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The fine and penalty imposed for the offense of adultery.

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

To defile by adultery. [Obs.] Milton.

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

A woman who commits adultery.

To commit adultery. Milton.

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

Adultery. [Obs.] Bacon.

Adultery. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Adultery. See Advoutry.

tal punishment or puplic penance decreed by the canon was inflicted, as idolatry, murder, adultery, heresy.

To admit as suitable to a civilized state. [Obs. or R.] "Civilizing adultery." Milton.

To do; to perperate, as a crime, sin, or fault. Thou shalt not commit adultery. Ex. xx. 14.

d, by a husband of his wife or by a wife of her husband, for a breach of marital duty, as adultery, with an implied condition that the offense shall not be repeated. Bouvier. Wharton.

for a crime. -- Criminal conversation (Law), unlawful intercourse with a married woman; adultery; -- usually abbreviated, crim. con. -- Criminal law, the law which relates to crimes.

t; to grant dispensation to or for. [Obs.] "Conniving and dispensing with open and common adultery." Milton. (c) To break or go back from, as one's word. [Obs.] Richardson.

of such illicit sexual intercourse between a man and a woman as does not by law amount to adultery.

Unfaithfulness to the marriage vow or contract; violation of the marriage covenant by adultery.

teth after. Deut. xii. 15. Whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her, hath committed adultery with her already in his heart. Matt. v. 28. The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy. James iv. 5.

y stratagem or conspiracy. [Obs.] And when Christ saith. Who marries the divorced commits adultery, it is to be understood, if he had any plot in the divorce. Milton.