| 词汇 | adamite |
| 词源 | adamite. A historical name for any supporter of John Adams, the second president of the United States. Old Parson Weems, George Washington’s biographer, wrote a book entitled The Philanthropist, or a Good Twenty-five Cents Worth of Political Love Powder for Honest Adamites and Jeffersonians. John Ad- ams, who died in 1826, age 91, died on a July 4th, as did Tho- mas Jefferson and James Monroe. Adams and Jefferson died on the same July 4th. See jefferson bible. |
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