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adulterise

adulterise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of adulterize.

Meaning of adulterize

Verb

adulterize (third-person singular simple present adulterizes, present participle adulterizing, simple past and past participle adulterized)

  1. (intransitive, largely obsolete) To commit adultery.
    • ca 1644, John Milton, "The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce", Book II, Chap. 18.
      Nevertheleſs, as I find that Grotius on this place hath obſerved the Chriſtian emperors, Theodoſius the IId and Juſtinian, men of high wiſdom and reputed piety, decreed it to be a divorcive fornication, if the wife...
  2. (ambitransitive, uncommon) To adulterate.

Forms of adulterise

third-person singular presentadulterises
present participleadulterising
past participleadulterised
pastadulterised

Questions about adulterise

What is adulterise the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of?
Adulterise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of adulterize.

Words near adulterise in the dictionary

  1. adulteresses
  2. adulteries
  3. adulterine
  4. adulterines
  5. adultering
  6. adulterise
  7. adulterised
  8. adulterises
  9. adulterising
  10. adulterize
  11. adulterized

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Adapted from Wiktionary: adulterise (page history and authors); adulterize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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