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Definition of Adulterated

Adulterated
Adulterate A*dul"ter*ate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Adulterated; p. pr. & vb. n. Adulterating.] [L. adulteratus, p. p. of adulterare, fr. adulter adulterer, prob. fr. ad + alter other, properly one who approaches another on account of unlawful love. Cf. Advoutry.] 1. To defile by adultery. [Obs.] --Milton. 2. To 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. Syn: To corrupt; defile; debase; contaminate; vitiate; sophisticate.

Meaning of Adulterated from wikipedia

- caused by the act of adulteration, a practice of secretly mixing a substance with another. Typical substances that are adulterated include but are not...
- accordance with this, olive oil adulterated with 10% mineral oil required 8 milliliters, and with 20% 11 milliliters. The adulterated oil tested in 1887 required...
- Adulteration is a legal offense and when the food fails to meet the legal standards set by the government, it is said to have been Adulterated Food. One...
- may nevertheless be deemed adulterated. The Act sets forth several cir****stances under which food will be deemed adulterated. The primary definition set...
- 2013 four subsidiaries of ABP Food Group had been accused of supplying adulterated meat. They were Silvercrest in County Monaghan, Dalepak in North Yorkshire...
- infant formula along with other food materials and components being adulterated with the chemical melamine, which resulted in kidney stones and other...
- The swill milk scandal was a major adulterated food scandal in the state of New York in the 1850s. The New York Times reported an estimate that in one...
- an increasing number of products now labeled as such worldwide are adulterated or counterfeit. According to research by the Unique Mānuka Factor Honey...
- used to adulterate cannabis: Erectile dysfunction drugs: In the Netherlands two chemical analogs of sildenafil (Viagra) were found in adulterated marijuana...
- the idea that "criminal intercourse with a married woman ... tended to adulterate the issue [children] of an innocent husband ... and to expose him to support...