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adulterern. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: adulter v., -er suffix1. Etymology: < adulter v. (see forms at that entry) + -er suffix1. Compare adulter n. and foreign-language forms cited at that entry. Compare also adulteress n.On the form history compare discussion at adulter n., adulter v., adultery n. With forms in -our compare -our suffix. society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > fornication, adultery, or incest > [noun] > adultery > adulterer α. a1382 (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Psalms xlix. 18 With auoutereres [a1425 L.V. avowtreris; L. adulteris] thi porcioun thou leidist. c1400 J. Wyclif (1871) III. 394 If þer be any cursid jurour, extorsioner, or avoutrer. ?a1425 (a1415) (Harl.) (1917) 71 (MED) Alle þise ben avowtreris. ?a1475 (Winch.) (1908) 19 A-vowtrere [a1500 King's Cambr. avowterere], adulter,..adultra. 1509 A. Barclay (Pynson) f. lxxi Kepynge the dore whyle the auoutrer is within. 1629 E. Coke 72 b If shee goeth willingly with or to the auowtrer. 1708 (new ed.) 68 Avowterer is an Adulterer with whom a married woman continues in Adultery. β. c1415 (c1390) G. Chaucer (Lansd.) (1877) §841 Seint Iohn seiþe þat þat þe advowtrers schal bien in hell..for licherye.?a1475 (?a1425) in tr. R. Higden (Harl. 2261) (1882) VIII. App. 487 (MED) The seide Symon Burle was..a lechoure and an open advouterer.1535 Job xxiv. 15 The aduouterer, that wayteth for the darcknesse.a1541 R. Barnes in W. Tyndall et al. (1573) 319/1 Certayne men doe affirme those men to bee aduoulterers.1549 (STC 16267) Svpper of the Lorde f. cxxiii If any here be a blasphemer, aduouterer [1552 adulterer], or bee in malyce or enuie.c1585 Bp. J. Pilkington (1841) 642 And called him proud, advoterer, a thief and heretic.1653 R. Baxter 70 Hereticks, Advouterers, Church-robbers.γ. ?1506 M. Beaufort tr. J. de Gruytrode (Pynson) sig. G.iv I cursed soule of the..adulterer [Fr. adultere], fornicator, periurer, extorcioner.a1557 J. Cheke tr. (1843) v. 32 Whosoever divorceth his wife, except it be for fornications cause, doth mak her an adulterer.1611 A. Willet i. vii. 341 If the woman take another man, as long as the first liueth, she is called an adulterer.1687 J. Dryden iii. 140 Reeking from the Stews, Adulterers come.1708 (new ed.) 68 Avowterer is an Adulterer with whom a married woman continues in Adultery.1757 xxviii. 202 If it be proved that she is an Adulterer, she may be divorced from her Husband's Table and Bed.1809 T. E. Tomlins at Adultery The usual mode of punishing adulterers at present is by action of crim. con.1866 37/1 The law of the Old Testament..prescribed the punishment of death, both for the adulterer and for the adulteress.1879 F. W. Farrar tr. Suetonius in II. ix. xl. 306 This husband or adulterer of three queens [sc. Felix].1956 R. Graves (1999) III. 356 The nuptial contract, that deters Adulteresses and adulterers.1987 A. Theroux ii. vii. 179 Two adulterers caught horrified in the lime-whitened orchard under a bare moon.2007 June 84/2 Provoking that wife..to call a counter-news conference where she suggested he was a public liar and adulterer.the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > misinterpretation > distortion or perversion of meaning > [noun] > one who perverts ?c1430 (c1400) Rule St. Francis (Corpus Cambr.) in F. D. Matthew (1880) 49 But of gostly chastite it semeþ þat þei ben alle avoutreris, for þei halde religioun þat is maad of synful men bettre þan religion maad of crist hym self. 1582 (2 Cor. iv. 2) 479 Theeues and adulterers of the Scriptures. 1694 P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais iv. xlvi. 181 Usurers, Apothecaries, Cheats, Coyners, and Adulterers of Wares. 1709 W. Reeves tr. Justin Martyr et al. I. xlvii. 369 This in short is my Prescription against these Adulterers of the Faith, to try all their Doctrines by the Gospel. 1757 Serenius (ed. 2) (at cited word) Adulterer of wine. 1852 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Patents 1851: Agric. 419 in (27th Congr., 3rd Sess.: House of Representatives Exec. Doc. 102, Pt. 2) X Idle swindlers; and their..dupes... I mean here the patent-medicine men, and..the adulterers of drugs of foreign countries. 1913 F. H. Garrison xii. 777 Bismarck declared the adulterers of food to be, next to the anarchists, the greatest enemies of the German people. 2005 J. Emsley (2006) xiii. 287 In Ulm, convicted wine adulterers were..executed. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.a1382 |