单词 | adulterine |
释义 | adulterineadj.n. A. adj. 1. a. Characterized by or committing adultery; given to adultery; (more generally) debauched, lecherous; = adulterous adj. 1. Also figurative. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > fornication, adultery, or incest > [adjective] > adulterous spouse-breaka1400 wedlock-breaking?a1400 adulterousa1425 adulterine?1533 adulterate1556 adulterated1592 mechal1608 incestuous1632 roving1692 ?1533–4 R. Saltwood Compar. bytwene iiij. Byrdes sig. D.v Spouse thy selfe truly to goddys wyll For wyl adulteryne may not endure. 1587 J. Higgins Mirour for Magistrates (new ed.) Sabrine f. 24 Locrine both and Elstride..Which had committed facts adulterine, Th'adulter slayne and eke his concubine. 1678 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. IV iii. 93 A reprobate, spurious, drossie, vain, adulterine, rejectaneous mind. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Adulterine marriages, in St. Augustine's sense, denote second marriages, contracted after a divorce. 1864 L. Wraxall Life Caroline Matilda II. 85 The prince royal..would make way for his sister, the too manifest proof of their adulterine amours. 1990 Sun Herald (Sydney) (Nexis) 7 Oct. 130 The reference to the adulterine lady [in the prophecies of Nostradamus] is to Hussein's seduction of the Arab world. b. Conceived or born as the result of an adulterous relationship; = adulterous adj. 2. Now chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > child > relationship to parent > [adjective] > illegitimate > by adultery adulterousc1443 adulterine1653 1653 J. Rogers Ohel or Beth-Shemesh ii. viii. 552 They are not ligitimate [sic]Children, borne of God, but of base bloud, adulterine seed. 1657 W. Rawley in F. Bacon Resuscitatio To Rdr. sig. bv They could passe, but for a Spurious, and Adulterine Brood, and not for his Lordships Legitimate Issue. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) Adulterine Children are more odious than the illegitimate Offspring of single Persons. 1862 Lancet 12 July 43 A great number of bastard children are born who are not registered; others who are adulterine bastards are registered as legitimate. 1901 Alienist & Neurologist 22 337 Laura, niece of Alexander Farnese and adulterine daughter of Roderigo Borgia. 1991 Jrnl. Southern Afr. Stud. 17 409 Adulterine children, to whom legitimation..was denied during the period under consideration (even after their parents were allowed to marry). ΚΠ 1865 Pall Mall Gaz. 25 Aug. 9/1 The demand for homicidal and adulterine fiction is enormous. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > forgery, falsification > [adjective] counterfeitedc1385 counterfeitc1386 trothlessa1393 bastard1397 forged1484 apocryphate1486 adulterate?a1509 mockisha1513 sophisticate1531 adulterine1542 adulterous1547 mock1548 forbate1558 coined1582 firking1594 feigned1598 adulterated1610 apocryphal1612 spurious1615 usurpeda1616 impostured1619 mock-madea1625 suppository1641 affictitious1656 pasteboard1659 sophisticated1673 flam1678 Brummagem1679 sham1681 belieda1718 fictitious1739 Birmingham1785 pinchbeck1790 brummish1803 Brum1805 flash1812 spurious1830 bogus1839 imitative1839 dummy1846 doctored1853 postiche1854 pseudo1854 Brummagemish1855 snide1859 inauthentic1860 fake1879 bum1884 Brummie1886 tin1886 filled1887 duff1889 faked1890 shicec1890 margarine1891 dud1904 Potemkin village1904 mocked-up1919 phoney baloney1936 four-flushing1942 bodgie1956 moody1958 disauthentic1960 bodgied1988 bodgied-up1988 the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > [adjective] > mixed with something > adulterated sophisticatec1400 adulterine1542 adulterous1547 corrupted1563 sophistered1567 corrupt1581 carded1596 adultered1603 sophisticated1607 adulterated1610 brackish1611 adulterate1634 sophistical1658 unsincere1664 doctored1784 alloyed1806 filled1887 1542 T. Becon Potacion for Lent Pref. sig. A.ij To trye the adulteryne, fayned & false from the syncere, germayne & true learnyng. 