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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Adulteration

Adulteration \A*dul`ter*a"tion\, n. [L. adulteratio.]

  1. The act of adulterating; corruption, or debasement (esp. of food or drink) by foreign mixture.

    The shameless adulteration of the coin.
    --Prescott.

  2. An adulterated state or product.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
adulteration

c.1500, from Latin adulterationem (nominative adulteratio), noun of action from past participle stem of adulterare "corrupt, falsify; debauch; commit adultery," from ad- "to" (see ad-) + alterare "to alter" (see alter).

Wiktionary
adulteration

n. The action of adulterate, being mixed with extraneous material, illicit substitution of one substance for another.

WordNet
adulteration
  1. n. being mixed with extraneous material; the product of adultering [syn: debasement]

  2. the act of adulterating (especially the illicit substitution of one substance for another)

Usage examples of "adulteration".

In the instance now alluded to, and probably in all other cases, the deleterious mixture had been caused ignorantly, by the adulteration of the anotta employed for colouring the cheese.

Hydrocarbon Oils -- Scotch Shale Oils -- Petroleum -- Vegetable and Animal Oils -- Testing and Adulteration of Oils -- Lubricating Greases -- Lubrication -- Appendices -- Index.

The Detection of Adulteration in Linseed and other Drying Oils by Chemical, Physical and Organoleptic Methods.

With such an organization, it was the ambition of each craft not to offer goods of inferior quality, and technical defects or adulterations became a matter concerning the whole community, because, an ordinance says, "they would destroy public confidence.

He was much more concerned that, despite his adulterations, speed supplies were very low.

Adulterations are not easily detected in the powder, so that it is better purchased in mass, when small stones, senegal gum, chestnuts, pieces of bdellium, or of a brownish resin called 'false myrrh,' may be sorted out with little difficulty.

Formerly adulteration used to be with oil of Turpentine, often mixed with coco-nut oil, but this has given place to various artificial esters prepared chemically, which are practically odourless and only added to make the oil appear to have a higher ester percentage than it really has.