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单词 adulterous
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adulterousadj.

Brit. /əˈdʌlt(ə)rəs/, U.S. /əˈdəlt(ə)rəs/
Forms:

α. late Middle English auoutryouse, 1500s auoutrous.

β. late Middle English–1500s advouterose, 1500s aduouterous, 1500s aduouterouse, 1500s aduoutrouse, 1500s aduowteroose, 1500s aduowterouse, 1500s aduowtrous, 1500s aduowtrouse, 1500s advoulterous, 1500s advouterous, 1500s advoutrous, 1600s aduouturous.

γ. 1500s adoulterous, 1500s adulterius, 1500s adulterose, 1500s adulterouse, 1500s adulteryus, 1500s– adulterous.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: adulter n., -ous suffix.
Etymology: < adulter n. (see forms at that entry) + -ous suffix. Compare use as adjective in the Romance languages of the forms corresponding to adulter n.On the form history compare discussion at adulter n., adulter v., adultery n.
1. Relating to, characterized by, or involving adultery; (of a person) that commits or has committed adultery.
ΘΚΠ
society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > fornication, adultery, or incest > [adjective] > adulterous
spouse-breaka1400
wedlock-breaking?a1400
adulterousa1425
adulterine?1533
adulterate1556
adulterated1592
mechal1608
incestuous1632
roving1692
α.
a1425 (a1400) Northern Pauline Epist. (1916) Rom. vii. 3 (MED) Þerfore, lyfande þe man, sche schal be callyd auoutryouse [L. adultera], if sche were with an oþer man.
1538 tr. Erasmus Prepar. to Deathe sig. F viiiv The auoutrous woman, to whom it was sayd, Go and synne no more.
β. 1526 Bible (Tyndale) Matt. xii. 39 The evyll and advoutrous generacion seketh a signe [1540 (Great), 1560 (Geneva), 1582 (Rheims) aduouterous, 1611 (King James) adulterous.]1535 Bible (Coverdale) Hosea iii. 1 Go yet thy waye & wowe an aduouterous woman.1549 J. Olde tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Eph. II. Prol. 105 Blasphemous swearyng; advouterous lyving.1634 Malory's Most Anc. Hist. Prince Arthur i. sig. Zv Knights that bee aduouturous [a1470 Winch. Coll. advoutrers; 1485 Caxton auenturous] or letcherous shall not bee happy nor fortunate in the warres.γ. 1550 (title) A woorke of the holy bishop S. Augustine concernyng adulterous mariages.1562 in T. Stretton Marital Litigation Court of Requests (2008) 36 Her adulterius lyvinge, viz: withe one Thomas Butler and others.a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) iii. vi. 93 Th'adulterous Anthony, most large In his abhominations.1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iv. 753 By thee [sc. wedded love] adulterous lust was driv'n from men Among the bestial herds to raunge. View more context for this quotation1766 W. Warburton Divine Legation Moses (ed. 5) I. Postscr. p. xxxiv Virtuous love, not adulterous or incestuous.a1789 W. J. Mickle Siege Marseilles (1794) ii. iv. 257 With sleek adulterous smiles.1814 R. Southey Roderick xx. 243 Efface the shame Of their adulterous birth.1899 ‘G. F. Monkshood’ Rudyard Kipling 39 He [sc. Kipling] does not write of adulterous entanglements.1973 P. P. Read Upstart vii. 121 I might have discovered the truth..if our adulterous liaison had not ended.2008 Guardian 23 Feb. 18/2 The co-respondent—the person who has sex with an adulterous spouse—will now be known as the second respondent.
2. Conceived or born as the result of an adulterous relationship.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > child > relationship to parent > [adjective] > illegitimate > by adultery
adulterousc1443
adulterine1653
c1443 R. Pecock Reule of Crysten Religioun (1927) 34 (MED) This is oure compleynt..aȝens þe sones of god, oure spousis..and now of vs forsakers..and þat of her straunge leumans advouterose multiplicacioun.
1542 T. Becon in M. Coverdale tr. H. Bullinger Golden Bk. Christen Matrimonye Pref. sig. A.vii He is fayne to bryng vp those aduouterous chyldren which are not his awne.
1594 C. Marlowe & T. Nashe Dido iii. ii. 828 Lustful Jove and his adulterous child.
1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 22 They were adulterous, and the children of strangers.
1765 Answer for Mary de Gares 13 The assignation granted by Elizabeth Ker too John Irving her son, was null, as being granted by an adulteress to her adulterous child.
1890 D. Bingham Marriages of Bourbons II. ii. 76 Madame de Montespan considered that Madame Scarron..would be an excellent person to take charge of her adulterous offspring.
1922 Southern Reporter 91 652/1 [If] the bastard, adulterous or incestuous children were born of parents who were incapable of contracting marriage at the time of conception.
2003 D. Goy-Blanquet Joan of Arc i. 13 A rumour..making Joan an adulterous child of Queen Isabel and her brother-in-law Louis, the Duke of Orleans.
3. Relating to or characterized by adulteration; that adulterates; admixed, corrupted; debased by contamination. Now rare.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > forgery, falsification > [adjective]
counterfeitedc1385
counterfeitc1386
trothlessa1393
bastard1397
forged1484
apocryphate1486
adulterate?a1509
mockisha1513
sophisticate1531
adulterine1542
adulterous1547
mock1548
forbate1558
coined1582
firking1594
feigned1598
adulterated1610
apocryphal1612
spurious1615
usurpeda1616
impostured1619
mock-madea1625
suppository1641
affictitious1656
pasteboard1659
sophisticated1673
flam1678
Brummagem1679
sham1681
belieda1718
fictitious1739
Birmingham1785
pinchbeck1790
brummish1803
Brum1805
flash1812
spurious1830
bogus1839
imitative1839
dummy1846
doctored1853
postiche1854
pseudo1854
Brummagemish1855
snide1859
inauthentic1860
fake1879
bum1884
Brummie1886
tin1886
filled1887
duff1889
faked1890
shicec1890
margarine1891
dud1904
Potemkin village1904
mocked-up1919
phoney baloney1936
four-flushing1942
bodgie1956
moody1958
disauthentic1960
bodgied1988
bodgied-up1988
the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > [adjective] > mixed with something > adulterated
sophisticatec1400
adulterine1542
adulterous1547
corrupted1563
sophistered1567
corrupt1581
carded1596
adultered1603
sophisticated1607
adulterated1610
brackish1611
adulterate1634
sophistical1658
unsincere1664
doctored1784
alloyed1806
filled1887
1547 J. Hooper Answer Detection Deuyls Sophistrye sig. X Why doothe they not study to restore the doctrine of the Apostoles..and let this adulterous tradicions of men passe.
1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest f. 21 All adulterous and counterfayted Mettals it doth betray.
1606 T. Palmer Ess. Meanes to make Trauailes more Profitable i. 32 Such like adulterous resemblances [between substances], which..mens gains haue laboured & arted.
1736 W. Ellis London & Country Brewer II. vii. 42 There are Thousands in the Nation..that are guilty of this adulterous Part of Brewing.
1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker I. 93 An adulterous mixture, brewed up of nauseous ingredients.
1878 D. A. Wells Sugar Ind. United States 51 Do I understand you to intimate that adulteration of their sugars by refiners with adulterous substances is general?
1889 Unitarian Apr. 148/1 This adulterous mixture of sanctities and frivolities,—this intrusion of worldliness into the holy of holies.
2007 W. Kennedy in L. D. Edwards et al. Princ. & Pract. Pharmaceut. Med. v. xxxi. 397 The definitions of precisely what was a poisonous or adulterous substance would have to be developed on precedent.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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