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Plautus has adulterated a rich vein of genuine wit and humour, with a mixture of the basest buffoonry.

From Essays on Wit No. 2 by Flecknoe, Richard

The present war has… adulterated our tongue with strange words.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah

Soul defined 482:3 Human thought has adulterated the meaning of the         word soul through the hypothesis that soul is both an evil         and a good intelligence, resident in matter.

From Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures by Eddy, Mary Baker