adulterine

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When any particular class of artificers or traders thought proper to act as a corporation without a charter, such were called adulterine guilds.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah

So he took over or demolished their adulterine castles and restored the fyrd, which was a military draft of every freeman to serve in defense of the realm.

From Our Legal Heritage June 2011 (Sixth) Edition by Reilly, S. A.

Yet in 1468 he married Joan of Portugal, and when she bore a daughter, first repudiated her as adulterine, and then claimed her for his own.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" by Various

The chapter compelled the offenders to swear, “holding the most Holy Gospels, that they will not henceforward keep any adulterine schools in the churches, nor teach boys song or music without license from the schoolmaster.”

From Education in England in the Middle Ages Thesis Approved for the Degree of Doctor of Science in the University of London by Parry, Albert William

No attempt, however, seems to have been made forcibly to dissolve the adulterine gilds.

From Education in England in the Middle Ages Thesis Approved for the Degree of Doctor of Science in the University of London by Parry, Albert William