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▪ I. † aˈdulter Obs.
Forms: 4 avouter, 4–5 avowtier, avowter(e, 5 avoutere, 5–6 advouter, advoutour, advoutre, 6–7 adulter. Strictly speaking, avouter and adulter are two words, as distinct in form as chapter and capital, but as the meaning was always identical, and the one form was gradually changed into the other, it is most convenient to treat them together; and so with all their derivatives.
[In its oldest form a. OFr. avoutre (Pr. avoutre, -ro) aöutre:—L. adulterum (etymol. uncertain, perh. f. ad. to + alter other, different); afterwards assimilated to the L. as ad-vouter, ad-voulter (MFr. advoultre); so as to become at length in form a direct adoption of the L. See also adulterer.]
An adulterer.
1382Wyclif Luke xviii. 11, I am not as othere men, raueynouris, vniust, auouters, as also this pupplican [1388 auoutreris]. c1386Chaucer Friar's T. 72 Or an Auowtier or a paramour [other MSS. auouter, -ir, Harl. avouter]. a1420Hoccleve De Reg. Princ. 64 Who so lithe with his neighbores wyfe Is cursed, and who is ony advoutour. 1440Promp. Parv., Avowtere (v.r. avowtrere, avowterere) Adulter, Adultera. 1502Arnold Chron. (1811) 175 Noterye and knowen fornicatours or auouteres. 1535Coverdale Luke xviii. 11 Robbers vnrighteous aduouters or as this publican. 1537Tindale Exp. 1st Ep. John v, The covetous, the extortioners, the adulter, the backbites. 1545Coverdale Def. Poore Man Wks. II. 485 God will judge fornicators and advoutres. 1587Lyrics etc. in Eng. Garner II. 84 When he first took shipping to Lacedæmon, That adulter I mean. 1645Milton Tetrach. (1851) 244 It would be strange that he..should become an adulter by marrying one who is now no other mans wife.
▪ II. † adulter, v. Obs.
Forms: 4 avoutre (vowtre), 5 advouter, 6 adulter.
[orig. a. OFr. avoutre-r:—aöutrer:—L. adulterā-re to debauch, to corrupt; f. adulter. Subseq. refashioned after L.]
1. intr. To commit or practise adultery.
c1400Apol. for Loll. 87 Þey kepe noiþer clene lif, ne wedding, but..vowtrand, or doing a vowtri. c1550Cheke Matt. xix. 9 Whosoever loouseth himself from his wijf..and marieth an oþer, he adultereth, and whosoever marieth y⊇ looused awai, advoutereth. c1616B. Jonson Epigr. i. 26 He adulters still; his thoughts lie with a whore. 1755Johnson, ‘A word not classical.’ 1775Ash (‘not much used’).
2. fig. To corrupt, debase; = adulterate.
1382Wyclif 2 Cor. ii. 17 Auoutrynge þe worde of God. 1598Sylvester Du Bartas (1878) 146 With vile Drugs adultering her Face. 1651Cartwright Cert. Relig. i. 89 Thou, O Luther, corruptest and adulterest the Scriptures. |