单词 | adulterize |
释义 | adulterizev. 1. transitive. To corrupt, debase, adulterate. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > mix or blend [verb (transitive)] > add as ingredient to a mixture > qualify by admixture > adulterate adulterc1384 feigna1398 sophisticatec1400 infect?1440 counterfeit1495 adulterate?1526 dash1548 falsify1562 elay1573 abuse1574 base1581 corrupt1581 debase1591 adulterize1593 compass1594 sophisticate1604 allay1634 huckster1642 hucksterize1646 cauponize1652 alloy1661 balderdash1674 impurify1693 doctor1726 vitiate1728 sand1851 dope1898 1593 [see adulterized adj. at Derivatives]. 1598 R. Tofte Alba sig. D8 Wilt thou thy Beautie faire, adulterise, And seekst thou still on me to tiranise? 1785 in Contin. Gen. Index to Monthly Rev. (1796) 271 Smouch for adulterizing tea, method of making. 1895 Pacific Coast Jrnl. Homeopathy 3 239 Lucca oil is adulterized with cotton-seed oil, yet it is bought in preference to the pure oil. 1994 G. H. Herdt Guardians of Flutes iv. 127 Barth's concern not to ‘adulterize’ his data is certainly warranted. 2. intransitive. To commit adultery (with someone). Now rare (archaic in later use).Formerly also †transitive with it in same sense (obsolete). ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > fornication, adultery, or incest > commit fornication, adultery, or incest [verb (intransitive)] > commit adultery to break (one's) wedlocka1100 to break spousehoodc1175 to break (also spill) (one's) spousal1340 adultera1382 to overgo one's beda1382 vowtrec1475 to break matrimony1530 to break wedlock1530 adulterize1611 adulterate1613 to commit the seventh1874 to play away1987 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Adulterer (Fr.), to commit adultery, to play the adulterer, to adulterize it. 1625 F. Markham Bk. Honour v. viii. 190 Examine the Decalogue in the old Law..that saith, Doe not adulterize. 1643 J. Milton Doctr. Divorce 38 If the wife attempted..such things as gave open suspicion of adulterizing. 1785 View Controv. Pagans, Mahometans, Jews, & Christians 289 Even the animals..live as it were in chaste wedlock, without forsaking their own mates, to adulterize with others. 1869 T. Inman Anc. Faiths II. 332 Moses retained the young maidens alive, that his followers might adulterise with them. 1871 F. J. Furnivall in R. Laneham Lett. Pref. 71 Other spiritual fathers..haunt ale-houses, adulterize with women. 1900 C. T. Winchester Some Princ. Lit. Crit. iii. 83 As to the real Conrads and Laras, how they love, and engender, and adulterize..is no earthly matter to us. 2005 St. Petersburg (Florida) Times (Nexis) 13 Aug. 2 b Listening to the elder Douglas reminisce about all the leading ladies he adulterized with might be interesting. Derivatives aˈdulterized adj. ΚΠ 1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares f. 72 That adulterized sinfull beauty, wherewith she hath branded her selfe. 1839 M. Ryan Philos. Marriage (ed. 3) i. 8 ‘The Pleasures of Insanity, concerning Scortatory, (adulterised) Love,’ by the Hon. Emanuel Swedenborg. 1993 San Francisco Chron. (Nexis) 1 Sept. a20 The only embarrassment it might have caused was to columnist Novak and the person who fed him the adulterized news tidbits. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < v.1593 |
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