te per Erangelium Christi. See Oath.
Ad'la'i (Heb. Au'ay', ^"}2,just; Sept. 'ASat v. r.
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'AB\i and 'ASXai, Vulg. AM), the father of Shaphat, which latter was herdsman under Uavid (1 Chron. xxvii, 29). B.C. ante 1014.
Ad'mah (Heb. Admak', tV2*}i<, property earth; Sept. 'ASapa, but 'Addfia in Hos.), one of the five cities in the vale of Siddim (Gen. x, 19), which had a king of its own (Gen. xiv, 2, 8). It was destroyed along with Sodom and Gomorrah (Gen. xix, 24 ; Deut. xxix, 23 ; Hos. xi, 8). Near the south-west end of the Dead Sea, M. De Saulcy passed through a place mark- ed with the effects of volcanic agency, called et Thce- mah, where his guides assured him were ruins of a city anciently overthrown by the Almighty {Narra- tive, i, 425) ; but its identification with Admah needs corroboration. Reland (Palccst. p. 545) is inclined to infer, from the constant order of the names, that it was situated between Gomorrah and Zeboim ; but even these sites are so uncertain that we can only con- jecture the locality of Admah somewhere near the middle of the southern end of the Dead Sea. See Sodoji.
Ad'matha (Heb. Admatha', xr^X, prob. from Persic thma, "the Highest," and ta-data, "given;" i. q. Theodore; Sept. 'ASfiaSd, but most copies omit; Vulg. Admatha), the third named of the seven princes or courtiers of Xerxes (Esth. i, 14), B.C. 483.
Admedera, a town, according to the Peutinger Table, on the route from Damascus to Palmyra ; lo- cated by Ritter (Erdk. xvii, 1457) at Kuteifeh, but, according to Van de Velde {Memoir, p. 282), to be found at the present Jubb-Adin, between Yabrud (Je- bruda) and Saidnaya.
Admission, (1) a term in use among English and Scotch Presbyterians, to denote the service and act b}- which a minister is publicly introduced into a new charge. (2.) In the Church of England, when the bishop accepts a candidate presented for a benefice as sufficient, he is said to admit him. The canon and common law allow the bishop twenty-eight da)-s after presentment, during which to examine him and in- quire into his life and doctrine. A bishop may refuse to admit the candidate presented on account of per- jury, schism, heresy, or any other crime on account of which he might be deprived. Bastardy, without a dispensation, is a just cause of refusal, but not so the fact of the person presented being the son of the last incumbent — the canon ne filins succedat patri not having been received in England ; still, if the bishop refuse on this account, and the patron thereupon pre- sent another, the former nominee has no remed)'. When the bishop refuses to admit he is bound, within a reasonable period, to send notice to the lay patron in person.