ăd-usque, for usque ad (like abusque for usque ab); hence,
I Prep. with acc., to , quite or even to , all the way to , as far as (rare, not used in Cic., and for the most part only in the poets of the Aug. per. ( metri gratiā ) and their imitators among later prose writers): adusque columnas, Verg. A. 11, 262: adusque Bari moenia piscosi, Hor. S. 1, 5, 96; 97; Gell. 15, 2.—
II Adv., a strengthened form for usque, throughout , wholly , entirely : oriens tibi victus adusque qua, etc., Ov. M. 4, 20: adusque deraso capite, Ap. Met. 2, 28, 8 (cf. Plaut. Bacch. 5, 2, 7: attonsae hae quidem umbrae usque sunt), v. Hand, Turs. I. p. 189.