† adustion Obs.
[ad. L. adūstiōn-em n. of action f. adūr-ĕre: see adure. In the medical vocabulary of most modern lang. in 16th c. (see sense 3), and possibly in Eng. immed. from Fr.]
1. The action or process of burning, scorching, heating to dryness, or parching.
| 1594 Plat Jewell-ho. 3 The more you distil at once..the oyles will be in lesse daunger of adustion. 1601 Holland Pliny (1634) I. 424 The faults and imperfections of pitch..are known by..the very adustion thereof. 1673 in Phil. Trans. VIII. 6128 The Peripateticks, who derive the Saltness of the Sea from the Adustion of the water by the sun⁓beams. 1725 Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Gravel, Turpentine-powder, made by Way of Adustion, or drying in the Sun. |
2. The state of being burnt, or scorched; parched dryness.
| 1559 Morwyng Evonymus 218 Fire in destillation dothe more procure the savoure of adustion and brentnesse. 1650 Ashmole Chymical Coll. 103 Decoct it in Dung, because by Inhumation, Adustion is taken away. 1725 Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Distilling, The least Savour of Smoke or Adustion. |
3. The state of being adust in sense 3; hotness and dryness of the humours of the body.
| 1533 Elyot Castel of Helth (1541) 6 The lyver in hete distempered hath moche blacke choler toward age by adustion of red choler. 1621 Burton Anat. Mel. i. iii. iii. (1651) 207 Adustion of humours makes men mad. 1658 Culpepper Astrol. Judgem. Dis. 90 Such diseases as come of adustion of blood, as the Pestilence. |