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t. & i. [Fr. altérer = to alter; Sp. & Port. alterar Ital. alter are; Low Lat. altero. From Cla . Lat. alter one of two.] [ALTERCATION.] 1. Trans. In some respect or other to change anything more or le completely from what he or it was before. "And the God that hath caused his name to dwell there destroy all kings and people, that shall put to their hand to alter and to destroy this house of God which is at Jerusalem."- Ezra vi. 12 "My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips."-Pa. lxxxix. 34. 2. In trans.: To change; to become different in some respect or other. according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not."- Dan. vi. 8.