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Adulterine

//əˈdʌltəɹaɪn// adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    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. 2
    Born of adultery.
  3. 3
    Pertaining to adultery.
  4. 4
    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[…]"

Adjective
  1. 1
    conceived in adultery wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    One born of an adulterous union. rare

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Latin adulterīnus.

Etymology 2

From Latin adulterīnus.

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