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adjective
adust  adj.  
1.
Inflamed or scorched; dried or darkened by heat. "The Libyan air adust."
2.
Sunburnt. (archaic) "A tall, thin man, of an adust complexion."
3.
(Med.) Looking or acting depressed; atrabilious; gloomy. (archaic)






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"Adust" Quotes from Famous Books



... in front advanced, The brandished sword of God before them blazed, Fierce as a comet; which with torrid heat, And vapour as the Lybian air adust Began to parch that ...
— The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' • Thomas Orchard

... plain spaces. The most ugly of all imaginable rooms, which is probably the parlour of a farm-house arrayed for those whom Americans call summer-boarders, is beset with flowers. It blooms, a dry, woollen, papery, cast-iron garden. The floor flourishes with blossoms adust, poorly conventionalised into a kind of order; the table-cover is ablaze with a more realistic florescence; the wall-paper is set with bunches; the rigid machine-lace curtain is all of roses and lilies in its very construction, over ...
— The Rhythm of Life • Alice Meynell



Words linked to "Adust" :   parched, archaicism, sunbaked, archaism, dry, baked



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