Sekirov Dictionary

adulterine

/əˈdʌltəɹaɪn/

adjective 4
noun 1
forms 3

adjective4

Born of adultery.
Pertaining to adultery.
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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. — 1624
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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[…] — 1776

noun1

(rare) One born of an adulterous union.

forms

adulterines · more adulterine · most adulterine

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