Definition of Alteretion
Al`ter*a"tion (&?;), n. [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's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- The act of altering or making different.
- Alteration, though it be from worse to better, hath in it incoveniences. --Hooker.
- The state of being altered; a change made in the form or nature of a thing; changed condition.
- ...and I saw by the alteration in your face that a train of thought had been started. —Doyle
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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