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To adulterate food or drink is to make it less pure by adding something of lower quality. If a seller mixes cheap oil into expensive oil and still sells it as the good kind, they adulterate it. The verb is quite formal: inspectors, lawyers, and newspapers use it. In ordinary English we almost always adulterate a product, not a person. Though actually, the Latin idea was “to go after another” — the same family as adultery. Today those two roads have split: adulterate is about goods; adultery is about marriage. You will more often see the form adulterated (“adulterated milk”) than the bare verb.
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組成From Latin adulteratus, from ad- (to, toward) + alter (other) + a verb ending, literally “to go after someone else.” In English it is also analysed as adultery + -ate.
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- adulterationthe noun for the act or the result
- adulterantthe substance that is mixed in
- adulterysame Latin idea of turning to an “other”; today this word is about marriage, not food
原始詞典資料7 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
adulterateadj詞源 1/əˈdʌltəɹət/
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archaicliteraryCorrupted 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.
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archaicliteraryTending 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: [...]
- I [i.e., ay] that inceſtuous, that adulterate beaſt, / With witchcraft of his wits, with trayterous gifts, / O wicked wit, and giftes that haue the power / So to ſeduce; wonne to his ſhamefull luſt / The will of my moſt ſeeming vertuous Queene; [...]
adulterateverb詞源 2/əˈdʌltəɹeɪt/
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archaicliteraryTo 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?
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archaicliteraryTo make less valuable or spoil (something) by adding impurities or other substances.
- to adulterate coins, drugs, food and drink, etc.
- The present war has so adulterated our tongue with strange words, that it would be impossible for one of our great grandfathers to know what his posterity have been doing, were he to read their exploits in a modern newspaper.
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archaicliteraryTo commit adultery with (someone).
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archaicliteraryTo defile (someone) by adultery.
- Yet ſome would perſwade us, that this abſurd opinion was King Davids; becauſe in the 51st Pſalm he cries out to God, Againſt thee onely have I ſinn'd; as if David had imagin'd that to murder Uriah and adulterate his Wife, had bin no ſinn againſt his Neighbour, when as that Law of Moſes was to the King expreſly, Deut. 17. not to think ſo highly of himſelf above his Brethren.
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archaicliteraryTo commit adultery.
- But Fortune, oh, / She is corrupted, chang’d, and wonne from thee, / Sh’adulterates hourely with thine Vnckle Iohn, / And with her golden hand hath pluckt on France / To tread downe faire reſpect of Soueraigntie, / And made his Maieſtie the bawd to theirs.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。