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corrupt, debase, or make impure by an admixture of a foreign or a baser substance; as, to adulterate food, drink, drugs, coin, etc. The present war has . . . adulterated our tongue with strange words. Spectator.

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

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

An adulterated state or product.

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

To mix or adulterate, as liquors. The wine merchants of Nice brew and balderdash, and even mix it with pigeon's dung and quicklime. Smollett.

Lacking in genuineness; spurious; false; adulterate; -- applied to things which resemble those which are genuine, but are really not so. That bastard self-love which is so vicious in itself, and productive of so many vices. Barrow.

y clay, usually colored more or less strongly red by oxide of iron, and used to color and adulterate various substances. It was formerly used in medicine. It is composed essentially of hydrous silicates of alumina, or more rarely of magnesia. See Clay, and Terra alba.

, originally brought from Mania, in the Philippine Islands; now often made of inferior or adulterated tabacco.

To throw in or on in a rapid, careless manner; to mix, reduce, or adulterate, by throwing in something of an inferior quality; to overspread partially; to bespatter; to touch here and there; as, to dash wine with water; to dash paint upon a picture. I take care to dash the character with such particular circumstance as…

ime; to debase the mind by frivolity; to debase style by vulgar words. The coin which was adulterated and debased. Hale. It is a kind of taking God's name in vain to debase religion with such frivolous disputes. Hooker. And to debase the sons, exalts the sires. Pope.

To tamper with and arrange for one's own purposes; to falsify; to adulterate; as, to doctor election returns; to doctor whisky. [Slang]

proceeding from, the original stock; native; hence, not counterfeit, spurious, false, or adulterated; authentic; real; natural; true; pure; as, a genuine text; a genuine production; genuine materials. "True, genuine night." Dryden.

To adulterate; to drug; as, liquor is said to be hocused for the purpose of stupefying the drinker. Dickens.

ng something which is unclean or unwholesome; mixed or impregnated extraneous substances; adulterated; as, impure water or air; impure drugs, food, etc.

Unimpaired, unadulterated, or genuine state; entire correspondence with an original condition; purity. Language continued long in its purity and integrity. Sir M. Hale.

To adulterate or drug; as, to load wine. [Cant]

Lascivious; wanton; lewd. [R.] This lubric and adulterate age. Dryden.

Free from extraneous substances; pure; unadulterated; neat; as, net wine, etc. [R.]

A substance resembling gutta-percha, and used to adulterate it, obtained from the East Indian tree Isonandra acuminata.