Adamicaladj.

1642 Discov. Arch-whore (single sheet) Men go on every one according to the lusts and greedy desires of his corrupt Adamicall flesh.

a1658 J. Cleveland Rel. Quaker in Wks. (1687) 338 Though the Devil trapan The Adamical Man, The Saints stand uninfected.

1760 W. Law Coll. Lett. Interesting & Important Subj. vi. 105 All that is done from the life, the power, and natural capacity of the Adamical nature, is heathenish.

1848 Primitive Church Mag. Dec. 375/2 A soul thus regenerated from its Adamical nature, by the power of the faith which is divinely communicated, will no longer live unto itself, but unto Him who died for it.

1919 P. H. Osmond Mystical Poets of Eng. Church vi. 184 And here he introduces the distinction between the fallen Adamical state, which may be called Babylon, and the regenerate state, Jerusalem or, if you like, Paradise.

1649 J. Ellistone tr. J. Böhme Epist. 6 Christ also doth powre forth his heavenly blood into the desire of Faith in my poore soule, and tinctureth the anger of God which is therein, that the first Adamicall Image of God may againe appeare.

1653 tr. J. Böhme Consideration upon Bk. Esaias Stiefel 115 The Anger was broken (in pieces) in Christ, in that one Adamical Soul, and a possibility to Grace, through the Breaking of Death, was opened.

1657 R. Turner tr. Paracelsus Of Chymical Transmutation 27 The matter of the stone is understood to be Adamical.

1662 R. Mathews Unlearned Alchymist (new ed.) §58. 71 To abide in their pure Adamical freedoms, pleasing themselves in all things.

1707 R. Franck Admirable & Indefatigable Adventures Nine Pious Pilgrims 6 Faith be that Miracle, as the Scriptures testifie of..that restrains the Appetite also, lives above the World, and an Adamical Life.

1798 R. Millar Short Sketch Scriptural Doctr. Methodists 21 By perfection we do not mean absolute, angelical or adamical perfection.

1860 R. F. Burton in Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 1859 29 415 Many prefer the Adamical costume, having an alacrity at twisting their solitary garment round their neck.

2009 J. Connolly Lovers xxix. 288 They are letters of the Enochian, or Adamical, alphabet, supposedly communicated to the English magician John Dee.