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adulterine

adj
/əˈdʌltəɹaɪn/UK/əˈdʌltəɹaɪn/US

Etymology

From Latin adulterīnus.

  1. derived from adulterīnus

Definitions

  1. Spurious

    Spurious; due to adulteration.

    • a knave apothecary, that administers the physick, and makes the medicine, may do infinite harm, by his old obsolete doses, adulterine druggs, bad mixtures, quid pro quo, &c.

  2. Born of adultery.

  3. Pertaining to adultery.

  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. Illegal

      Illegal; unlicensed.

      • when any particular class of artificers or traders thought proper to act as a corporation without a charter , such adulterine guilds , as they were called , were not always disfranchised[…]

    2. One born of an adulterous union.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA