adulterine

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See also: adultérine

English

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Etymology

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From Latin adulterīnus.

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

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adulterine (comparative more adulterine, superlative most adulterine)

  1. Spurious; due to adulteration.
    • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: [], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: [] John Lichfield and James 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.
    • 1776, Adam Smith, An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations:
      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 []

Noun

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adulterine (plural adulterines)

  1. (rare) One born of an adulterous union.

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Italian

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Adjective

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adulterine

  1. feminine plural of adulterino

Latin

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Adjective

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adulterīne

  1. vocative masculine singular of adulterīnus