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adultern.Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French avoutere, avoutre; Latin adulter. Etymology: < (i) Anglo-Norman avoutere, avouteire, avouter, avoutour, advouter, advoutoure and Middle French avoutre (12th cent. in Old French), also adultere (1493; French adultère ; compare Old French adulteire (12th cent.)), also adultre (1530), used as both noun (in sense ‘adulterer’) and adjective (in sense ‘adulterous’), and its etymon (ii) classical Latin adulter adulterer < adulterāre adulter v. Compare (as noun and adjective) Old Occitan adultre (13th cent.), Catalan adúltero (13th cent.), Spanish adultero (13th cent.), Portuguese adúltero (13th cent.), Italian †avoltero , †adoltro (both 13th cent.), adultero (14th cent.). Compare adulterer n., adulteress n., and also adulter v., adultery n.The forms in Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French show a historically developed form which was frequently subject to classicizing alteration, as is reflected also in the form history in English. Compare similarly the form history at adultery n. and adulter v. With forms in -ier , -our compare -ier suffix, -our suffix. Now rare ( archaic and historical in later use). society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > fornication, adultery, or incest > [noun] > adultery > adulterer α. c1384 (Douce 369(2)) (1850) 1 Cor. vi. 10 Nyle ȝe erre..nethir men seruynge to ydols, nether auouters [a1425 L.V. auouteris; L. adulteri]. c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 72 This Somnor knew a sly lecchour Or an Auouter [c1405 Ellesmere Auowtier; c1410 Harl. 7334 auoutier; c1430 Cambr. Gg.4.27 auoutir]. (Harl. 221) 19 A-vowtere [a1500 BL Add. 37789 avoutrere, a1500 King's Cambr. avowterere], adulter, adultera. c1503 R. Arnold f. lxvi v/2 Noterye and knowen fornicatours or auouteres. 1677 E. Coles (new ed.) Avouter, an Adulterer. β. c1410 (c1390) G. Chaucer (Harl. 7334) (1885) §879 For þese aduouteres breke þe temple of god spirituelly and stelen þe vessel of grace þat is þe body and þe soule.c1422 T. Hoccleve Tale of Jerelaus (Durh.) l. 247 in (1970) i. 148 O stynkynge Aduoutour In wil, seye I.1485 King Richard III Let. 21 June in H. Ellis (1827) 2nd Ser. I. 163 His rebelles and traitors..of whom many been knowen for open murdrers, advowters and extortioners.1535 Luke xviii. 11 Robbers vnrighteous aduouters or as this publican.1583 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin 225 He which looketh vpon another mans wife with a wicked eye, is an Aduowter already before God. 1912 90 380 The plaintiff....lived in adultery with one William Hinson and others, and continued with her said advouter or advouters, until the death of her husband [in 1908].γ. a1500 ( J. Yonge tr. (Lamb.) 191 (MED) Why shold whe now hold men adulteours, which whe trowith with repentaunce I-maked hole?1537 W. Tyndale v The covetous, the extortioners, the adulter, the backbites.1588 W. Byrd xxiii. Superius. sig. E.iij When he first tooke shipping to Lacedemon, that adulter I meane.1645 J. Milton 68 It would be strange, that he..should becom an adulter by marrying one who is now no other mans wife.1696 T. Dogget v. ii. 67 'Tis not the first time that Whoremongers and Adulters have been cloak't with the Law and the Gospel.1710 Dec. 716 By another Law, they condemn Adulters to Death.1875 W. Smith & S. Cheetham I. 21 She is essentially the adultera, and he, because of his complicity with a married woman, becomes an adulter.1994 P. L. Reynolds (2001) ii. 53 According to this law, a woman may divorce an adulter just as a man may divorce an adultera.This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). adulterv.Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French avoultrer, adulterer; Latin adulterāre. Etymology: < Middle French avoultrer, advoultrer (13th cent. in Old French as avoutrer ; compare Anglo-Norman avoltrer ), also Middle French adulterer (14th cent.; French adultérer ) to commit adultery (13th cent. in Old French), to alter, corrupt, falsify (15th cent.) and its etymon classical Latin adulterāre to commit adultery (with), to defile by adultery, to mix (a substance) with another, to impair the purity or strength of, to counterfeit, to falsify or tamper with, to corrupt, debase < ad to (see ad- prefix) + alter another (see alter n.). Compare Old Occitan adulterar (13th cent.), Catalan adulterar (1399), Spanish adulterar (14th cent. or earlier), Portuguese adulterar (15th cent.), Italian †avolterare (13th cent.), adulterare (16th cent. or earlier). Compare later adulterate v. Compare also adultery n., adulter n., adulterer n.The form history in Middle English apparently shows influence from the form history of adulter n., as does the form history in Old French, Middle French from the corresponding French noun (see forms at adulter n.). In both French and English the historically developed French forms were gradually superseded by classicizing forms in adult- . Compare discussion at adulter n. and adultery n. The (present participle) form auowtriande perhaps shows influence from β. forms at adultery n. In later use in sense 1 perhaps independently formed as a back-formation < adultery n. Now rare. society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > fornication, adultery, or incest > commit fornication, adultery, or incest [verb (intransitive)] > commit adultery a1382 (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Wisd. xiv. 24 But an other an other bi enuye sleth, or auoutrende [a1425 L.V. doynge auowtrie; L. adulterans], sorewith. a1557 J. Cheke tr. (1843) xix. 9 Whosoever loouseth himself from his wijf..and marieth an oyer, he adultereth, and whosoever marieth the looused awai, advoutereth. 1616 B. Jonson Epigrammes xxvi, in I. 775 He'adulters still: his thoughts lye with a whore. 1755 S. Johnson To Adulter, to commit adultery with another: a word not classical. 1933 E. A. Hoebel Field Note in T. W. Kavanagh 398 The wife adultered. A sister-in-law saw her lying with another man. 1981 (Nexis) 12 June During a zany..outburst of adultery revelations, we learn he's adultered with Miss Struthers. 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 c1384 (Douce 369(2)) (1850) 2 Cor. ii. 17 We ben not as ful manye, auoutrynge [L. adulterantes] the word of God. a1425 (a1400) (1916) 2 Cor. iv. 2 (MED) Not..auowtriande þe woord of god þurgh mengyng of falste. 1566 J. Barthlet f. 2 He adultereth and mysuseth both Hosius person and penne. 1608 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas (new ed.) ii. iv. 117 With vile Druggs, adultering her Face. 1651 C. Cartwright i. 89 Thou, O Luther, corruptest and adulterest the Scriptures. 1737 May 240/1 The Epic Poets by adultering theirs [sc. fables] with such a deal of Fiction and Romance, had degraded the very word Fable. 1763 77 The immobility and hardness..attributed..to the lead or the bismuth, with which the mercury had been adultered. 1806 N. Biddle Jrnl. 9 June in R. A. McNeal (1993) 163 The Turkish sequin of gold adultered with copper. 1840 C. B. Marriyat viii. 84 The language of the adjacent States is still adultered with the slang of those scoundrels. 1913 40 288 Linseed oil..was adultered by the liberal use of mineral oils, some tests showing 65 per cent. of adulterants. 2008 N. Power ix. 123 On the side, there was crème fraîche,..lemon, for those who wish to adulter the taste [of caviar], but I like it pure. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.c1384v.a1382 |