ADUST, Adustus, is applied, among Physicians, etc. to such Humours, as by long Heat become of a hot and fiery Nature. See HUMOUR.
Such is Choler seen to be.—Melancholy is usually considered as black and adust Bile. See CHOLER, MELANCHOLY, etc.
Adust Blood, says Blanchard, is, when by reason of extraordinary Heat, its more subtle Parts are all evaporated, leaving the grosser, with all the Impurities therein, half mortified, as it were. See BLOOD.
The Word is formed of the Latin aduro, I burn.
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