Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of mankind; one of the human race considered as descended from Adam.
- noun One of that section of mankind more particularly regarded as the offspring of Adam, in contradistinction to a supposed older race, called
Preadamites . - noun One of a sect which originated in the north of Africa in the second century, and pretended to have attained to the primitive innocence of Adam.
- noun A mineral occurring in small yellow or green crystals and in mammillary groups; a hydrous arseniate of zinc, isomorphous with olivenite: found in Chili, and also at Laurium in Greece. Also called
adamine .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A descendant of Adam; a human being.
- noun (Eccl. Hist.) One of a sect of visionaries, who, professing to imitate the state of Adam, discarded the use of dress in their assemblies.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A descendant of
Adam ; ahuman being . - noun mineralogy A
zinc arsenate hydroxide mineral ,Zn 2As O 4OH .
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Examples
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When in operation, the sphere is protonically charged, and the truncated cone of adamite collects the electrons, taking them from their regular orbits and redirecting them in a continuous stream against whichever portion of the sphere it is pointed at.
"The Golden Girl of Munan" by Harl Vincent, part 3 Johnny Pez 2009
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Bloody old pre-adamite with his twohandled umberella!
Finnegans Wake 2006
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Your lovely little person in my estimation is far more precious than all the treasures of the pre-adamite Sultans, and I wish to possess it at pleasure, and in open day, for many a moon, before I go to burrow underground like a mole.
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Of all the pre-adamite whale yet exhumed, by far the largest is the Alabama one mentioned in the last chapter, and that was less than seventy feet in length in the skeleton.
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But not alone has this Leviathan left his pre-adamite traces in the stereotype plates of nature, and in limestone and marl bequeathed his ancient bust; but upon Egyptian tablets, whose antiquity seems to claim for them an almost fossiliferous character, we find the unmistakable print of his fin.
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In the same extinct sea is found the skeleton of the Plesiosaurus, a marine lizard of equal size, and warm-blooded, whose swan-like neck and body graced the serene seas of the pre-adamite world.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873 Various
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The wind had done in that northern latitude what has been performed by some violent pre-adamite agency in the Berber desert.
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With rocket-motors of adamite -- the stuff discovered by pure accident in a steel-mill back on Earth -- the propelling apparatus checked out.
Operation: Outer Space Murray Leinster 1935
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As I don't, I merely smile again, and say "Yes" to Jenkyns Soames, who is giving me his reasons for supposing, by calculation, that vegetables have had a pre-adamite existence, and that even a turnip may have a glorious future before it, when man has disappeared from the face of the earth.
Happy-Thought Hall 1876
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In the eighteenth century I would have stood up for Scheuchzer's pre-adamite man against Peter
A Journey to the Interior of the Earth Jules Verne 1866
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