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

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adust

  1. (medicine, historical, usually postpositive, of a bodily humour) Abnormally dark or over-concentrated (associated with various states of discomfort or illness, specifically being too hot or dry). [from 15th c.]
    • 1638, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], “Of the Matter of Melancholy”, in The Anatomy of Melancholy. [], 5th edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed [by Robert Young, Miles Flesher, and Leonard Lichfield and William Turner] for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 1, section 1, member 3, subsection [3], page 34:
      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.
    • 1650, Thomas Browne, “A Digression Concerning Blacknesse”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: [], 2nd edition, London: [] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, [], →OCLC, 6th book, page 283:
      [S]o in fevers and hot diſtempers from choler aduſt is cauſed a blackneſſe in our tongues, teeth and excretions: []
  2. (by extension) Hot and dry; thirsty or parched.
  3. (archaic) Burnt or having a scorched colour. [from 15th c.]

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Borrowed from Latin adustus (burnt, scorched), perfect passive participle of adūrō.

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adust (feminine adusta, masculine plural adusts or adustos, feminine plural adustes)

  1. scorched, parched
  2. (figurative) sullen, grim

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