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adust [əˈdʌst] adj Archaic
1. dried up or darkened by heat; burnt or scorched 2. gloomy or melancholy [C14 (in the sense: gloomy): from Latin adūstus, from adūrere to set fire to, from ūrere to burn] ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
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But if it be stopped, and cannot have his way, it becometh adust, and thereby malign and venomous. All adust and athirst, the two entered the wine-shop. High in Front advanc't, The brandisht Sword of God before them blaz'd Fierce as a Comet; which with torrid heat, And vapour as the LIBYAN Air adust, Began to parch that temperate Clime; whereat In either hand the hastning Angel caught Our lingring Parents, and to th' Eastern Gate Let them direct, and down the Cliff as fast To the subjected Plaine; then disappeer'd. |
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