adulteryn.

Brit.

/əˈdʌlt(ə)ri/, U.S.

/əˈdəlt(ə)ri/

Forms:

α. early Middle English aduoterie, late Middle English aduoulterie, late Middle English aduoultre, late Middle English advowtrye, late Middle English auoultyre, late Middle English 1600s advoutery, late Middle English–1500s aduoultrye, late Middle English–1500s aduoutre, late Middle English–1500s advoutrye, late Middle English–1600s aduouterie, late Middle English–1600s aduoutrie, late Middle English–1600s aduoutry, late Middle English–1600s advoutrie, late Middle English–1600s advoutry, late Middle English–1600s advowtrie, 1500s adoutry, 1500s aduoultere, 1500s aduoultery, 1500s aduoultrie, 1500s aduoultry, 1500s aduoutery, 1500s aduouterye, 1500s aduoutrey, 1500s aduoutrye, 1500s aduowterie, 1500s aduowtery, 1500s aduowterye, 1500s aduowtre, 1500s aduowtrie, 1500s aduowtrye, 1500s advotrie, 1500s advoutre, 1500s advoutrey, 1500s auoultre, 1500s–1600s aduowtry, 1600s advowtry.

β. Middle English auotrie, Middle English auoutri, Middle English auowtrie, Middle English avotre, Middle English avouterie, Middle English avouterye, Middle English avoutre, Middle English avoutri, Middle English avoutrye, Middle English avovtrie, Middle English avowter, Middle English avowtre, Middle English avowtrie, Middle English avowtrye, Middle English avutrie, Middle English awoutre, Middle English awoutry, Middle English awoutrye, Middle English awowtry, Middle English 1600s avoutrie, Middle English 1600s–1700s avowtry, Middle English 1700s avowtery, Middle English–1500s auouterye, Middle English–1500s auoutrie, Middle English–1500s auoutry, Middle English–1500s auoutrye, Middle English–1500s auowtry, Middle English–1500s auowtrye, Middle English–1600s avoutry, 1500s auoutery, 1500s avowtrey.

γ. late Middle English–1500s adultrye, late Middle English–1600s adultrie, late Middle English– adultery, 1500s adoulteri, 1500s adoulterie, 1500s adoultery, 1500s adoulterye, 1500s adoultrie, 1500s adoultry, 1500s–1600s adulterie, 1500s–1600s adulterye, 1500s–1800s adultry, 1600s adulttery, 1600s adulttrie, 1600s adulttry; Scottish pre-1700 addulltre, pre-1700 addulterie, pre-1700 addultre, pre-1700 adullterie, pre-1700 adulltierie, pre-1700 adulltrie, pre-1700 adultarie, pre-1700 adultary, pre-1700 adultere, pre-1700 adulteri, pre-1700 adulterie, pre-1700 adulterye, pre-1700 adultre, pre-1700 adultrie, pre-1700 adultrye, pre-1700 1700s–1800s adultry, pre-1700 1700s– adultery.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French avouterie, adulterie, adultere; Latin adultērium.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman avouterie, advoutrie, Anglo-Norman and Middle French avulterie, avoutire, avoutere, avoutrie, Middle French avoulterie, advoultrie (c1100 in Old French), also Anglo-Norman and Middle French adulterie, adultere (French adultère ; 12th cent. in Old French) conjugal infidelity, violation of conjugal law (also in adultere spirituel idolatry) and its etymon classical Latin adultērium conjugal infidelity, blending or mixing of different strains or ingredients, adulteration, contamination, in post-classical Latin also fornication, debauchery, idolatry (Vulgate) < adulter adulter n. + -ium (see -y suffix⁴). Compare Old Occitan adulteri (12th cent.), avouteri (13th cent. in an isolated attestation), Catalan adulteri (12th cent.), Spanish adulterio (13th cent.), Portuguese adultério (13th cent.), Italian adulterio, †avolterio (both 13th cent.).The form variation shown by the English word largely follows that shown in Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French, in which forms heavily influenced by the related noun avoutre adulterer (see adulter n.) and the verb avoutrer (see adulter v.) were gradually superseded by classicizing forms in adult-. Only a selection of such forms in Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French is given above; as in Middle English, very many different intermediate form types are found.

a. Voluntary sexual intercourse between a married person and another who is not his or her spouse, regarded as a violation of the marriage vows and hence as a sin or crime; the state or condition of having committed this. Also: †an act of adultery (obsolete).In early use sometimes taken to include the desire or intention to have such intercourse, whether or not it occurs (and hence passing into 1b).

