adulterine
nounEtymology From Latin adulterīnus.
1
Rare One born of an adulterous union.
- Related terms
- bastard, gandermooner, uzzard, wetewold
adulterine
adjUK /əˈdʌltəɹaɪn/ · US /əˈdʌltəɹaɪn/
Etymology From Latin adulterīnus.
1
Spurious; due to adulteration.
- 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.1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 4, member 1, subsection i:
2
Born of adultery.
3
Pertaining to adultery.
4
Illegal; unlicensed.
- 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[…]1776, Adam Smith, An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations: