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adulterine

[ uh-duhl-tuh-reen, -tuh-rahyn ]

adjective

  1. characterized by adulteration; spurious.
  2. born of adultery.
  3. of or involving adultery.


adulterine

/ əˈdÊŒltÉ™rɪn; -ËŒriËn; -ËŒraɪn /

adjective

  1. of or made by adulteration; fake
  2. conceived in adultery

    an adulterine child

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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of adulterine1

1535–45; < Latin ²¹»å³Ü±ô³Ù±ð°ùÄ«²Ô³Ü²õ, equivalent to adulter adulterer, counterfeiter ( adulterer ) + -Ä«²Ô³Ü²õ -ine 1
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Yet in 1468 he married Joan of Portugal, and when she bore a daughter, first repudiated her as adulterine, and then claimed her for his own.

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

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The chapter compelled the offenders to swear, “holding the most Holy Gospels, that they will not henceforward keep any adulterine schools in the churches, nor teach boys song or music without license from the schoolmaster.â€

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So he took over or demolished their adulterine castles and restored the fyrd, which was a military draft of every freeman to serve in defense of the realm.

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Abrogation of every law establishing the civil inferiority of women and natural or adulterine children.

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