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Adamic
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adamic adàmic
English
Etymology
en :af Adam -ic :der la:adamicus 1
From en Adam ic, modelled on en la adamicus.adj
Pronunciation
en /əˈdæmɪk/ /ˈædəmɪk/ GenAm
Adjective
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Of, relating to, or resembling the Biblical character Adam.
en Blossom [pseudonym] [Letter from San Francisco. [Regular Correspondence to the News.]] The Earthquake. Gold Hill Daily News XIII 2001 Gold Hill, Nev. 5 April 1870 6 April 1870 [2] https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/622481039/ 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;
en 2020 Paul M. Blowers Visions and Faces of the Tragic: The Mimesis of Tragedy and the Folly of Salvation in Early Christian Literature Oxford University Press 9780192595935 127 https://books.google.com/books?id=W-vqDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA127&dq=%22hamartia%22+Augustine&hl=&cd=31&source=gbs_api#v=onepage&q=%22hamartia%22%20Augustine&f=false As a consequence of the primeval peripety, the Adamic fall narrated in Genesis 3, they have all inherited the catastrophic and tragic hamartia, as it were, of original sin, the engrained powerlessness of the soul to will the good, much less to do it, along with the deep disorientation of the soul's root desire.
Synonyms
en Adamical
Derived terms
en Adamically Adamic earth Adamic stone post-Adamic pre-Adamic,preadamic
Translations
relating to the Biblical character Adam
Bulgarian: bg ада́мов
Catalan: ca adàmic
French: fr adamique
Hindi: hi आदमी
Portuguese: pt adâmico
Spanish: es adánico, es adámico
Proper noun
en 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.
Translations
proto-language spoken by Adam and Eve
Arabic: ar اللُّغَة الْآدُمْيَة, ar لُغَة آدَم
Bulgarian: bg ада́мов език
Catalan: ca llenguatge adàmic f
French: fr langue adamique f
Hindi: hi आदमी f
Japanese: ja アダムの言語 アダムのげんご, Adamu no gengo
Portuguese: pt língua adâmica f, pt língua de Adão f
References
"Adamic" in the Wordsmyth Dictionary-Thesaurus © Wordsmyth 2002.
Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.
Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary, 1987-1996.
Anagrams
en aacdim cadmia
en eponyms