Word Meanings - ADULTERIZE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To commit adultery. Milton.

Related words: (words related to ADULTERIZE)

• 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
• 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
• MILTONIAN
  Miltonic. Lowell.
• MILTONIC
  Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Milton, or his writings; as, Miltonic prose.
• COMMITTABLE
  Capable of being committed.
• COMMITTIBLE
  Capable of being committed; liable to be committed. Sir T. Browne.
• COMMITTEEMAN
  A member of a committee.
• 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.
• HAMILTON PERIOD
  A subdivision of the Devonian system of America; -- so named from Hamilton, Madison Co., New York. It includes the Marcellus, Hamilton, and Genesee epochs or groups. See the Chart of Geology.
• 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.