• (British) IPA: /əˈdʌltəɹaɪn/
• (America) enPR: ə-dŭlʹtə-rīn, IPA: /əˈdʌltəɹaɪn/ or enPR: ə-dŭlʹtə-rēn, IPA: /əˈdʌltəɹiːn/

adulterine

1. Spurious; due to adulteration.
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 54573970 ↗, partition II, section 4, member 1, subsection i:

     a knave apothecary, that administers the physick, and makes the medicine, may do infinite harm, by his old obsolete doses, adulterine druggs, bad mixtures, quid pro quo, &c.

2. Born of adultery.
3. Pertaining to adultery.
4. Illegal; unlicensed.

   • When any particular class of artificers or traders thought proper to act as a corporation without a charter, such were called adulterine guilds.

adulterine (plural adulterines)

1. (rare) One born of an adulterous union.