noun.
Violation of the marriage-bed; carnal connection of a married person with any other than the lawful spouse; in a more restricted sense, the wrong by a wife which introduces or may introduce a spurious offspring into a family.
noun.
In the seventh commandment of the decalogue, as generally understood, all manner of lewdness or unchastity in act or thought. See Mat. v. 28.
noun.
Eccles., intrusion into a bishopric during the life of the bishop.
noun.
In old arboriculture, the grafting of trees: so called from its being considered an unnatural union.
noun.
Adulteration; corruption: as, “all the adulteries of art,”
noun.
Injury; degradation; ruin.