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AdulteratingAdulterate 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. Adulteration
Adulteration A*dul`ter*a"tion, n. [L. adulteratio.]
1. The act of adulterating; corruption, or debasement (esp.
of food or drink) by foreign mixture.
The shameless adulteration of the coin. --Prescott.
2. An adulterated state or product.
Alterative
Alterative Al"ter*a*tive, n.
A medicine or treatment which gradually induces a change, and
restores healthy functions without sensible evacuations.
Blatteration
Blatteration Blat`ter*a"tion, n. [L. blateratio a babbling.]
Blattering.
Chatteration
Chatteration Chat*ter*a"tion, n.
The act or habit of chattering. [Colloq.]
Exenteration
Exenteration Ex*en`ter*a"tion, n. [LL. exenteratio.]
Act of exenterating. [R.]
Flusteration
Flusteration Flus`ter*a"tion, n.
The act of flustering, or the state of being flustered;
fluster. [Colloq.]
Inveteration
Inveteration In*vet`er*a"tion, n. [L. inveteratio.]
The act of making inveterate. [R.] --Bailey.
IteratingIterate It"er*ate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Iterated; p. pr. &
vb. n. Iterating.]
To utter or do a second time or many times; to repeat; as, to
iterate advice.
Nor Eve to iterate Her former trespass feared.
--Milton. Iteration
Iteration It`er*a"tion, n. [L. iteratio.]
Recital or performance a second time; repetition. --Bacon.
What needs this iteration, woman? --Shak.
LiteratiLiterati Lit`e*ra"ti, n. pl. [See Literatus.]
Learned or literary men. See Literatus.
Shakespearean commentators, and other literati.
--Craik. LiteratiLiteratus Lit`e*ra"tus, n.; pl. Literati. [L. litteratus,
literatus.]
A learned man; a man acquainted with literature; -- chiefly
used in the plural.
Now we are to consider that our bright ideal of a
literatus may chance to be maimed. --De Quincey. Literatim
Literatim Lit`e*ra"tim, adv. [LL., fr. L. litera, litera,
letter.]
Letter for letter.
Literation
Literation Lit`er*a"tion, n. [L. littera, litera, letter.]
The act or process of representing by letters.
ObliteratingObliterate Ob*lit"er*ate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Obliterated;
p. pr. & vb. n. Obliterating.] [L. obliteratus, p. p. of
obliterare to obliterate; ob (see Ob-) + litera, littera,
letter. See Letter.]
1. To erase or blot out; to efface; to render undecipherable,
as a writing.
2. To wear out; to remove or destroy utterly by any means; to
render imperceptible; as. to obliterate ideas; to
obliterate the monuments of antiquity.
The harsh and bitter feelings of this or that
experience are slowly obliterated. --W. Black. Obliterative
Obliterative Ob*lit"er*a*tive, a.
Tending or serving to obliterate.
Reiterative
Reiterative Re*it"er*a*tive (r?-?t"?r-?-t?v), n.
1. (Gram.) A word expressing repeated or reiterated action.
2. A word formed from another, or used to form another, by
repetition; as, dillydally.
Teratical
Teratical Te*rat"ic*al, a. [Gr. ? a wonder.]
Wonderful; ominous; prodigious. [Obs.] --Wollaston.
Transliteration
Transliteration Trans*lit`er*a"tion, n.
The act or product of transliterating, or of expressing words
of a language by means of the characters of another alphabet.
Verbatim et literatimVerbatim Ver*ba"tim, adv. [LL., fr. L. verbum word.]
Word for word; in the same words; verbally; as, to tell a
story verbatim as another has related it.
Verbatim et literatim [LL.], word for word, and letter for
letter.
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