FromMiddle Englishajusten, borrowed fromMiddle Frenchadjuster, orOld French, fromLatinad(“to, up to, towards”) +iustus(“correct, proper, exact”); Equivalent toad- +just. Probably influenced in sense byOld Frenchajouster (cf. modernajouter), fromVulgar Latin*adiuxtāre, fromLatiniuxta. The Middle English originally meant "to correct, remedy" in the late 14th century, and was reborrowed from Middle French in the early 17th century. According to another view on the etymology, the word was actually derived from Old Frenchajouster and then supposedly later influenced by folk etymology from Latiniustus;[1] if so, it is adoublet ofadjute.
As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants. But even that Sisyphean task looks easy next to the fight against synthetic drugs. No sooner has a drug been blacklisted than chemistsadjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one.
Headjusted his initial conclusion to reflect the new data.
2013 June 1, “Towards the end of poverty”, inThe Economist[1], volume407, number8838, page11:
But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 (the average of the 15 poorest countries’ own poverty lines, measured in 2005 dollars andadjusted for differences in purchasing power): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.
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