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| 1. | dried or darkened as by heat. |
| 2. | burned; scorched. |
| 3. | Archaic. gloomy in appearance or mood. |
[Origin: 1400–50; late ME < L adustus (ptp. of adūrere), equiv. to ad- ad- + us- (base of ūrere to burn) + -tus ptp. suffix
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adj.
[Middle English, from Latin adustus, past participle of adūrere, to set fire to : ad-, ad- + ūrere, to burn.] |
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| adust | |
adjective | |
| 1. | dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight; "a vast desert all adust"; "land lying baked in the heat"; "parched soil"; "the earth was scorched and bare"; "sunbaked salt flats" |
| 2. | burned brown by the sun; "of an adust complexion"- Sir Walter Scott |
| WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University. |
Adust
A*dust"\, a. [L. adustus, p. p. of adurere: cf. F. aduste.]1. Inflamed or scorched; fiery. "The Libyan air adust." --Milton. 2. Looking as if or scorched; sunburnt. A tall, thin man, of an adust complexion. --Sir W. Scott. 3. (Med.) Having much heat in the constitution and little serum in the blood. [Obs.] Hence: Atrabilious; sallow; gloomy.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
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