ΘΚΠ

society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > fornication, adultery, or incest > [noun] > adultery

eaubruchea1000

mid-lyinga1200

spousebriche?c1225

spousebreachc1275

adulterya1325

spouse-break1357

devoutrie1377

voutrya1382

spouse-breakinga1398

vowtryc1450

vowtrec1475

breach of matrimony1526

wed-breach1638

mechation1656

conjugal infidelity1700

α.

a1325 Statutes of Realm (2011) vii. 51 Ant te womman, ȝif heo mide hire oune wille forsok hire hosebonde, ant tuuelde in hire aduoterie, a sal lusen aremanaund accion to purchasen hire dowere of þe tenement of þe foreseide man þat was hire lord.

c1410 (c1390) G. Chaucer Melibeus (Harl. 7334) (1885) §2223 Þe womman þat was I-take in aduoutrie was brouȝt in his presence.

c1443 R. Pecock Reule of Crysten Religioun (1927) 316 (MED) Dauyd dide aduouterie wiþ bersabee.

1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. xliii. 139 She was but a bastarde, and borne in aduoutrye.

?1531 R. Barnes Supplic. Kinge Henrye VIII f. vj^v That you shall depose a kinge, by cause he lyuyth in advoutrye.

a1643 W. Cartwright Ordinary (1651) iv. v. 75 There shall be no Advowtry in my Ward.

1688 in Polit. Ballads (1860) I. 265 As long as you've pence, y' need scruple no offence, For murder, advoutery, treason.

β. J. Gaytryge Lay Folks' Catech. (York Min.) (1901) 94 (MED) Auoutry..is spousebrek, Whether it be bodily or it be gastely.c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Parson's Tale (Ellesmere) (1877) §840 Thilke stynkynge synne of lecherie that men clepe Auowtrie [c1415 Lansd. aduoutre; c1430 Cambr. Gg.4.27 auouterye; c1460 Selden advoutrie; c1465 Christ Church Oxf. avoutrie].a1450 (c1410) H. Lovelich Hist. Holy Grail xxvii. l. 289 (MED) Þe Jewes..a womman hadden take In Avowtry..And Anon I-stoned scholde sche be, Alle swiche that weren taken in Avowtre.1532 T. More Confut. Tyndales Answere sig. ccliii It [sc. Holy Scripture] sayth that wedlokke is honorable where the bedde is vndefyled wyth auowtry.1678 J. Godolphin Repertorium Canonicum 474 Some are of opinion that Avoutry or Baudry is an offence Temporal as well as Spiritual.1763 R. Burn Eccl. Law II. 46 If she once remain..in avowtry..after he keepeth her against her will..or..turn her away..yet she shall be said to continue with the advouterer.γ. c1415 (c1395) G. Chaucer Merchant's Tale (Lansd.) (1873) l. 1435 Than scholde I lede my lyf in adultrie.?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1869) II. 227 (MED) Lamech..inducede firste bigamy, and so adultery [a1387 J. Trevisa tr. spousebreche] ageyne the lawe of God and of nature.a1568 R. Ascham Scholemaster (1570) i. f. 27 Knightes, that do kill..and commit fowlest aduoulteres.1648 R. Herrick Hesperides 339 She'l runne to all adulteries.1677 R. Baxter Let. in Answer to Mr. Dodwell 114 I heard, when I was young, of one, or two, that for Adultery stood in a White Sheet in the Church.1729 G. Jacob New Law-dict. Divorce: In Divorces for Adultery, several Acts of Parliament have allowed the Innocent Party to marry again.1768 tr. Voltaire L'Ingenu xvi. 122 Though he be ideally your husband,..he is not so in effect; consequently you will not commit adultery.1835 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece I. viii. 327 Adultery was long unknown at Sparta.1858 Ld. St. Leonards Handy Bk. Prop. Law xii. 75 The petition will be dismissed if the petitioner..has condoned (or forgiven) the adultery.1922 Dominion Law Rep. 66 144 An affection that was merely flickering faintly with life might be finally killed by the act of adultery.1989 Omni Dec. 127/1 While most male killers had murdered their spouses after accusing them of adultery,..most women slew their husbands in self-defense.2010 N.Y. Mag. 28 June 20/1 New York was stuck in a fault-divorce structure, which, in its attempts to assign blame, often forced one spouse to lie and say he or she committed adultery.

