adusted
English edit
Adjective edit
adusted (not comparable)
- (obsolete) Adust, burnt.
- 1642, James Howell, “Section XVII”, in Instructions for Forreine Travell. […], London: […] T. B. for Humprey Mosley [i.e., Humphrey Moseley] […], →OCLC; republished as Edward Arber, editor, Instructions for Forreine Travell. […] (English Reprints; 16), London: [Alex. Murray & Son, 15 June 1869], →OCLC, pages 74–75:
- [T]he ſame Sun which only cheriſheth and gently warmes his Countrey men, halfe parboyle and tanne other people, and thoſe rayes which ſcorch the aduſted ſoyles of Calabria and Spaine, only varniſh and guild the green hony-ſuckled plaines and hillocks of England; […]
Further reading edit
- “adusted”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.