adust adjective & verb.
[ǝ'dʌst] arch. LME.[French aduste or Latin adustus pa. pple of adurere, from ad AD- + urere burn.]A. adjective.
1. Orig. (
Medicine), exhibiting or pertaining to a supposed hot, dry, atrabilious quality of the body and its humours. Now
obsolete exc. in
gen. sense, sallow, melancholic.
LME.choler adust: see
CHOLER 2.
■ Pope No meagre muse-rid mope adust and thin.2. Scorched; calcined; parched.
LME.■ E. Blunden So adust, red-dry / the rock-drift soil was.3. Brown, as if scorched; sunburnt.
L16.■ Smollett Arabia's scorching sands he crossed..Conductor of her Tribes adust.b. verb trans. Scorch, dry up with heat. Chiefly as
adusted ppl adjective. Long
arch. rare.
LME. ■ adustion noun the action of scorching or parching; the state of being scorched or parched:
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