adulterine

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /əˈdʌltəɹaɪn/    美 /əˈdʌltəɹaɪn/|/əˈdʌltəɹiːn/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. One born of an adulterous union. rare
形容词 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[…]

词形变化

more adulterine comparative most adulterine superlative adulterines plural

词源

词源 1
From Latin adulterīnus.
词源 2
From Latin adulterīnus.
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