Tuesday, January 8, 2019

2019 - Day 8/357 - Tuesday...Adust...

So, today was a day full of meetings at the Texas Association of REALTORS®, or as we have been re-branded, Texas Realtors®. It was a really good day, meeting with the TREPAC Leadership and the Sub-Committee Chairs and Co-Chairs. 2019 is going to be a really good year, and we are hitting the ground running! Having said that, we are already into the second quarter of our fiscal year, and there is a lot of work to do. Committee Chairs and Co-Chairs from all across the state (and it is a big state) have converged on Austin, and we are all staying at the AT&T Education and Conference Center on the University of Texas Campus. A day full of meetings and presentations, a quick dinner, and now it is time to call it a day. Breakfast is at 7:30 in the morning, and then one more meeting with one of pur elected officials, and that will be the end of this chapter. More to follow...stay tuned!

Adust -- Adjective: scorched, burned. We drove past abandoned farms where drought had ravaged the land and fire had left the fields adust.

Did You Know? Adust comes from Latin adustus, the past participle of adurere ("to set fire to"), a verb formed from the Latin prefix ad- and the verb urere ("to burn"). It entered the English language in the early 15th century as a medical term related to the four bodily humors -- black bile, blood, phlegm, and yellow bile -- which were believed at the time to determine a person's health and temperament. Adust was used to describe a condition of the humors in which they supposedly became heated of combusted. Adust black bile in particular was believed to be a source of melancholy. The association with melancholy gave rise to an adjective sense of adust meaning "of a gloomy appearance or disposition," but that sense is not considered archaic.

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