Meaning of adust | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Abnormally dark or over-concentrated (associated with various states of discomfort or illness, specifically being too hot or dry).
   historical, postpositional, usually
2. Hot and dry; thirsty or parched.
   broadly
3. Burnt or having a scorched colour.
   archaic

Examples

“From melancholy aduſt ariſes one kind [of humour]; from Choler another, which is moſt brutiſh: another from Flegme, which is dull; and the laſt from Blood, which is beſt.”

“[S]o in fevers and hot diſtempers from choler aduſt is cauſed a blackneſſe in our tongues, teeth and excretions: […]”

“He was tired and adust with long riding; but he did not go home.”

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