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Webster 1913 Edition


Alteration

Alˊter-a′tion

,
Noun.
[Cf. F.
altération
.]
1.
The act of altering or making different.
Alteration
, though it be from worse to better, hath in it incoveniences.
Hooker.
2.
The state of being altered; a change made in the form or nature of a thing; changed condition.
Ere long might perceive
Strange
alteration
in me.
Milton.
Appius Claudius admitted to the senate the sons of those who had been slaves; by which, and succeeding
alterations
, that council degenerated into a most corrupt.
Swift.

Webster 1828 Edition


Alteration

ALTERA'TION

,
Noun.
[L. alteratio.]
The act of making different, or of varying in some particular; an altering or partial change; also the change made, or the loss or acquisition of qualities not essential to the form or nature of a thing. Thus a cold substance suffers an alteration when it becomes hot.

Definition 2024


altération

altération

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French

Noun

altération f (plural altérations)

  1. alteration