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adulterate
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Adulterate \A*dul"ter*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Adulterated; p. pr. & vb. n. Adulterating.] [L. adulteratus, p. p. of adulterare, fr. adulter adulterer, prob. fr. ad + alter other, properly one who approaches another on account of unlawful love. Cf. Advoutry.]
To defile by adultery. [Obs.]
--Milton.-
To corrupt, debase, or make impure by an admixture of a foreign or a baser substance; as, to adulterate food, drink, drugs, coin, etc.
The present war has . . . adulterated our tongue with strange words.
--Spectator.Syn: To corrupt; defile; debase; contaminate; vitiate; sophisticate.
Adulterate \A*dul"ter*ate\, v. i. To commit adultery. [Obs.]
Adulterate \A*dul"ter*ate\, a.
Tainted with adultery.
Debased by the admixture of a foreign substance; adulterated; spurious. [1913 Webster] -- A*dul"ter*ate*ly, adv. -- A*dul"ter*ate*ness, n.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1530s, back-formation from adulteration, or else from Latin adulteratus, past participle of adulterare "to falsify, corrupt," also "to commit adultery." Earlier verb was adulter (late 14c.). Related: Adulterated; adulterating.
Wiktionary
1 Tending to commit adultery. 2 corrupted; impure; adulterated. v
1 To corrupt. 2 To spoil by adding impurity. 3 To commit adultery. 4 To defile by adultery.
WordNet
adj. mixed with impurities [syn: adulterated, debased]
Usage examples of "adulterate".
The great London brewers, it appears, believe that the publicans alone adulterate the beer.
Some manufacturers adulterate their mustard with radish-seed and pease flour.
I recollect his warmth of heart and high sense, and your beauty, gentleness, charms of conversation, and purely disinterested love for one whose great worldly advantages might so easily bias or adulterate affection, I own that I have no dread for your future fate, no feeling that can at all darken the brightness of anticipation.
It requires but little discrimination to distinguish very clearly the peculiar bitterness of quassia in adulterated porter.
I do understand that power is dangerous to a writer, and that my long proximity to unlimited power adulterated my writings.
Druggists and Grocers, prosecuted and convicted from 1812 to 1819, for supplying illegal Ingredients to Brewers for adulterating Beer.
Publicans prosecuted and convicted from 1815 to 1818, for adulterating Beer with illegal Ingredients, and for mixing Table Beer with their Strong Beer.
Brewers prosecuted and convicted from 1813 to 1819, for adulterating Strong Beer with Table Beer.
Fogg and another, brewers, for receiving and using adulterating ingredients.
Solicitor of the Excise, against persons convicted of the fraud of manufacturing spurious, and adulterating genuine coffee.
The adulterating ingredient is usually pipe-clay, of which a liberal portion is substituted for sugar.
He, however, rendered him full justice, saying that he was a true historian, and able to write history as well as tragedies, but that he unfortunately adulterated history by mixing with it such a number of light anecdotes and tales for the sake of rendering it more attractive.
And think -- because they holily refrain from adulterating each other, they get praise for it!
Which same was founded vpon a steale or final Pillar of Iasper of diuers colours, beautifully adulterating one with an other being cut in the middest and closed vp with the cleare Calcidonie, of the colour of the troubled Sea water, and brought into marueilous woorke, beeing lifted vp with guttured hollowe vessels, one aboue an other, with a reserued seperation, by artificiall and woonderful ioyntes.
Go to Patchcock, find out what happened to Ottala, find out if the Morrelines are adulterating the drugs on purpose, or just chasing profits.