ADULTERATION, Adulteratio, the act of debasing a medicine or other thing, with bad ingredients; or the putting one thing for, and into another. See SOPHISTICATION.
To adulterate the current coin, is a capital crime in all nations. See MONEY, and COIN. The word is Latin; formed from the verb Adulterare, to corrupt by mingling something foreign to any substance.
ADULTERATION
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