b. In extended use: any illicit sexual intercourse or activity; lust, debauchery, fornication.Sometimes used formerly by theological and scriptural writers as a term of disapprobation for any marriage regarded as illicit, as that of a widower, a cleric, etc., or of a Christian with a non-Christian.

ΘΚΠ

society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > [noun]

incontinencec1384

unchastityc1384

adulteryc1405

bawdry1460

sensualities1477

incontinency1485

unchasteness1530

dishonesty1535

immorality?1566

inconstancy1581

inchastity1590

society > morality > moral evil > lack of principle or integrity > [noun] > dishonesty > action

brokery1602

trinketing1646

adultery1753

traffickery1838

hanky-panky1841

grafting1859

shystering1860

graft1865

skulduggery1867

sharp practice1869

in and out work1888

by-practice1913

grift1914

dirty pool1973

c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Parson's Tale (Ellesmere) (1877) §904 The thridde spece of Auowtrie is som tyme bitwixe a man and his wyf..whan they take no reward in hire assemblynge but oonly to hire flesshly delit.

1590 Bible (Geneva) Matt. v. 28 Whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her, hath committed adulterie with her already in his heart.

1621 D. Calderwood Altar of Damascus iv. 113 Incontiniencie whatsoever, committed with one of his kindred or bloud,..which is called incest, or adulterie.

1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. (at cited word) A kind of second marriage, which was esteemed a degree of adultery.

1787 W. Hutchinson Hist. & Antiq. Durham II. 262 Within the infirmary..was a strong prison..ordained for great offenders; as for monks guilty of felony or adultery.

1872 E. A. Freeman Hist. Ess. (ed. 2) 17 He is rebuked by Saint Dunstan who pronounces the marriage to be mere adultery.

1882 P. Schaff et al. Relig. Encycl. I. 31 The Sixth Council of Orleans deposed every clerical who had committed adultery.

1910 E. A. Hecker Short Hist. Women's Rights iii. 74 [Under the Code of Justinian] marriage with a Jew was treated as adultery.

2008 Y. K. Greenberg Encycl. Love in World Relig. I. 30 For many mainline Protestant denominations, adultery includes rape, incest, fornication, and unclean communications.

2. figurative. Chiefly in religious contexts (sometimes as spiritual adultery).

a. Applied to devotion to something other than God. Now rare.

ΚΠ

a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Jer. iii. 8 Israel, dide auowtrie [a1382 E.V. leccherie]..and Juda, hir sistir..did auowtrie [L. moechata esset] with a stoon, and with a tree.

1570 T. Norton tr. A. Nowell Catechisme 9 Our soules are sayd to be defiled with adulterie, when they swarue [L. deflectunt] from God to idolatrie and superstition.

1643 J. Burroughes Expos. Prophesie Hosea First Three Chapters 29 [Heathen] idolatry is not adultery; but the people of God being married to the Lord, their idolatry is adultery.

1697 D. Whitby Disc. Love of God 97 'Tis a kind of Spiritual Adultery to admit any Creature into Partnership with him in our Love.

1780 T. Bell Standard of Spirit i. v. 59 Idolatry is..frequently held forth under the notion of adultery or fornication, it being a palpable breach of the marriage-covenant between God and his church.

1877 Friends' Rev. 30 663 Showing that we truly and really believe that whosoever will be a friend of the world commits spiritual adultery against Christ .

