adulterine
See also: adultérine
English
Etymology
From Latin adulterīnus.
Pronunciation
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Adjective
adulterine (comparative more adulterine, superlative most adulterine)
- Spurious; due to adulteration.
- 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 4, member 1, subsection i:
- 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.
- Born of adultery.
- Pertaining to adultery.
- Illegal; unlicensed.
- (Can we date this quote by Adam Smith and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- When any particular class of artificers or traders thought proper to act as a corporation without a charter, such were called adulterine guilds.
- (Can we date this quote by Adam Smith and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
Noun
adulterine (plural adulterines)
- (rare) One born of an adulterous union.
Usage notes
- An adulterine is not the same as a bastard, which is a person born out of wedlock.
See also
Italian
Adjective
adulterine
- (deprecated template usage) Feminine plural of adjective adulterino.
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /a.dul.teˈriː.ne/, [äd̪ʊɫ̪t̪ɛˈriːnɛ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /a.dul.teˈri.ne/, [äd̪ul̪t̪eˈriːne]
Adjective
(deprecated template usage) adulterīne
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