adulterineとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /əˈdʌltəɹaɪn/
• (米国発音) enPR: ə-dŭlʹtə-rīn, IPA: /əˈdʌltəɹaɪn/ or enPR: ə-dŭlʹtə-rēn, IPA: /əˈdʌltəɹiːn/

形容詞

adulterine (comparative more adulterine, superlative most adulterine)

1. Spurious; due to adulteration.
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 4, member 1, subsection i:

     a knave apothecary, that administers the physick, and makes the medicine, may do infinite harm, by his old obsolete doses, adulterine druggs, bad mixtures, quid pro quo, &c.

2. Born of adultery.
3. Pertaining to adultery.
4. Illegal; unlicensed.
   • 1776, Adam Smith, An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations:

     when any particular class of artificers or traders thought proper to act as a corporation without a charter , such adulterine guilds , as they were called , were not always disfranchised […]

名詞

adulterine (plural adulterines)

1. (rare) One born of an adulterous union.

使用する際の注意点

• An adulterine is not the same as a bastard, which is a person born out of wedlock.

参考

形容詞

adulterīne

1. vocative masculine singular of adulterīnus