1902 A. R. Bennett-Gladstone tr. A. Tesnière Adoration of Blessed Sacrament 143 Mortal sin is..ingratitude towards the most constant love; it is the adultery of the soul towards Jesus its Spouse.

b. Ecclesiastical Law. The illicit occupation of a benefice, esp. a bishopric, during the lifetime of the legal incumbent; (also) the transferral of a bishop from one see to another. Now rare (historical in later use).With allusion to 1 Timothy 3:2: ‘A bishop then must be blamelesse, the husband of one wife’ (King James Bible).Chambers ( Cycl. Supp. 1753) extends the definition to ‘the punishment or fine imposed for that offence’, but the source quoted actually uses Latin adulterium.

ΚΠ

1678 N. Wanley Wonders Little World v. iii. 479 Calistus the second..Decreed it Adultery for a Bishop to forsake his See.

1737 Gentleman's Mag. Feb. 88/1 They may believe a Bishop is guilty of Adultery who leaves one Diocese to take another.

1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Adultery, a person's invading, or intruding into a bishopric, during the former bishop's life... The translation of a bishop from one see to another was also reputed a kind of Adultery.

1813 M. L. Davis Rep. Case Rev. Cave Jones 312 They looked upon his consecration to be a sort of marriage to his church, from which he could not divorce himself, nor take another, without incurring the crime of spiritual adultery.

1906 E. H. Blair et al. Philippine Islands, 1493–1803 XXXIX. 262 They declared that the banishment of the archbishop..might better be called a spiritual adultery—for, while the spouse of this church was still living, the cabildo intruded their presence in order to abuse her.

†3. Debasement, corruption; = adulteration n. 1; (also) an instance of this. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > [noun] > admixture or addition as ingredient > adulteration

cauponation1531

sophistication1541

adulterating1581

bastarding1583

bastardizing1598

sophisticating1611

adultery1616

adulteration1626

adulterism1639

bastardization1650

compassing1669

contagion1695

doctoring1805

1616 B. Jonson Epicœne i. i, in Wks. I. 532 Such sweet neglect more taketh me, Then all th' adulteries of art.

1673 R. Allestree Ladies Calling ii. iii. §20. 92 Nor must she think to cure this by any the little adulteries of art: she may buy beauty, and yet can never make it her own.

