Word Meanings - ADULTER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To commit adultery; to pollute. B. Jonson.

Related words: (words related to ADULTER)

• ADULTERY
  The fine and penalty imposed for the offense of adultery. (more info) 1. The unfaithfulness of a married person to the marriage bed; sexual intercourse by a married man with another than his wife, or voluntary sexual intercourse by a married woman
• POLLUTE
  To render ceremonially unclean; to disqualify or unfit for sacred use or service, or for social intercourse. Neither shall ye pollute the holy things of the children of Israel, lest ye die. Num. xviii. 32. They have polluted themselves with blood.
• COMMITTAL
  The act of commiting, or the state of being committed; commitment.
• COMMITTER
  1. One who commits; one who does or perpetrates. South. 2. A fornicator. T. Decker.
• COMMIT
  1. To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to intrust; to consign; -- used with to, unto. Commit thy way unto the Lord. Ps. xxxvii. 5. Bid him farewell, commit him to the grave. Shak. 2. To put in charge of a jailor; to imprison. These
• POLLUTER
  One who pollutes. Dryden.
• COMMITTABLE
  Capable of being committed.
• COMMITTIBLE
  Capable of being committed; liable to be committed. Sir T. Browne.
• COMMITTEEMAN
  A member of a committee.
• POLLUTED
  Defiled; made unclean or impure; debauched. -- Pol*lut"ed*ly, adv. -- Pol*lut"ed*ness, n.
• COMMITMENT
  1. The act of commiting, or putting in charge, keeping, or trust; consigment; esp., the act of commiting to prison. They were glad to compound for his bare commitment to the Tower, whence he was within few days enlarged. Clarendon. 2. A warrant
• COMMITTEE
  One or more persons elected or appointed, to whom any matter or bussiness is referred, either by a legislative body, or by a court, or by any collective body of men acting together. Commitee of the whole , a committee, embracing all the members
• SUBCOMMITTEE
  An under committee; a part or division of a committee. Yet by their sequestrators and subcommittees abroad . . . those orders were commonly disobeyed. Milton.
• NONCOMMITTAL
  A state of not being committed or pledged; forbearance or refusal to commit one's self. Also used adjectively.
• RECOMMIT
  To commit again; to give back into keeping; specifically, to refer again to a committee; as, to recommit a bill to the same committee.
• RECOMMITMENT; RECOMMITTAL
  A second or renewed commitment; a renewed reference to a committee.