One of a sect of visionaries, who, professing to imitate the state of Adam, discarded the use of dress in their assemblies
{i} descendant of Adam; person, human; nudist; member of a visionaries sect who imitate the state of Adam and prefer to walk around naked; type of green fluorescent mineral
I am, in point of fact, a particularly haughty and exclusive person, of pre-Adamite ancestral descent. You will understand this when I tell you that I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule.
() Named after French mineralogist Gilbert Joseph Adam (1795-1881) in 1866.Richard V. Gaines, H. Catherine W. Skinner, Eugene E. Foord, Brian Mason, and Abraham Rosenzweig: Dana's new mineralogy, John Wiley & Sons, 1997