a. [f. L. Adōnī-us + -AN.] = ADONIC.
1651. T. Stanley, Poems, 56. She then her old Adonian fire retains.
1871. P. S. Lat. Gramm., 480. The Adonian Verse is so intimately connected with the third Sapphic line that Hiatus at the close of the latter is unusual, and words are sometimes divided between the two verses.
