Meaning of adulterine | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Spurious; due to adulteration.
2. Born of adultery.
3. Pertaining to adultery.
4. Illegal; unlicensed.

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“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[…]”

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