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.) 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.")