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adultery 音標拼音: [əd'ʌltɚi] n. 通奸 通姦 adultery n 1: extramarital sex that willfully and maliciously interferes with marriage relations; " adultery is often cited as grounds for divorce" [ synonym: { adultery}, { criminal conversation}, { fornication}] Adultery \ A* dul" ter* y\, n.; pl. { Adulteries}. [ L. adulterium. See { Advoutry}.] 1. The unfaithfulness of a married person to the marriage bed; sexual intercourse by a married man with another than his wife, or voluntary sexual intercourse by a married woman with another than her husband. [ 1913 Webster] Note: It is adultery on the part of the married wrongdoer. The word has also been used to characterize the act of an unmarried participator, the other being married. In the United States the definition varies with the local statutes. Unlawful intercourse between two married persons is sometimes called { double adultery}; between a married and an unmarried person, { single adultery}. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Adulteration; corruption. [ Obs.] -- B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster] 3. ( Script.) ( a) Lewdness or unchastity of thought as well as act, as forbidden by the seventh commandment. ( b) Faithlessness in religion. -- Jer. iii. 9. [ 1913 Webster] 4. ( Old Law) The fine and penalty imposed for the offense of adultery. [ 1913 Webster] 5. ( Eccl.) The intrusion of a person into a bishopric during the life of the bishop. [ 1913 Webster] 6. Injury; degradation; ruin. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] You might wrest the caduceus out of my hand to the adultery and spoil of nature. -- B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster] 71 Moby Thesaurus words for " adultery": act of love, adulterous affair, affair, amour, aphrodisia, ass, balling, carnal knowledge, climax, cohabitation, coition, coitus, coitus interruptus, commerce, concubinage, congress, connection, copula, copulation, coupling, criminal conversation, cuckoldry, diddling, entanglement, eternal triangle, extracurricular sex, extramarital relations, flirtation, forbidden love, fornication, free love, free- lovism, hanky- panky, illicit love, incest, infidelity, intercourse, intimacy, intrigue, liaison, love affair, lovemaking, making it with, marital relations, marriage act, mating, meat, onanism, orgasm, ovum, pareunia, premarital relations, premarital sex, procreation, relations, romance, romantic tie, screwing, sex, sex act, sexual climax, sexual commerce, sexual congress, sexual intercourse, sexual relations, sexual union, sleeping with, sperm, triangle, unfaithfulness, veneryAdultery conjugal infidelity. An adulterer was a man who had illicit intercourse with a married or a betrothed woman, and such a woman was an adulteress. Intercourse between a married man and an unmarried woman was fornication. Adultery was regarded as a great social wrong, as well as a great sin. The Mosaic law ( Num. 5: 11- 31) prescribed that the suspected wife should be tried by the ordeal of the " water of jealousy." There is, however, no recorded instance of the application of this law. In subsequent times the Rabbis made various regulations with the view of discovering the guilty party, and of bringing about a divorce. It has been inferred from John 8: 1- 11 that this sin became very common during the age preceding the destruction of Jerusalem. Idolatry, covetousness, and apostasy are spoken of as adultery spiritually ( Jer. 3: 6, 8, 9; Ezek. 16: 32; Hos. 1: 2: 3; Rev. 2: 22). An apostate church is an adulteress ( Isa. 1: 21; Ezek. 23: 4, 7, 37), and the Jews are styled " an adulterous generation" ( Matt. 12: 39). ( Comp. Rev. 12.) ADULTERY, criminal law. From ad and alter, another person; a criminalconversation, between a man married to another woman, and a woman married toanother man, or a married and unmarried person. The married person is guiltyof adultery, the unmarried of fornication. ( q. v.) 1 Yeates, 6; 2 Dall. 124; but see 2 Blackf. 318. 2. The elements of this crime are, 1st, that there shall be an unlawfulcarnal connexion; 2dly, that the guilty party shall at the time be married; 3dly, that he or she shall willingly commit the offence; for a woman who hasbeen ravished against her will is not guilty of adultery. Domat, Supp. duDroit Public, liv. 3, t. 10, n. 13. 3. The punishment of adultery, in the United States, generally, is fineand imprisonment. 4. In England it is left to the feeble hands of the ecclesiasticalcourts to punish this offence. 5. Adultery in one of the married persons is good cause for obtaining adivorce by the innocent partner. See 1 Pick. 136; 8 Pick. 433; 9 Mass. 492: 14 Pick. 518; 7 Greenl. 57; 8 Greenl. 75; 7 Conn. 267 10 Conn. 372; 6 Verm. 311; 2 Fairf. 391 4 S. & R. 449; 5 Rand. 634; 6 Rand. 627; 8 S. & R. 159; 2Yeates, 278, 466; 4 N. H. Rep. 501; 5 Day, 149; 2 N. & M. 167. 6. As to proof of adultery, see 2 Greenl. Sec. 40, Marriage.
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