Adust: scorched, burned.
The adust landscape of volcanic rock and sand can be particularly beautiful at sunset.
"Adust" comes from Latin "adustus," the past participle of "adurere"("to set fire to"), a verb formed from the Latin prefix "ad-"and the verb "urere" ("to burn"). It entered the English language in the early 15th century as a medical term related to the four bodily humors — black bile, blood, phlegm, and yellow bile — which were believed at the time to determine a person's health and temperament. "Adust" was used to describe a condition of the humors in which they supposedly became heated or combusted. Adust black bile in particular was believed to be a source of melancholy. The association with melancholy gave rise to an adjectival sense of "adust" meaning "of a gloomy appearance or disposition," but that sense is now considered archaic.
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