Obs. [f. prec.] To burn, to scorch, to sear; to dry up with heat. Also fig.
1550. Bale, Eng. Votaries, I. 46 b. An hondred thousande conscyences dyd he … aduste with his Romyshe faythe.
1633. T. N[ewton], Lemnie’s Touchst. Complex., 64. Beards of the colour of brasse: for that the haires are neither adusted by the Sunne, nor yet by any inward heat.
1667. Milton, P. L., VI. 514. Sulphurous and Nitrous Foame … Concocted and adusted they reduced To blackest grain.
