~ ADULT  id+ NURTURER
             MATURE  RIPE  AGED or DEVELOPED
  lat ADULTUS = ADULT
      AD        TOWARD               sug> NUTRIENT
        ALERE   NOURISHER            sug> ADOLESCENT
  note  SOME POINT OUT THE OPPPOSITE perhaps CHILDREN
        INDUCE ADULTS TO MATURE AND BECOME NURTURING
  note SPINSTERS TEND TO BE SELFISH
  myth> among MAGIC NUMBERS IS THE AGE OF 21 YEARS [90]
        CONSIDERED AS A LANDMARK OF MATURITY or ADULTHOOD
  ply> | we grant that ADULTERATE is unrelated to ADULT
         since it denotes ALTERED BY OLD as in OLDER
         nonetheless  ADULTS ADULTERATE |     


~ ADULTERATE  TO ALTER or to be ALTERED
              PRONE TO MIX                 sug> PROMISCUOUS
     CORRUPT  DEBASE  DEFILE  VITIATE  CONTAMINATE
     SUBSTITUTED             opp of FIDEL FIDELITY
     lat ALTER = ANOTHER
     eng ADULT   is unrelated to ADULTERATE
     ply> | AGE ALTERS  it also ADULTERATES ADULTS |
     hx>    EARLY AND CURRENT CHRISTIAN DOGMAS link
            ADULTERY with SEX or SIN
            LOVE          FIDELITY and FAMILY
     hx> in USA nearly 50% OF CHILDREN ARE BORN
            TO SINGLE MOTHERS or IN ADULTERY
            med> nearly 10% OF "LEGAL" or 
                 LEGITIMATE BIRTHS IN TRUTH TARE 
              "BASTARDS" as in see> BARN
~ ADULTERER   id+ UNFAITHFUL
              hx> formerly ONLY MALES COULD BE ADULTERERS
  note SINGLE MALES WHO HAD SEXUAL RELATIONS WITH
  A WOMAN OF ANOTHER ADULTERATED A WIFE OF ANOTHER
  ADULTERATING MEN WERE PUNISHED
  WOMEN WERE DENOUNCED or BANISHED
  in sp      DENUNCIA  =  ANNOUNCEMENT     sug>   NUNCIO
  ply> | ADULTS ADULTERATE ADULTHOOD |     sug> ANNOUNCER