LekhoriLekhoriCorrupted or made impure by being mixed with something else; adulterated.
Theſe, and other like places in abundance through all thoſe ſhort Epiſtles, muſt either be adulterat, or elſe Ignatius [of Antioch] was not Ignatius, nor a Martyr, but moſt adulterate, and corrupt himſelf.
Tending to commit adultery; relating to or being the product of adultery; adulterous.
I am poſſeſt with an adulterate blot, / My bloud is mingled with the crime of luſt: [...]
To corrupt, to debase (someone or something).
For thus, that King violated that Oath which he ought moſt religiouſly to have ſworn to; but that he might not ſeem openly and publickly to violate it, he craftily adulterated and corrupted it; and leaſt he himſelf ſhould be accounted perjur'd, he turn'd the very Oath into a Perjury. [...] And who durſt pervert and adulterate that Law which he thought the only Obſtacle that ſtood in his way, and hindred him from perverting all the reſt of the Laws?
From Latin adulterātus (“adulterate, adulterated, defiled, polluted, counterfeited”), perfect passive participle of adulterō (“to adulterate, defile, commit adultery (with), counterfeit”) (see -ate (a...
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To make less valuable or spoil (something) by adding impurities or other substances.
to adulterate coins, drugs, food and drink, etc.
To commit adultery with (someone).