adulterine
See also: adultérine
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin adulterīnus.
Pronunciation edit
- (UK) IPA(key): /əˈdʌltəɹaɪn/
- (US) enPR: ə-dŭlʹtə-rīn, IPA(key): /əˈdʌltəɹaɪn/ or enPR: ə-dŭlʹtə-rēn, IPA(key): /əˈdʌltəɹiːn/
Adjective edit
adulterine (comparative more adulterine, superlative most adulterine)
- Spurious; due to adulteration.
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by 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.
- Born of adultery.
- Pertaining to adultery.
- 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 edit
adulterine (plural adulterines)
- (rare) One born of an adulterous union.
Usage notes edit
- An adulterine is not the same as a bastard, which is a person born out of wedlock.
See also edit
Italian edit
Adjective edit
adulterine
Latin edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /a.dul.teˈriː.ne/, [äd̪ʊɫ̪t̪ɛˈriːnɛ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /a.dul.teˈri.ne/, [äd̪ul̪t̪eˈriːne]
Adjective edit
adulterīne