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Adays

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Nowadays, at the present time (or day). So in Latin, Nunc diērum and Nunc tempŏris. The prefix “a” = at, of, or on. Simularly, anights, of late, on Sundays. All used adverbially.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Adam’s Apple
Adam’s Needle
Adam’s Peak
Adam’s Profession
Adams
Adamant
Adamastor
Adamic Covenant
Adamites
Adaran
Adays
Addison of the North
Addixit
Addle
Adelantado
Ademar
Adept
Adessenarians
Adeste Fidelës
Adfiliate, Adfiliation
Adha, al (the slit-eared)