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alteration|ɔːltəˈreɪʃən|
[a. Fr. altération (14th c.), ad. med.L. alterātiōn-em, f. alterā-re to alter.]
1. The action of altering or making some change in a thing.
1482Monk of Evesham 58 Of these alteracyons of tymes..ther was non ende. 1579in Heath Grocers' Comp. (1869) 81 A mistrust and great dowte of alteracion of religion. 1585Abp. Sandys Serm. (1841) 238 To attempt alteration and change in the church of God. 1605Shakes. Lear v. i. 3 He's full of alteration. a1674Clarendon Hist. Reb. i. 55 The inconveniencies that might attend any alteration. 1769Burke State Nat. Wks. 1842 I. 106 Good men..take advantage of the opportunity of such derangement in favour of an useful alteration. a1884Mod. The alteration of the house was a tedious business. 1922Joyce Ulysses 487 To alteration one pair trousers eleven shillings.
2. A change in the character or appearance of anything, viewed as a fact; an altered or changed condition.
1532W. Thynne in Animadv. Pref. 24 The contrarieties and alteracions founde by the collacion of the one [edition] with the other. 1606G. W[oodcocke] Hist. Justine 95 Reioycing in this happy alteration. 1667Milton P.L. ix. 599 Ere long I might perceave Strange alteration in me. 1796Morse Amer. Geog. II. 5 Any known alterations from this statement will be noticed. 1878Huxley Physiogr. 187 Movements of elevation or depression which produce permanent alterations of level.
†3. A distemper. Obs.
1621Burton Anat. Mel. i. ii. ii. iii. (1651) 77 Strange meats..cause notable alterations and distempers. 1653Urquhart Rabelais i. xxiii, By which medicine he cleansed all the alteration and perverse habitude of his braine. 1663Butler Hudibr. i. i. 575 Death of Great Men, Alterations, Diseases, Battels, Inundations.
†4. Music. (See quot.) Obs.
1597T. Morley Introd. Mus. 24 The note which is to be altered is commonly marked with a pricke of alteration. 1609Douland Ornithop. Microl. 57 Alteration..is the doubling of a lesser Note in respect of a greater, or..it is the doubling of the proper value.
5. attrib.: alteration hand, one who alters or remakes ready-made clothes to suit customers' requirements, or renovates old or second-hand garments.
1901Daily Chron. 9 Sept. 9/4 Mantles.—Wanted a good alteration hand. 1961Evening Standard 21 Aug. 17/6 Alteration Hand (female)..C. & A. Modes Ltd. |