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- adjective
Adamic .
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Examples
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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.
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But the Adamical myth is opposed to all our modern studies.
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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.
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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.
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It contrasts poorly with the common sense of the pagan -- Fiat Justitia, ruat clum; and the heathenish and old - Adamical sentiment of the clansman anent Roderick Dhu --
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But the Adamical myth is opposed to all our modern studies.
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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.
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