1786 Town & Country Mag. Aug. 439/1 We prepare to dine, For which the state provides us genuine wine! Adultery by Act of Parliament forbid.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	adultery
释义	adulteryn. Brit. /əˈdʌlt(ə)ri/, U.S. /əˈdəlt(ə)ri/ Forms: α. early Middle English aduoterie, late Middle English aduoulterie, late Middle English aduoultre, late Middle English advowtrye, late Middle English auoultyre, late Middle English 1600s advoutery, late Middle English–1500s aduoultrye, late Middle English–1500s aduoutre, late Middle English–1500s advoutrye, late Middle English–1600s aduouterie, late Middle English–1600s aduoutrie, late Middle English–1600s aduoutry, late Middle English–1600s advoutrie, late Middle English–1600s advoutry, late Middle English–1600s advowtrie, 1500s adoutry, 1500s aduoultere, 1500s aduoultery, 1500s aduoultrie, 1500s aduoultry, 1500s aduoutery, 1500s aduouterye, 1500s aduoutrey, 1500s aduoutrye, 1500s aduowterie, 1500s aduowtery, 1500s aduowterye, 1500s aduowtre, 1500s aduowtrie, 1500s aduowtrye, 1500s advotrie, 1500s advoutre, 1500s advoutrey, 1500s auoultre, 1500s–1600s aduowtry, 1600s advowtry. β. Middle English auotrie, Middle English auoutri, Middle English auowtrie, Middle English avotre, Middle English avouterie, Middle English avouterye, Middle English avoutre, Middle English avoutri, Middle English avoutrye, Middle English avovtrie, Middle English avowter, Middle English avowtre, Middle English avowtrie, Middle English avowtrye, Middle English avutrie, Middle English awoutre, Middle English awoutry, Middle English awoutrye, Middle English awowtry, Middle English 1600s avoutrie, Middle English 1600s–1700s avowtry, Middle English 1700s avowtery, Middle English–1500s auouterye, Middle English–1500s auoutrie, Middle English–1500s auoutry, Middle English–1500s auoutrye, Middle English–1500s auowtry, Middle English–1500s auowtrye, Middle English–1600s avoutry, 1500s auoutery, 1500s avowtrey. γ. late Middle English–1500s adultrye, late Middle English–1600s adultrie, late Middle English– adultery, 1500s adoulteri, 1500s adoulterie, 1500s adoultery, 1500s adoulterye, 1500s adoultrie, 1500s adoultry, 1500s–1600s adulterie, 1500s–1600s adulterye, 1500s–1800s adultry, 1600s adulttery, 1600s adulttrie, 1600s adulttry; Scottish pre-1700 addulltre, pre-1700 addulterie, pre-1700 addultre, pre-1700 adullterie, pre-1700 adulltierie, pre-1700 adulltrie, pre-1700 adultarie, pre-1700 adultary, pre-1700 adultere, pre-1700 adulteri, pre-1700 adulterie, pre-1700 adulterye, pre-1700 adultre, pre-1700 adultrie, pre-1700 adultrye, pre-1700 1700s–1800s adultry, pre-1700 1700s– adultery. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French avouterie, adulterie, adultere; Latin adultērium. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman avouterie, advoutrie, Anglo-Norman and Middle French avulterie, avoutire, avoutere, avoutrie, Middle French avoulterie, advoultrie (c1100 in Old French), also Anglo-Norman and Middle French adulterie, adultere (French adultère ; 12th cent. in Old French) conjugal infidelity, violation of conjugal law (also in adultere spirituel idolatry) and its etymon classical Latin adultērium conjugal infidelity, blending or mixing of different strains or ingredients, adulteration, contamination, in post-classical Latin also fornication, debauchery, idolatry (Vulgate) < adulter adulter n. + -ium (see -y suffix⁴). Compare Old Occitan adulteri (12th cent.), avouteri (13th cent. in an isolated attestation), Catalan adulteri (12th cent.), Spanish adulterio (13th cent.), Portuguese adultério (13th cent.), Italian adulterio, †avolterio (both 13th cent.).The form variation shown by the English word largely follows that shown in Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French, in which forms heavily influenced by the related noun avoutre adulterer (see adulter n.) and the verb avoutrer (see adulter v.) were gradually superseded by classicizing forms in adult-. Only a selection of such forms in Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French is given above; as in Middle English, very many different intermediate form types are found. 1. a. Voluntary sexual intercourse between a married person and another who is not his or her spouse, regarded as a violation of the marriage vows and hence as a sin or crime; the state or condition of having committed this. Also: †an act of adultery (obsolete).In early use sometimes taken to include the desire or intention to have such intercourse, whether or not it occurs (and hence passing into 1b). ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > fornication, adultery, or incest > [noun] > adultery eaubruchea1000 mid-lyinga1200 spousebriche?c1225 spousebreachc1275 adulterya1325 spouse-break1357 devoutrie1377 voutrya1382 spouse-breakinga1398 vowtryc1450 vowtrec1475 breach of matrimony1526 wed-breach1638 mechation1656 conjugal infidelity1700 α. a1325 Statutes of Realm (2011) vii. 51 Ant te womman, ȝif heo mide hire oune wille forsok hire hosebonde, ant tuuelde in hire aduoterie, a sal lusen aremanaund accion to purchasen hire dowere of þe tenement of þe foreseide man þat was hire lord. c1410 (c1390) G. Chaucer Melibeus (Harl. 7334) (1885) §2223 Þe womman þat was I-take in aduoutrie was brouȝt in his presence. c1443 R. Pecock Reule of Crysten Religioun (1927) 316 (MED) Dauyd dide aduouterie wiþ bersabee. 1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. xliii. 139 She was but a bastarde, and borne in aduoutrye. ?1531 R. Barnes Supplic. Kinge Henrye VIII f. vj^v That you shall depose a kinge, by cause he lyuyth in advoutrye. a1643 W. Cartwright Ordinary (1651) iv. v. 75 There shall be no Advowtry in my Ward. 1688 in Polit. Ballads (1860) I. 265 As long as you've pence, y' need scruple no offence, For murder, advoutery, treason. β. J. Gaytryge Lay Folks' Catech. (York Min.) (1901) 94 (MED) Auoutry..is spousebrek, Whether it be bodily or it be gastely.c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Parson's Tale (Ellesmere) (1877) §840 Thilke stynkynge synne of lecherie that men clepe Auowtrie [c1415 Lansd. aduoutre; c1430 Cambr. Gg.4.27 auouterye; c1460 Selden advoutrie; c1465 Christ Church Oxf. avoutrie].a1450 (c1410) H. Lovelich Hist. Holy Grail xxvii. l. 289 (MED) Þe Jewes..a womman hadden take In Avowtry..And Anon I-stoned scholde sche be, Alle swiche that weren taken in Avowtre.1532 T. More Confut. Tyndales Answere sig. ccliii It [sc. Holy Scripture] sayth that wedlokke is honorable where the bedde is vndefyled wyth auowtry.1678 J. Godolphin Repertorium Canonicum 474 Some are of opinion that Avoutry or Baudry is an offence Temporal as well as Spiritual.1763 R. Burn Eccl. Law II. 46 If she once remain..in avowtry..after he keepeth her against her will..or..turn her away..yet she shall be said to continue with the advouterer.γ. c1415 (c1395) G. Chaucer Merchant's Tale (Lansd.) (1873) l. 1435 Than scholde I lede my lyf in adultrie.?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1869) II. 227 (MED) Lamech..inducede firste bigamy, and so adultery [a1387 J. Trevisa tr. spousebreche] ageyne the lawe of God and of nature.a1568 R. Ascham Scholemaster (1570) i. f. 27 Knightes, that do kill..and commit fowlest aduoulteres.1648 R. Herrick Hesperides 339 She'l runne to all adulteries.1677 R. Baxter Let. in Answer to Mr. Dodwell 114 I heard, when I was young, of one, or two, that for Adultery stood in a White Sheet in the Church.1729 G. Jacob New Law-dict. Divorce: In Divorces for Adultery, several Acts of Parliament have allowed the Innocent Party to marry again.1768 tr. Voltaire L'Ingenu xvi. 122 Though he be ideally your husband,..he is not so in effect; consequently you will not commit adultery.1835 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece I. viii. 327 Adultery was long unknown at Sparta.1858 Ld. St. Leonards Handy Bk. Prop. Law xii. 75 The petition will be dismissed if the petitioner..has condoned (or forgiven) the adultery.1922 Dominion Law Rep. 66 144 An affection that was merely flickering faintly with life might be finally killed by the act of adultery.1989 Omni Dec. 127/1 While most male killers had murdered their spouses after accusing them of adultery,..most women slew their husbands in self-defense.2010 N.Y. Mag. 28 June 20/1 New York was stuck in a fault-divorce structure, which, in its attempts to assign blame, often forced one spouse to lie and say he or she committed adultery. b. In extended use: any illicit sexual intercourse or activity; lust, debauchery, fornication.Sometimes used formerly by theological and scriptural writers as a term of disapprobation for any marriage regarded as illicit, as that of a widower, a cleric, etc., or of a Christian with a non-Christian. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > [noun] incontinencec1384 unchastityc1384 adulteryc1405 bawdry1460 sensualities1477 incontinency1485 unchasteness1530 dishonesty1535 immorality?1566 inconstancy1581 inchastity1590 society > morality > moral evil > lack of principle or integrity > [noun] > dishonesty > action brokery1602 trinketing1646 adultery1753 traffickery1838 hanky-panky1841 grafting1859 shystering1860 graft1865 skulduggery1867 sharp practice1869 in and out work1888 by-practice1913 grift1914 dirty pool1973 c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Parson's Tale (Ellesmere) (1877) §904 The thridde spece of Auowtrie is som tyme bitwixe a man and his wyf..whan they take no reward in hire assemblynge but oonly to hire flesshly delit. 1590 Bible (Geneva) Matt. v. 28 Whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her, hath committed adulterie with her already in his heart. 