adulterine

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Scrabble points
11
Words With Friends
14
Letters
10
Pronunciation
/əˈdʌltəɹaɪn/(UK)
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/əˈdʌltəɹaɪn/(UK) · /əˈdʌltəɹaɪn/(US) · /əˈdʌltəɹiːn/(US)

Definition of adulterine

5 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  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.”
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adj

  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. Born of adultery.
  3. Pertaining to adultery.
  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[…]”

noun

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

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From Latin adulterīnus.

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