What does adust mean?
Definitions for adust
əˈdʌstadust
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Princeton's WordNet
adust, baked, parched, scorched, sunbakedadjective
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"
adustadjective
burned brown by the sun
"of an adust complexion"- Sir Walter Scott
Wiktionary
adustadjective
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). (Chiefly as postmodifier.)
adustadjective
Burnt or having a scorched color.
Etymology: From aduste, and its source, adustus, past participle of adurere.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Adustadjective
Etymology: adustus, Lat.
By this means, the virtual heat of the water will enter; and such a heat as will not make the body adust, or fragile. Francis Bacon.
Which with torrid heat,
And vapours as the Libyan air adust,
Began to parch that temperate clime. John Milton, Par. Lost.Such humours are adust, as, by long heat, become of a hot and fiery nature, as choler, and the like. John Quincy.
To ease the soul of one oppressive weight,
This quits an empire, that embroils a state.
The same adust complexion has impell’d
Charles to the convent, Philip to the field. Alexander Pope.
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adust
Adust refers to something that is scorched, burned, or having a burnt or darkened color, usually used to describe complexion or appearance. It is an adjective originating from Latin word "adustus" meaning "burnt".
adust
Adust is an adjective that describes something or someone as being scorched, burned, or having a dark or sunburnt complexion. It typically references an overly heated condition or a dried, burnt, or parched appearance. The term originates from Latin "adustus" which means "scorched" or "burned".
Webster Dictionary
Adustadjective
inflamed or scorched; fiery
Adustadjective
looking as if or scorched; sunburnt
Adustadjective
having much heat in the constitution and little serum in the blood. [Obs.] Hence: Atrabilious; sallow; gloomy
Etymology: [L. adustus, p. p. of adurere: cf. F. aduste.]
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Adust
a-dust′, adj. burnt up or scorched; browned with the sun. [L. adustus, pa.p. of adurĕre, to burn up.]
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of adust in Chaldean Numerology is: 9
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of adust in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2
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