— def · adundary

adundary

/əˈdʌn.də.ri/

adjective · etym: derived from adundas · cf. doundary (dial., unattested elsewhere)

of or pertaining to adundas.

the light of a room can be adundary. so can the temperature, the silence, the particular angle at which an unfamiliar chair invites sitting. when adundas happens, everything in the room is briefly adundary; the cup on the table is the adundary cup, the painting on the wall is the adundary painting.

most labyrinth-walkers come to recognise adundary conditions before they can name them: the cooler air, the instrument being tuned, the slight excess of familiarity in an unvisited place. compare also naturating and the wreathing of an unobserved year.

in a sentence:   "there was something adundary about the breakfast — i had eaten it before, in someone else's house."

see also · naturating wreathing adundas wreathus dream

atlas · return