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Definition of Adulterating
1. Adjective. Making impure or corrupt by adding extraneous materials. "The adulterating effect of extraneous materials"
Similar to: Extraneous, Foreign
Derivative terms: Adulterant, Adulterate
Antonyms: Purifying
Definition of Adulterating
1. Verb. (present participle of adulterate) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Adulterating
1. adulterate [v] - See also: adulterate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Adulterating
Literary usage of Adulterating
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Palmer's Index to "The Times" NewspaperTimes (London, England) (1887)
"Edw., for Attempted Murder, ß j 7 л James, for adulterating Beer. ... Dobbin,
Henry, for adulterating Beer, 19 fbt Dudd, FA, for Water Act Offence, ..."
2. Roman Law in the Modern World by Charles Phineas Sherman (1922)
"§917 Counterfeiting, adulterating the coinage. These offenses, and the offense
of refusing to take lawful money not adulterated, were crimes punishable ..."
3. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1884)
"Starch-sugar is chiefly used in making table-sirup, in brewing beer as a substitute
for malt, and in adulterating cane-sugar. It is also used to replace ..."
4. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1884)
"... used in making table-sirup, in brewing beer as a substitute for malt, and in
adulterating cane-sugar. It ¡a also used to replace cane-sugar in ..."
5. The Chemistry of Common Life by James Finlay Weir Johnston, Arthur Herbert Church (1891)
"... in adulterating beer.—Poisonous picrotoxin contained in it.—Narcotic substitutes
for the hop in South America, in India, and in China. ..."
6. The Justice of the Peace, and Parish Officer: With the Practice of Country by John Frederick Archbold (1846)
"adulterating flour, Sfc. p. 208. Search for adulterated bread or flour, p. 209.
Penalty on persons having ..."
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