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Adamite is a zinc arsenate hydroxide mineral , Zn As O O H . It is a mineral that typically occurs in the oxidized or weathered zone above zinc ore occurrences. Pure adamite is colorless, but usually it possess yellow color due to Fe compounds admixture. ...
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Etymology 1 n. A descendant of Adam; a human being. Etymology 2 n. (context mineral English) A zinc arsenate hydroxide mineral, zinc 2 arsenicoxygen 4 Ohydrogen.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"human being, descendant of Adam" the Biblical first man, 1630s, from Adam + -ite (1). Used from 1620s in reference to sects or groups that practice nudism, in reference to the state of Adam before the Fall.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Adamite \Ad"am*ite\, n. [From Adam.] A descendant of Adam; a human being. (Eccl. Hist.) One of a sect of visionaries, who, professing to imitate the state of Adam, discarded the use of dress in their assemblies.
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For instance, how would humans throughout space react to fellow humans, Adamites, who had sold out a living world in order that they themselves be spared a war?
Descent to the caverns the Adamites had dug while, above, they tore University Station apart and sank the fragments beneath the lake.
After only two weeks, his predictions of astronomical shifts were perfect, and within the first month, he could recite all the known magical stones, from adamite to turquoise, their reputed properties, and the greatest known magical effects which had been brought about by each.
Behind these are the subaltern sects, subdivided from the principal divisions, the Nestorians, the Eutycheans, the Jacobites, the Iconoclasts, the Anabaptists, the Presbyterians, the Wicliffites, the Osiandrians, the Manicheans, the Pietists, the Adamites, the Contemplatives, the Quakers, the Weepers, and a hundred others,** all of distinct parties, persecuting when strong, tolerant when weak, hating each other in the name of a God of peace, forming each an exclusive heaven in a religion of universal charity, dooming each other to pains without end in a future state, and realizing in this world the imaginary hell of the other.