in ancient customs, denotes a servant of the king. The word is also written adelscatche, and adelscalus. It is compounded of the German adel, or edel, noble, and scale, servant. Among the Bavarians, adelocates appear to have been the same with royal thanes among the Saxons, and those called ministri regis in ancient charters.

ADELO, an island in Sweden, in the same lake in which the city of Stockholm is built, a little to the west of Munso, containing a parish of the same name.