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<hw>Al`ter*a"tion</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>alt\'82ration</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The act of altering or making different.</def>

<blockquote><b>Alteration</b>, though it be from worse to better, hath in it incoveniences. <i>Hooker.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The state of being altered; a change made in the form or nature of a thing; changed condition.</def>

<blockquote>Ere long might perceive Strange <b>alteration</b> in me. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Appius Claudius admitted to the senate the sons of those who had been slaves; by which, and succeeding <b>alterations</b>, that council degenerated into a most corrupt. <i>Swift.</i></blockquote>

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<hw>Al"ter*a*tive</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>alterativus</ets>: cf. F. <ets>alt\'82ratif</ets>.]</ety> <def>Causing ateration.</def> Specifically: <def>Gradually changing, or tending to change, a morbid state of the functions into one of health.</def>

<i>Burton.</i>

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<hw>Al"ter*a*tive</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A medicine or treatment which gradually induces a change, and restores healthy functions without sensible evacuations.</def>

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<hw>Al"ter*cate</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Altercated</er>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Altercating</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[L. <ets>altercatus</ets>, p. p. of <ets>altercare</ets>, <ets>altercari</ets>, fr. <ets>alter</ets> another. See <er>Alter</er>.]</ety> <def>The contend in words; to dispute with zeal, heat, or anger; to wrangle.</def>

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<hw>Al`ter*ca"tion</hw> <tt>(?; 277)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>altercation</ets>, fr. L. <ets>altercatio</ets>.]</ety> <def>Warm contention in words; dispute carried on with heat or anger; controversy; wrangle; wordy contest.</def> "Stormy <i>altercations</i>."

<i>Macaulay.</i>

<syn>Syn. -- <er>Altercation</er>, <er>Dispute</er>, <er>Wrangle</er>.</syn> <usage> The term <i>dispute</i> is in most cases, but not necessarily, applied to a verbal contest; <as>as, a <ex>dispute</ex> on the lawfulness of war</as>. An <i>altercation</i> is an angry dispute between two parties, involving an interchange of severe language. A <i>wrangle</i> is a confused and noisy altercation.</usage>

<blockquote>Their whole life was little else than a perpetual <b>wrangling</b> and <b>altercation</b>. <i>Hakewill.</i></blockquote>

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<hw>Al"ter*ca*tive</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Characterized by wrangling; scolding.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<i>Fielding.</i>

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<hw>Al*ter"i*ty</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>alt\'82rit\'82</ets>.]</ety> <def>The state or quality of being other; a being otherwise.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<blockquote>For outness is but the feeling of otherness (<b>alterity</b>) rendered intuitive, or <b>alterity</b> visually represented. <i>Coleridge.</i></blockquote>

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<hw>Al"tern</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>alternus</ets>, fr. <ets>alter</ets> another: cf. F. <ets>alterne</ets>.]</ety> <def>Acting by turns; alternate.</def>

<i>Milton.</cd></i>

<cs><col>Altern base</col> <fld>(Trig.)</fld>, <cd>a second side made base, in distinction from a side previously regarded as base.</cd></cs>

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