v. arch. [f. ADULTER sb. + -IZE. Cf. tyrannize, etc.] To commit adultery.
1611. Cotgr., Adulterer (Fr.), to commit adultery, to play the adulterer, to adulterize it.
1625. F. Markham, Booke of Honour, 190. Examine the Decalogue in the old Law … that saith ‘Doe not adulterize.’
1643. Milton, Divorce, II. xvii. 152. If the wife attempted … such things as gave open suspicion of adulterizing.
1871. F. J. Furnivall, pref. to Laneham’s Lett., 71. Other spiritual fathers … haunt ale-houses, adulterize with women.