1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy ii. iv. i. i. 433 A knaue Apothecary..may doe infinite harme, by..adulterine drugs, bad mixtures. a1667 Bp. J. Taylor Serm. (1678) 182 As adulterine Metals retain the Lustre and Colour of Gold, but not the Value. 1744 G. Berkeley Siris (ESTC T72826) 225 The Peripatetics themselves declare it to be known..[not] by any direct and just reasoning, but only by some spurious or adulterine method. 1798 J. M. Mason Lett. on Frequent Communion vii. 82 Can men have the hardihood to call over this adulterine zeal the name of Jesus? 1854 Harper's New Monthly Mag. 9 751 A French army of ‘artistes’..are rapidly undermining every habit..of the past. At present the adulterine mixture is becoming to neither condition. 1865 C. Kingsley Hereward xx, in Good Words 417/2 The French look on us monk-made knights as spurious and adulterine, unworthy of the name of knight. 3. Established on illegal grounds; illegitimate, unlicensed. Now chiefly historical.In historical use applied spec. to medieval guilds and castles established or constructed without a licence, warrant, or charter. ΘΚΠ society > law > rule of law > illegality > [adjective] unleefula1382 unlawfula1387 wrongfulc1386 unleesomec1400 unlisible?c1425 wrong1480 unlegitimate1602 illicit1606 illegal1626 non licet1628 adulterine1640 unlegal1640 illegitimate1645 illegitime1669 wrongous1671 contraband1686 illicitous1693 sly1829 unprocedural1929 bent1930 bust-out1934 bandulu1980 1640 Bp. J. Hall Episcopacie ii. §8. 130 It matters not when the Episcopal Hierarchy began:..it is enough that it is adulterine, for that it is not named by the Apostles. 1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations I. i. x. 154 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 upon that account, but obliged to fine annually to the king. View more context for this quotation 1829 J. B. Heath Some Acct. Worshipful Company of Grocers (1869) 39 Upon the Pipe Roll of the 26th Henry 2nd is a return of the adulterine Gilds in the city of London. 1851 T. H. Turner Some Acct. Domest. Archit. I. Introd. 23 The erection of numerous fortresses, adulterine castles they were termed, as built without license from the crown. 1875 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. (ed. 2) I. x. 333 The adulterine or unlicensed castles, by whomsoever erected..are to be destroyed. 1901 W. A. Shumaker & G. F. Longsdorf Cycl. Dict. Law 34/2 Adulterine guilds... paying a fine..for the privilege of exercising their usurped privileges. 2002 Oxoniensia 66 44 The number of ‘adulterine’ castles thrown up during the anarchy of 1139–48. 2016 Current Archaeol. Aug. 15/2 A large number of earthworks with other original purposes have been identified as ‘adulterine’ (or unlicensed) mottes. B. n. An illegitimate child; the offspring of an adulterous relationship. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > child > [noun] > illegitimate child avetrolc1300 bastardc1330 misbegetc1330 whoresonc1330 horcop14.. get?a1513 misbegotten1546 misbegot1558 mamzer1562 base1571 bantling1593 by-blow1595 by-chopa1637 by-scape1646 by-slipa1670 illegitimate1673 stall-whimper1676 love brata1700 slink1702 child, son of shame1723 babe of love1728 adulterine1730 come-by-chance?1750 byspel1781 love-child1805 come-o'-will1815 chance-child1838 chance-bairn1863 side-slip1872 fly-blow1875 catch colt1901 illegit1913 outside child1930 1730 N. Bailey et al. Dictionarium Britannicum at word Adulterine, [in Civil Law] a child issued from an adulterous amour or commerce. 1798 H. T. Colebrooke tr. J. Tarkapañcānana Digest Hindu Law II. iv. iii. 595 ‘Cunda’ is explained by Amera, an adulterine begotten after his death. 1859 J. W. Moulton Anal. Amer. Law 33 Those who by accident of birth are partially disqualified..as illegitimates, adulterines, and foundlings..from political rights. 1901 Alienist & Neurologist 22 523 Imperial adulterines like Commodus, Carracalla and Elagabalus. 2009 J. M. Spear Race, Sex, & Social Order Early New Orleans vii. 206 Jung could not—as an adulterine—inherit a share of Bernoudy's estate. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.?1533 |
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