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adulterine, a. and n.|əˈdʌltəraɪn|
[ad. L. adulterīn-us born of adultery, spurious; f. adulter. Used first in the fig. sense.]
A. adj.
1. Born of adultery.
1751Chambers Cycl. Adulterine children are more odious than the illegitimate offspring of single persons. 1875Maine Hist. Inst. ii. 53 Matthew O'Neill was an adulterine bastard.
2. Of or relating to adultery.
1865Pall Mall G. 25 Aug. 9/1 The demand for homicidal and adulterine fiction is enormous.
3. fig. Spurious, counterfeit; due to adulteration.
1542Becon Potation for Lent Wks. 1843, 87 To try the adulterine, feigned, and false, from the sincere, germane, and true learning. 1546Suppl. of Commons 92 Forget not your owne youthe, when these adulterine trees were too stronge for you. 1621Burton Anat. Mel. ii. iv. i. i. (1676) 226/2 A knave Apothecary..may doe infinite harme, by..adulterine drugs, bad mixtures. a1667Jer. Taylor Serm. (1678) 182 As adulterine Metals retain the Lustre and Colour of Gold, but not the Value. 1865Kingsley Herew. xx. (in Gd. Wds. 417/2) The French look on us monk-made knights as spurious and adulterine, unworthy of the name of knight.
4. Illegal, illegitimate, unlicensed; esp. in Eng. Hist. ‘adulterine’ castles, guilds.
1640Bp. Hall Episc. by Div. Right ii. §8. 130 It is enough that it is adulterine, for that it is not named by the Apostles. 1753Chambers Cycl. Supp., Adulterine marriages, in St. Augustine's sense, denote second marriages, contracted after a divorce. 1776Adam Smith W.N. (1869) I. i. x. 130 When any particular class of artificers or traders thought proper to act as a corporation or guild without a charter, such were called adulterine guilds. 1829Heath Grocers' Comp. (1869) 39 Upon the Pipe Roll of the 26th Henry 2nd is a return of the adulterine Gilds in the city of London. 1851Turner Dom. Archit. II. Introd. 23 The erection of numerous fortresses, adulterine castles they were termed, as built without license from the crown. 1875Stubbs Const. Hist. I. x. 333 The adulterine or unlicensed castles, by whomsoever erected..are to be destroyed.
B. n. An illegitimate child. rare.
1798H. Colebrooke Hindu Law (1801) II. 480 ‘Cunda’ is explained, by Amera, an adulterine begotten during the husband's life-time. |