ADUST • E-FREE TRANSLATION.COM • Definition of Adust

... in front advanced, The brandished sword of God before them blazed, Fierce as a comet; which with torrid heat, And vapour as the Lybian air adust Began to parch that ...

— The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' • Thomas Orchard

... plain spaces. The most ugly of all imaginable rooms, which is probably the parlour of a farm-house arrayed for those whom Americans call summer-boarders, is beset with flowers. It blooms, a dry, woollen, papery, cast-iron garden. The floor flourishes with blossoms adust, poorly conventionalised into a kind of order; the table-cover is ablaze with a more realistic florescence; the wall-paper is set with bunches; the rigid machine-lace curtain is all of roses and lilies in its very construction, over ...

— The Rhythm of Life • Alice Meynell