adulterine

See also: adultérine

English

Etymology

From Latin adulterīnus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈdʌltəɹaɪn/
• enPR: ə-dŭlʹtə-rīn, IPA^(key): /əˈdʌltəɹaɪn/ or enPR: ə-dŭlʹtə-rēn, IPA^(key): /əˈdʌltəɹiːn/

Adjective

adulterine (comparative more adulterine, superlative most adulterine)

1. 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.

2. Born of adultery.
3. Pertaining to adultery.
4. 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.

Noun

adulterine (plural adulterines)

1. (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

• bastard
• gandermooner
• uzzard
• wetewold

 

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Italian

Adjective

adulterine

1. (deprecated template usage) Feminine plural of adjective adulterino.

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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

1. vocative masculine singular of adulterīnus