adulterine

UK /əˈdʌltəɹaɪn/ US /əˈdʌltəɹaɪn/
adj 4noun 1

Definitions

adj

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.

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[…]

noun

1

One born of an adulterous union.

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