单词 | adulterated |
释义 | adulteratedadj. 1. Tainted with or guilty of adultery; = adulterate adj. 2. Now archaic and rare. 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 1592 R. Dallington tr. F. Colonna Hypnerotomachia f. 70 Adulterated and vnkindly pleasure, fraught with miserie. 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 744 An adulterated women [sic], desiring to make away her iealous husband. 1698 C. Trotter Fatal Friendship iii. 32 If thou art so poorly spirited, T'accept and yield t' adulterated Love, I'll disappoint your Wishes when their highest. 1908 H. G. Wells Tono-Bungay iii. ix. 313 [An] attenuated and adulterated female soul... It is doubtful if the lady knew the real causes of her abandonment. 1997 A. C. Scafuro Forensic Stage ii. v. 230 In Rome, a family council composed of husband and kinsmen decided upon the penalty for an adulterated wife. 2. That has been adulterated (adulterate v. 1); made poorer in quality or unusable for its original purpose by the addition of some other substance or influence; admixed, corrupted, contaminated, debased. ΘΚΠ 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 1610 G. Carleton Iurisdict. 73 Cælestinus..resolued with shame ynough to stand for the adulterated Canon. 1640 T. Fuller Joseph's Coat 120 Iezebel..stopt up the leakes of age, with adulterated complexion, and painted her face. 1675 T. Otway Alcibiades iii. ii. 28 Your guards I'l with adulterated wine Secure. 1723 W. Nicolson Let. 10 Sept. in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1827) 2nd Ser. IV. 332 Losing all our Gold and Silver in exchange for Halfpence and farthings of an adulterated metal. 1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 134 The infectious stuff which is imported by the smugglers of adulterated metaphysics. View more context for this quotation 1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. (1856) xvii. 132 The adulterated breeds of the Danish settlements. 1876 M. E. Braddon Joshua Haggard's Daughter I. 9 No adulterated coffee, no sanded sugar, came from his stores. 1938 H. Asbury Sucker's Progress 343 Suckers..paid exorbitant prices for cut and adulterated liquor. 1988 P. Manuel Pop. Musics Non-Western World (1990) x. 237 Songs with English lyrics and more or less adulterated Hawaiian style came into vogue. 2002 P. Thomas What works, what Doesn't v. 61 Adulterated oils will not have the same therapeutic effect as pure oils. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1592 |
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