Alter

Alter (alter)
v. t.	((?))
Al"ter
[imp. ** p. p.* Altered (&?]); p. pr. ** vb. n.* Altering.] [F. alté]rer, LL. alterare, fr. L. alter other, alius other. Cf. Else, Other.]

To make otherwise; to change in some respect, either partially or wholly; to vary; to modify.

"To alter the king's course." "To alter the condition of a man." "No power in Venice can alter a decree." Shak.

It gilds all objects, but it alters none.
Pope.

My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.
Ps. lxxxix. 34.

To agitate; to affect mentally.

[Obs.] Milton.

To geld.

[Colloq.]

Syn. -- Change, Alter. Change is generic and the stronger term. It may express a loss of identity, or the substitution of one thing in place of another; alter commonly expresses a partial change, or a change in form or details without destroying identity.

Alter

Alter (alter)
v. i.
Al"ter

To become, in some respects, different; to vary; to change; as, the weather alters almost daily; rocks or minerals alter by exposure.

"The law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not." Dan. vi. 8.

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