What does adulterine mean?
Adulterine means Spurious; due to adulteration..
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/əˈdʌltəɹaɪn/ · adjective
Spurious; due to adulteration..
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.
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[…]
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Adulterine means Spurious; due to adulteration..
Common synonyms include illegitimate.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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.
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