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  • adjective Adamic.

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Examples

  • They are letters of the Enochian, or Adamical, alphabet, supposedly communicated to the English magician John Dee and his associate over a period of decades during the sixteenth century.

    The Lovers John Connolly 2009

  • But the Adamical myth is opposed to all our modern studies.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Fetishism, I believe, is held by the orthodox to be a degradation of the pure and primitive “Adamical dispensation,” even as the negro has been supposed to represent the accursed and degraded descendants of Ham and Canaan.

    Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

  • But He is Man not in the crass, crude and earthly form: He is not composed of mortal and earthly substance as our "Adamical bodies" are.

    Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries Rufus Matthew Jones 1905

  • It contrasts poorly with the common sense of the pagan -- Fiat Justitia, ruat cœlum; and the heathenish and old - Adamical sentiment of the clansman anent Roderick Dhu --

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • But the Adamical myth is opposed to all our modern studies.

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • Fetishism, I believe, is held by the orthodox to be a degradation of the pure and primitive "Adamical dispensation," even as the negro has been supposed to represent the accursed and degraded descendants of Ham and Canaan.

    Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1 Richard Francis Burton 1855

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