adulterate
adjEtymology
From Latin adulterātus (“adulterate, adulterated, defiled, polluted, counterfeited”), perfect passive participle of adulterō (“to adulterate, defile, commit adultery (with), counterfeit”) (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from ad- (“to, in the direction of”) + alter (“other”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix), literally “to go after someone else”. Equivalent to adultery + -ate.
Definitions
Corrupted or made impure by being mixed with something else
Corrupted or made impure by being mixed with something else; adulterated.
- Theſe, and other like places in abundance through all thoſe ſhort Epiſtles, muſt either be adulterat, or elſe Ignatius [of Antioch] was not Ignatius, nor a Martyr, but moſt adulterate, and corrupt himſelf.
Tending to commit adultery
Tending to commit adultery; relating to or being the product of adultery; adulterous.
- I am poſſeſt with an adulterate blot, / My bloud is mingled with the crime of luſt: [...]
- [C]urse the day / When first Spain's queen beheld the black-ey'd boy, / And gore-fac'd Treason sprung from her adulterate joy.
To corrupt, to debase (someone or something).
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To make less valuable or spoil (something) by adding impurities or other substances.
- to adulterate coins, drugs, food and drink, etc.
- The present war has so adulterated our tongue with strange words, that it would be impossible for one of our great grandfathers to know what his posterity have been doing, were he to read their exploits in a modern newspaper.
To commit adultery with (someone).
To defile (someone) by adultery.
To commit adultery.
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Derived
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at adulterate. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at adulterate. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
8 hops · closes at adulterate
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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