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Having arrived at maturity, or to full size and strength; matured; as, an adult person or plant; an adult ape; an adult age.

To commit adultery; to pollute. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

That which is used to adulterate anything. -- a. Adulterating; as, adulterant agents and processes.

To defile by adultery. [Obs.] Milton.

The act of adulterating; corruption, or debasement (esp. of food or drink) by foreign mixture. The shameless adulteration of the coin. Prescott.

One who adulterates or corrupts. [R.] Cudworth.

A man who commits adultery; a married man who has sexual intercourse with a woman not his wife.

A woman who commits adultery.

Proceeding from adulterous intercourse. Hence: Spurious; without the support of law; illegal. When any particular class of artificers or traders thought proper to act as a corporation without a charter, such were called adulterine guilds. Adam Smith.

To commit adultery. Milton.

Guilty of, or given to, adultery; pertaining to adultery; illicit. Dryden.

In an adulterous manner.

Adulteration; corruption. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

The state of being adult.

Not adult; immature.

Not adulterated; pure. "Unadulterate air." Cowper. -- Un`a*dul"ter*ate*ly, adv.

cohabit. [Obs.] We with the best men accustom openly; you with the basest commit private adulteries. Milton.

A group of suctorial Infusoria, which in the adult stage are stationary. See Suctoria.

An adulterer. [Obs.]

An adulteress. [Obs.] Bacon.