Definitions for adulterine

adulterine a·dul·ter·ine

Spelling: [uh-duhl-tuh-reen, -tuh-rahyn]
IPA: /əˈdʌl təˌrin, -təˌraɪn/

Adulterine is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 902 anagrams from letters in adulterine (adeeilnrtu).

Definitions for adulterine

adjective

  1. characterized by adulteration; spurious.
  2. born of adultery.
  3. of or involving adultery.

Origin of adulterine

1535-45; Latin adulterīnus, equivalent to adulter adulterer, counterfeiter (see adulterer) + -īnus -ine1

Examples for adulterine

Abrogation of every law establishing the civil inferiority of women and natural or adulterine children.

Under the treaty of Wallingford one thousand one hundred and fifteen adulterine castles were to be razed.

No attempt, however, seems to have been made forcibly to dissolve the adulterine gilds.

He sent Stephen's mercenaries over the sea and (p. 140) completed the destruction of the 'adulterine castles.'

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