adulterine

From Latin adulterinus.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /əˈdʌltəɹaɪn/
• (US) enPR: ə-dŭlʹtə-rīn, IPA^(key): /əˈdʌltəɹaɪn/ or enPR: ə-dŭlʹtə-rēn, IPA^(key): /əˈdʌltəɹiːn/

adulterine (comparative more adulterine, superlative most adulterine)

1. Spurious; due to adulteration.
   • 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Printed by Iohn Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 216894069; The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd corrected and augmented edition, Oxford: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, 1624, OCLC 54573970, 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.

2. Born of adultery.
3. Pertaining to adultery.
4. Illegal; unlicensed.
   • Adam Smith

     When any particular class of artificers or traders thought proper to act as a corporation without a charter, such were called adulterine guilds.

adulterine (plural adulterines)

1. (rare) One born of an adulterous union.

• An adulterine is not the same as a bastard, which is a person born out of wedlock.

• bastard
• gandermooner
• uzzard
• wetewold

adulterine

1. feminine plural of adulterino

adulterīne

1. vocative masculine singular of adulterīnus