Word Meanings - ADULTERANT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

That which is used to adulterate anything. -- a. Adulterating; as, adulterant agents and processes.

ADULTERATION
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.
WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
ANYTHINGARIAN
One who holds to no particular creed or dogma.
WHICH
the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
AGENTSHIP
Agency. Beau. & Fl.
ADULTERANT
That which is used to adulterate anything. -- a. Adulterating; as, adulterant agents and processes.
ADULTERATOR
One who adulterates or corrupts. Cudworth.
ADULTERATE
adulter adulterer, prob. fr. ad + alter other, properly one who 1. To defile by adultery. 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.
ANYTHING
1. Any object, act, state, event, or fact whatever; thing of any kind; something or other; aught; as, I would not do it for anything. Did you ever know of anything so unlucky A. Trollope. They do not know that anything is amiss with them. W. G.
UNADULTERATE; UNADULTERATED
Not adulterated; pure. "Unadulterate air." Cowper. -- Un`a*dul"ter*ate*ly, adv.