[Adam, Lambert], a distinguished French sculptor (1700-1759).
[Adam, Robert], a distinguished architect, born at Kirkcaldy, architect of the Register House and the University, Edinburgh (1728-1792).
[Adam Bede], George Eliot's first novel, published anonymously in 1859, took at once with both critic and public.
[Adam Kadmon], primeval man as he at first emanated from the Creator, or man in his primeval rudimentary potentiality.
[Adam of Bromen], distinguished as a Christian missionary in the 11th century; author of a celebrated Church history of N. Europe from 788 to 1072, entitled Gesta Hammenburgensis Ecclesiæ Pontificum.
[Adamas`tor], the giant spirit of storms, which Camoëns, in his "Luciad," represents as rising up before Vasco de Gama to warn him off from the Cape of Storms, henceforth called, in consequence of the resultant success in despite thereof, the Cape of Good Hope.
[Adamawa], a region in the Lower Soudan with a healthy climate and a fertile soil, rich in all tropical products.
[Adamites], visionaries in Africa in the 2nd century, and in Bohemia in the 14th and 15th, who affected innocence, rejected marriage, and went naked.
[Adamnan, St.], abbot of Iona, of Irish birth, who wrote a life of St. Columba and a work on the Holy Places, of value as the earliest written (625-704).
[Adams, Dr. F.], a zealous student and translator of Greek medical works (1797-1861).