adustedadj.
/əˈdʌstᵻd/, U.S. /əˈdəstəd/ 1. = adust adj.1 1a. Now historical and rare.
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the world > life > the body > secretory organs > secretion > [adjective] > humours > specific
moista1393
cholerica1398
melancholya1398
radicala1398
sanguinea1398
adusta1400
phlegmatica1400
adusted1547
phlegmatical1586
humid1604
sanguineous1732
1547 A. Borde Breuiary of Helthe i. f. lv Yf the egestion..dothe loke like shepes tretles, there is abundance of coler adusted.
1575 J. Banister Needefull Treat. Chyrurg. sig. Eviiiv It is enough then to hinder the Canker to encrease, by diet, purgation of adusted or melancolike humors.
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 24 Men vse to eate the flesh of Asses, which begetting in their body much melancholicke and adusted humor, causeth them to fall into the Elephantia or spotted leprosie.
1621 T. Venner Briefe Treat. Tobacco sig. D3 It..exiccateth the winde-pipe, lungs, and liuer,..and causeth the blood to be adusted.
1661 J. Howell Divers Historicall Disc. 359 Ther must be som malignity lodg'd within us, as adusted choler, and the like.
1969 Shakespeare Q. 20 89 If the humors were peculiarly hot and dry (‘adusted’) they were apt to be malignant.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > brown or brownness > making or becoming brown > [adjective] > made brown > as if scorched
adusted1550
sunburnt1822
1550 T. Nicolls tr. Thucydides Hist. Peloponnesian War f. 57 Thair skynne was as redde colour adusted [Fr. aduste], full of a lyttle thynne blaynes.
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > subjection or exposure to heat or fire > [adjective] > injured by heat or fire
burnt1393
adust?a1425
fire-fangeda1522
adusted?1550
torrid1611
scathed1791
blackened1859
?1550 J. Bale Apol. agaynste Papyst 63 What your adusted conscyence thynketh of it I can not tell.
1611 R. Brathwait Golden Fleece sig. C4v Aetna a mountaine in Sicilie..from whence issue forth..fire, proceeding out of the adusted matter of the earth.
1642 J. Howell Instr. Forreine Travell xvii. 213 Those rayes which scorch the adusted soyles of Calabria.
1799 G. Huddesford Bubble & Squeak i. 55 Frícando of verse From brain of poet reeking hot, is Likely to parch the epiglottis Of patient readers, who neglect Red Lane adusted to humect.
1840 Burton's Gentleman's Mag. Apr. 196 In his sinister hand he took the candle, and in the execution of his office burned the fingers of his dexter! he threw the adusted cotton into Miss Schminkfleckchen's lap.
1859 J. D. Bryant Redemption 68 A lurid brume Oppress'd th' adusted air, aboding ill And deep malignance of th' approaching foe.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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adj.1547