1621 D. Calderwood Altar of Damascus iv. 113 Incontiniencie whatsoever, committed with one of his kindred or bloud,..which is called incest, or adulterie. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. (at cited word) A kind of second marriage, which was esteemed a degree of adultery. 1787 W. Hutchinson Hist. & Antiq. Durham II. 262 Within the infirmary..was a strong prison..ordained for great offenders; as for monks guilty of felony or adultery. 1872 E. A. Freeman Hist. Ess. (ed. 2) 17 He is rebuked by Saint Dunstan who pronounces the marriage to be mere adultery. 1882 P. Schaff et al. Relig. Encycl. I. 31 The Sixth Council of Orleans deposed every clerical who had committed adultery. 1910 E. A. Hecker Short Hist. Women's Rights iii. 74 [Under the Code of Justinian] marriage with a Jew was treated as adultery. 2008 Y. K. Greenberg Encycl. Love in World Relig. I. 30 For many mainline Protestant denominations, adultery includes rape, incest, fornication, and unclean communications. 2. figurative. Chiefly in religious contexts (sometimes as spiritual adultery). a. Applied to devotion to something other than God. Now rare. ΚΠ a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Jer. iii. 8 Israel, dide auowtrie [a1382 E.V. leccherie]..and Juda, hir sistir..did auowtrie [L. moechata esset] with a stoon, and with a tree. 1570 T. Norton tr. A. Nowell Catechisme 9 Our soules are sayd to be defiled with adulterie, when they swarue [L. deflectunt] from God to idolatrie and superstition. 1643 J. Burroughes Expos. Prophesie Hosea First Three Chapters 29 [Heathen] idolatry is not adultery; but the people of God being married to the Lord, their idolatry is adultery. 1697 D. Whitby Disc. Love of God 97 'Tis a kind of Spiritual Adultery to admit any Creature into Partnership with him in our Love. 1780 T. Bell Standard of Spirit i. v. 59 Idolatry is..frequently held forth under the notion of adultery or fornication, it being a palpable breach of the marriage-covenant between God and his church. 1877 Friends' Rev. 30 663 Showing that we truly and really believe that whosoever will be a friend of the world commits spiritual adultery against Christ . 1902 A. R. Bennett-Gladstone tr. A. Tesnière Adoration of Blessed Sacrament 143 Mortal sin is..ingratitude towards the most constant love; it is the adultery of the soul towards Jesus its Spouse. b. Ecclesiastical Law. The illicit occupation of a benefice, esp. a bishopric, during the lifetime of the legal incumbent; (also) the transferral of a bishop from one see to another. Now rare (historical in later use).With allusion to 1 Timothy 3:2: ‘A bishop then must be blamelesse, the husband of one wife’ (King James Bible).Chambers ( Cycl. Supp. 1753) extends the definition to ‘the punishment or fine imposed for that offence’, but the source quoted actually uses Latin adulterium. ΚΠ 1678 N. Wanley Wonders Little World v. iii. 479 Calistus the second..Decreed it Adultery for a Bishop to forsake his See. 1737 Gentleman's Mag. Feb. 88/1 They may believe a Bishop is guilty of Adultery who leaves one Diocese to take another. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Adultery, a person's invading, or intruding into a bishopric, during the former bishop's life... The translation of a bishop from one see to another was also reputed a kind of Adultery. 1813 M. L. Davis Rep. Case Rev. Cave Jones 312 They looked upon his consecration to be a sort of marriage to his church, from which he could not divorce himself, nor take another, without incurring the crime of spiritual adultery. 1906 E. H. Blair et al. Philippine Islands, 1493–1803 XXXIX. 262 They declared that the banishment of the archbishop..might better be called a spiritual adultery—for, while the spouse of this church was still living, the cabildo intruded their presence in order to abuse her. †3. Debasement, corruption; = adulteration n. 1; (also) an instance of this. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > [noun] > admixture or addition as ingredient > adulteration cauponation1531 sophistication1541 adulterating1581 bastarding1583 bastardizing1598 sophisticating1611 adultery1616 adulteration1626 adulterism1639 bastardization1650 compassing1669 contagion1695 doctoring1805 1616 B. Jonson Epicœne i. i, in Wks. I. 532 Such sweet neglect more taketh me, Then all th' adulteries of art. View more context for this quotation 1673 R. Allestree Ladies Calling ii. iii. §20. 92 Nor must she think to cure this by any the little adulteries of art: she may buy beauty, and yet can never make it her own. 1786 Town & Country Mag. Aug. 439/1 We prepare to dine, For which the state provides us genuine wine! Adultery by Act of Parliament forbid. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.a1325
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