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单词 adulter
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adultern.

Brit. /əˈdʌltə/, U.S. /əˈdəltər/
Forms:

α. Middle English auouter, Middle English auoutier, Middle English auoutir, Middle English auoutour, Middle English auoutyer, Middle English auowter, Middle English auowtier, Middle English avoutre, Middle English avowtere, Middle English 1600s avouter, 1500s auoutere.

β. late Middle English aduoutour, late Middle English advowter, late Middle English–1500s aduouter, late Middle English–1500s aduoutre, late Middle English–1500s advoutour, 1500s aduowter, 1500s advoutre, 1500s 1900s– advouter.

γ. late Middle English adulteour, 1500s– adulter.

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).
An adulterer, esp. a male one.Now chiefly with reference to Biblical and ancient Roman usage (sometimes opposed to feminine adultera).
ΘΚΠ
society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > fornication, adultery, or incest > [noun] > adultery > adulterer
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eaubrekerec1175
wed-breaka1300
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wedlock-breakerc1500
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α.
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (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 Friar's Tale (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].
Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 19 A-vowtere [a1500 BL Add. 37789 avoutrere, a1500 King's Cambr. avowterere], adulter, adultera.
c1503 R. Arnold Chron. f. lxvi v/2 Noterye and knowen fornicatours or auouteres.
1677 E. Coles Eng. Dict. (new ed.) Avouter, an Adulterer.
β. c1410 (c1390) G. Chaucer Parson's Tale (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 Minor Poems (1970) i. 148 O stynkynge Aduoutour In wil, seye I.1485 King Richard III Let. 21 June in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1827) 2nd Ser. I. 163 His rebelles and traitors..of whom many been knowen for open murdrers, advowters and extortioners.1535 Bible (Coverdale) Luke xviii. 11 Robbers vnrighteous aduouters or as this publican.1583 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Deuteronomie 225 He which looketh vpon another mans wife with a wicked eye, is an Aduowter already before God. 1912 Rep. Supreme Court S. Carolina 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. Secreta Secret. (Lamb.) 191 (MED) Why shold whe now hold men adulteours, which whe trowith with repentaunce I-maked hole?1537 W. Tyndale Expos. 1 John v The covetous, the extortioners, the adulter, the backbites.1588 W. Byrd Psalmes, Sonets, & Songs xxiii. Superius. sig. E.iij When he first tooke shipping to Lacedemon, that adulter I meane.1645 J. Milton Tetrachordon 68 It would be strange, that he..should becom an adulter by marrying one who is now no other mans wife.1696 T. Dogget Country Wake v. ii. 67 'Tis not the first time that Whoremongers and Adulters have been cloak't with the Law and the Gospel.1710 Hist. Wks. Learned Dec. 716 By another Law, they condemn Adulters to Death.1875 W. Smith & S. Cheetham Dict. Christian Antiq. I. 21 She is essentially the adultera, and he, because of his complicity with a married woman, becomes an adulter.1994 P. L. Reynolds Marriage in Western Church (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.

Brit. /əˈdʌltə/, U.S. /əˈdəlt(ə)r/
Forms:

α. Middle English auoutre, late Middle English auowtriande (north-east midlands, present participle).

β. 1500s advouter.

γ. 1500s– adulter.

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.
1. intransitive. To commit or practise adultery.In later use nonstandard or humorous.
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
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (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. Gospel St. Matthew (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 Wks. I. 775 He'adulters still: his thoughts lye with a whore.
1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. To Adulter, to commit adultery with another: a word not classical.
1933 E. A. Hoebel Field Note in T. W. Kavanagh Comanche Ethnogr. 398 The wife adultered. A sister-in-law saw her lying with another man.
1981 Associated Press Newswire (Nexis) 12 June During a zany..outburst of adultery revelations, we learn he's adultered with Miss Struthers.
2. transitive. To corrupt, debase, dilute the purity of (literally or figuratively); = adulterate v. 1a.
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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
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adulterate?1526
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base1581
corrupt1581
debase1591
adulterize1593
compass1594
sophisticate1604
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hucksterize1646
cauponize1652
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impurify1693
doctor1726
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c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) 2 Cor. ii. 17 We ben not as ful manye, auoutrynge [L. adulterantes] the word of God.
a1425 (a1400) Northern Pauline Epist. (1916) 2 Cor. iv. 2 (MED) Not..auowtriande þe woord of god þurgh mengyng of falste.
1566 J. Barthlet Pedegrewe Heretiques f. 2 He adultereth and mysuseth both Hosius person and penne.
1608 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iv. 117 With vile Druggs, adultering her Face.
1651 C. Cartwright Certamen Religiosum i. 89 Thou, O Luther, corruptest and adulterest the Scriptures.
1737 London Mag. 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 Ann. Reg. 1762 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 N. Biddle in Greece (1993) 163 The Turkish sequin of gold adultered with copper.
1840 C. B. Marriyat Second Series Diary in Amer. viii. 84 The language of the adjacent States is still adultered with the slang of those scoundrels.
1913 Painters Mag. 40 288 Linseed oil..was adultered by the liberal use of mineral oils, some tests showing 65 per cent. of adulterants.
2008 N. Power Feed Hungry 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).
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