ppl. a. [f. ALTER + -ED.]

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  1.  Made otherwise, changed in some particulars.

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a. 1400.  Chester Plays, I. 6. Not altered in many poyntes from the olde fashion.

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1549.  Compl. Scotl., vii. 70. It vas baytht altrit in cullour ande in beaulte.

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1699.  Dryden, Pal. & Arc., I. 562. And gazing there, beheld his alter’d look.

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1725.  Pope, Odyss., X. 529. Shame touch’d Eurylochus’s alter’á breast.

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1866.  G. Macdonald, Ann. Q. Neighb., xviii. 356. I have been an altered character ever since I knew you.

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1870.  Jevons, Elem. Logic, xxvii. 235. We can see the stars in slightly altered positions.

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  † 2.  Thirsty. (Cf. Fr. altéré ‘dry, athirst, almost dried up,’ Cotgr., 1611; and see quot. dated 1605 under ALTERING ppl. a. 2. In this sense Diez suggests a confusion with med.L. arteriātus.) Obs.

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1602.  Warner, Alb. Eng., XII. lxx. (1612), 295. And here mine altred Muse this theame surceaseth to pursue.

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1653.  Urquhart, Rabelais, II. vii. So altered, and a dry with drinking these flat wines, that they did nothing but spit.

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