Adamic

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See also: adamic and adàmic

English

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Etymology

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From Adam +‎ -ic, modelled on Latin adamicus.[1]

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Adamic (not comparable)

  1. Of, relating to, or resembling the Biblical character Adam.
    • 1870 April 5, Blossom [pseudonym], “[Letter from San Francisco. [Regular Correspondence to the News.]] The Earthquake.”, in Gold Hill Daily News, volume XIII, number 2001, Gold Hill, Nev., published 1870 April 6, page [2], column 2:
      The story of the man who was bathing at the time, and ran out in Adamic costume, has been told too often, and for a fictional individual he has become altogether too notorious; []
    • 2020, Paul M. Blowers, Visions and Faces of the Tragic [] , Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 127:
      As a consequence of the primeval peripety, the Adamic fall narrated in Genesis 3, []

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Adamic

  1. (Judaism) The language believed to have been spoken by Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden in the biblical account of creation; considered by some traditions as the original or divine language from which all others descended.

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References

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  • Adamic in An American Dictionary of the English Language, by Noah Webster, 1828.
  • Adamic”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
  • "Adamic" in the Wordsmyth Dictionary-Thesaurus © Wordsmyth 2002.
  • Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.
  • Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary, 1987-1996.
  1. ^ Adamic, adj.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

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