adulteress (adult eres)

[ adulterine (a-dul'ter-in), a. and n. [L. adul terinus, It must be, however, understood that strong moral repugnance to the fictitious affiliation of these illegitimate and adulterine children begins to show itself among the oldest of the Hindu law-writers whose treatises have survived. Maine, Early Law and Custom, p. 99. 2. Relating or pertaining to adultery; involving or implying adultery: as, adulterine fiction; adulterine marriage (used by St. Augustine of a second marriage after divorce).-3. Characterized by adulteration; adulteration; spurious; base: as, adulterine drugs or metals. [A [A Latinism, now rare.]-4+. Illegitimate; illicit; unauthorized: as, adulterine castles (castles built by the Norman barons in England land, after the conquest, without royal warrant). The adulterine guilds, from which sums were acted in 1180, were stigmatised as adulterine because they had not purchased the right of a ociation, as the older legal guilds had done, and had set themselves up against the government of the city which the king had recognised by his charter. Stubbs , Const. Hist., II. n. In civil law , a child begotten in adultery. adulterize (a-dul'ter-iz), v. i. [ adulter + -ize .] To be guilty of adultery. Milton . Also spelled adulterise . [Rare.] Where did God ever will thee to lie, to swear, to oppre , to adulterise ? Rev. T. Adams , Works, II. 365. adulterous (a-dul'ter-us), a. [ adulter + -ous ; substituted for the older form advoutrous , q. v.] 1. Pertaining to or characterized by adultery; given to adultery. IMG:content-0297.png:[blocks in formation] adultery (a-dul'ter-i), n.; pl. adulteries (-iz). [ bran(t-)s, ppr. of a dumb rare: see adumbrate.] of adurere: see adure.] Burning; heating. Bacon . [Rare.] adusk (a-dusk'), prep. phr. as adv. or a. [ Giving a faint shadow, or showing a slight re- semblance. adumbrate (ad-um'brāt), v. t.; pret. and pp. adumbrated , ppr. adumbrating . [ tus , pp. of a dumb rare , cast a shadow over; in painting, to represent an object with due min- gling of light and shadow, also represent in outline; umbra , shadow.] 1. To + dust .] Dusty. overshadow; partially darken or conceal. Nor did it [a veil] cover, but adumbrate only Her most heart-piercing parts. Marlowe and Chapman , Hero and Leander, iv. 2. Figuratively, to give a faint shadow or resemblance of; outline or shadow forth; foreshadow; prefigure. Both in the vastne and the richne of the visible universe the invisible God is adumbrated . 18. Taylor . In truth, in every Church those who cling most tenaciously to the dogma are just the men "who have least hold of the divine substance" which it faintly adumbrates . H. N. Oxenham , Short Studies, p. 314. adumbration (ad-um-bra's hon), n. [L. ad- umbratio (n-), a dumb rare : see adumbrate .] 1. The act of adumbrating or making a shadow or faint resemblance.-2. Figuratively, a faint sketch; an imperfect representation; some- thing that suggests by resemblance, or shadows forth; a foreshadowing. Our knowledge is... at best a faint confused adum- Glanville, Scep. Sci. bration. IMG:content-0298.png:[blocks in formation] adumbrative (ad-um'bra-tiv), a. [ We claim to stand there as mute monuments, pathetically adumbrative of much. Carlyle , Fr. Rev., II. i. 10. adumbratively (ad-um'bra-tiv-li), adv . In an adumbrative manner. IMG:content-0299.png:[blocks in formation] 2. Looking as if burned or scorched. In person he was tall, thin, erect, with a small head, a long visage, lean yellow cheek, dark twinkling eyes, adust complexion, and a long, sable-silvered beard. Motley, Dutch Republic, II. 109. 3t. In pathol., having much heat: said of the blood and other fluids of the body; hence, ardent; sanguine; impetuous. If it [melancholy] proceed from blood adust , or that there be a mixture of blood in it, "such are commonly ruddy of complexion, and high-coloured," according to Sallust, Salvianus, and Hercules de Saxonia. Burton, Anat. of Mel., p. 242. adustedt (a-dus'ted), a. [ Those rayes which scorch the adusted soyles of Calabria and Spaine. Howell , Forreine Travell, p. 74.