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. ADONAIS, title of Percy Bysshe Shelley's elegy upon John Keats, written in 1821. A'DONBEC EL HAKIM, the physician, a disguise assumed by Saladin, who visits sir Kenneth's sick squire, and cures him of a fever.--Sir W. Scott, _The Talisman_ (time, Richard I.). ADO'NIS, a beautiful youth, beloved by Venus and Proser'pina, who quarrelled about the possession of him. Jupiter, to settle the dispute, decided that the boy should spend six months with Venus in the upper world and six with Proserpina in the lower. Adonis was gored to death by a wild boar in a hunt. Shakespeare has a poem called _Venus and Adonis_. Shelley calls his elegy on the poet Keats _Adona'is_, under the idea that the untimely death of Keats resembled that of Adonis. (_Adonis_ is an allegory of the sun, which is six months north of the horizon, and six months south. Thammuz is the same as Adonis, and so is Osiris). ADONIRAM PENN, the obstinate and well-to-do farmer in Mary E. Wilkins's _Revolt of "Mother_". He persists in building a new barn which the cattle do not need instead of the much-needed dwelling for his family. In his absence, "Mother," who was wont to "stand before her husband in the humble fashion of a Scripture woman," moves household and furniture into the commodious barn. "Adoniram was like a fortress whose walls had no active resistance, and went down the instant the right besieging tools were used" (1890). AD'ORAM, a seraph, who had charge of James the son of Alphe'us.--Klopstock, _The Messiah_, iii. (1748).