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adust

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5 lettersPronunciation /əˈdʌst/Part of speech adjectiveSorted adstuStarts with AEnds with T0 clues
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Definitions

  1. burned brown by the sun

Word origin

From Middle French aduste, and its source, Latin adustus (“burnt, scorched”), past participle of adūrere.

Used in a sentence

  • 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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