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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.
Burnt; scorched; become dry by heat; hot and fiery.
Definition 2024
adust
adust
English
Adjective
adust (comparative more adust, superlative most adust)
- (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 […].
- 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, I.1:
- (now rare) Burnt or having a scorched color. [from 15th c.]