Obs. [f. prec., or on analogy of vbs. so formed.] A by-form of ALTER.
c. 1475. Pol. Poems, II. 287. That theyre pover levyng … May be altratyd unto welth.
1530. Palsgr., 421/1. I alterate, I alter, I chaunge, Je altere.
1549. Chaloner, trans. Erasm. Moriæ Enc., T ij b. Those holy men shall be altogether transformed and alterated.
a. 1618. Sylvester, Myst. Mysterie, 24 (1880), II. 316. No outward Force … Can Thy drad Essence alterate.
1655. Culpepper, Riverius, VII. i. 152. Expectorating Medicines, and the rest are to be alterated for the same reason.
1693. W. Robertson, Phraseol. Gen., To Alter, alterate or change.
