adust, adusted

[In Ital. adusto, fr. Lat. adustus, pa. par. of aduro = to burn.] 1. Lit. Burnt, scorched, dried with fire, intensely hot. "And vapour as the Lybian air adust , Began to parch that temperate clime." Milton: P. L., bk. xii. "Sulphurous and nitrous foam They found, they mingled; and, with subtle art Concocted and adusted , they reduced To blackest grain, and into store convey'd." Ibid . , bk. vi. 2. Fig .: Hot, fiery, choleric in temper or temperament. "They are but the fruits of adusted choler, and the evaporations of a vindictive spirit."- Howell . ta-dust-i-ble, a. [ADUST.] Capable of being burnt or scorched.