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Webster 1913 Edition
Alteration
Alˊter-a′tion
,Noun.
[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
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 1828 Edition
Alteration
ALTERA'TION
,Noun.
The act of making different, or of varying in some particular; an altering or partial change; also the change made, or the loss or acquisition of qualities not essential to the form or nature of a thing. Thus a cold substance suffers an alteration when it becomes hot.