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Definition of Adust
1. Adjective. Dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight. "Sunbaked salt flats"
2. Adjective. Burned brown by the sun. "Of an adust complexion"
Definition of Adust
1. a. Inflamed or scorched; fiery.
Definition of Adust
1. Adjective. (medicine historical) Describing a bodily humour which is abnormally dark or over-concentrated, associated with various states of discomfort or illness (specifically being too hot or dry). (Chiefly as postmodifier.) (defdate from 15th c.) ¹
2. Adjective. (rare) Burnt or having a scorched color. (defdate from 15th c.) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Adust
1. scorched [adj]
Medical Definition of Adust
1.
1. Inflamed or scorched; fiery. "The Libyan air adust."
2. Looking as if or scorched; sunburnt. "A tall, thin man, of an adust complexion." (Sir W. Scott)
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Adust
Literary usage of Adust
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it is with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1883)
"From melancholy adust ... and those serous matters being thick- ened become
phlegm, and phlegm degenerates into choler, choler adust becomes ..."
2. A Concordance to the Works of Alexander Popeby Edwin Abbott by Edwin Abbott (1875)
"34 adust. Xo meagre, muse-rid mope, a. and thin D. ii. -,7 The same a. complexion has
impell'd Л/.£. i. ..."
3. The book of quinte essence or the fifth being by Frederick James Furnivall, Hermes, Trismegistus Hermes (1866)
"... reed coler adust, and of This fever J • J comes of cho. blood adust, ...
are in- jo flamed. banne blood is adust / And if he seib bat he seeb alie bese ..."
4. The London Medical Gazette (1833)
"improper in men of an adust or bilious temperament. They sometimes bring on a
filthy satyriasis, and bloody urine. They are most dangerous in tiie summer ..."
5. The Romans of Partenay, Or of Lusignen: Otherwise Known as the Tale of Melusine by Couldrette, Walter William Skeat (1866)
"... of rh«- blood ndust, and of blak coler adust, ... banne blood is adust / And
if he seib bat he seeb alle bese .iij. bingis. ..."
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