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Webster 1913 Edition


adust

a-dust′

(ă-dŭst′)
,
Adj.
[L.
adustus
, p. p. of
adurere
: cf. F.
aduste
.]
1.
Inflamed or scorched; dried or darkened by heat.
“The Libyan air adust.”
Milton.
AS
2.
Sunburnt.
[archaic]
AS
A tall, thin man, of an
adust
complexion.
Sir W. Scott.
3.
(Med.)
Looking or acting depressed; atrabilious; gloomy.
[archaic]
AS

Webster 1828 Edition


Adust

ADUST'

,
Adj.
[L. adustus, burnt, the participle of aduro, to burn.]
Burnt; scorched; become dry by heat; hot and fiery.

Definition 2024


adust

adust

English

Adjective

adust (comparative more adust, superlative most adust)

  1. (medicine, historical, usually postpositive) 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). [from 15th c.]
    • 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, I.1:
      But, Wecker says, from melancholy adust arises one kind; from choler another, which is most brutish; from phlegm another, which is dull; and from blood another, which is the best.
    • 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, VI.12:
      so in fevers and hot distempers from choler adust is caused a blackness in our tongues, teeth and excretions […].
  2. (now rare) Burnt or having a scorched color. [from 15th c.]

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