#text corruption

• To adulterate — To falsify a substance, food, pharmaceutical, or commercial product by introducing foreign, inferior, or artificial elements to increase bulk or weight for illicit profit; to adulterate, corrupt, or debase. In philology and literary criticism, it signifies to alter the original meaning of a text, historical document, or artwork through unauthorized modifications or interpolations. As an archaic feminine adjective, it describes an adulterous woman.
• Adulterated — Falsified, contaminated, or debased by introducing foreign, unauthorized, or inferior substances, typically for illicit economic profit. In philology and literary criticism, the term qualifies a text, manuscript, or artwork whose original structure has been altered or compromised through unauthorized interpolations. As an archaic masculine adjective, it describes an adulterous man.