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Alter

AL'TER, v.t. [L. alter, another. See Alien.]
1. To make some change in; to make different in some particular; to vary in some degree, without an entire change.
My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that has gone out of my lips. Psa 89.
2. To change entirely or materially; as, to alter an opinion. In general, to alter is to change partially; to change is more generally to substitute one thing for another, or to make a material difference in a thing.
AL'TER, v.i. To become, in some respects, different; to vary; as, the weather alters almost daily.
The law which altereth not. Dan 4.
alter appears in definitions for these words:
A Admixtion Adulterate Alexandrine Alien Alligation Alter Alterability Alterableness Alterably Alterant Alteration Alterative Altercate Altercation Altern Alternal Alternate Alternateness Alternation Alternative Alternatively Alternativeness Alternity Amended Amending Amendment Amobean Amobeum Animal-flower Anthem Anthem-wise Antiphon Antiphonic Antiphony Apyrous Asperifoliate Bearing-cloth Bicker But Cacophony Cap Capable Cast Chalcedonyx Change Changeable Changeableness Changed Changeful Changeless Changer Changing Charcoal Checker-work Choice Chop Circle Coat Coction Color Combination Commutation Compound Conversion Copper Corrective Corrupt Countenance Countermarch Cringle Crude Decussated Deform Delegate Dialect Direction Disbelief Discolor Discoloration Discolored Discoloring Disguise Disjunctive Dispute Disputing Disuse Diversification Diversiified Either Elastic Emendation Emollescence Expository Extinguishment Falsity Fashion Fugue Geology Hand Heart Hellebore Hobble Hobnob Iambics Immortal Immovable Immutability Immutation Inalterability Inalterable Inequality Inflexibility Innovate Interchange Interchangeable Interchangeably Interfoliaceous Interline Interlining Invariably Invaried Isomorphism Jangle Lientery Logomachy Lung Make Manometer Mechanic Memphian Mend Metastasis Mixture Mutability Mutable Mutation Neonomian Nicene Numerous Obvolute Or Parody Pass Pedigree Phonocamptic Platinum Play Pleadings Propose Pushpin Quatrain Raw Reach Reciprocal Reciprocalness Reciprocate Reciprocation Recourseful Reduce Regimen Relieve Repand Responsory Revise Rheum Rip Roll Roster S Sail-maker Scale Scorpion Seize Sequence Session Severe Shift Shire Sparse Spice Spike Steddy Stickle Sting Strange Strangeness Strong Supernatural Surmise Survey Susceptible Table Tabling Taint Tarnish Tarnished Temperament Tiller Trough Turn Unalterable Unaltered Unchanged Unchanging Undergo Unmechanical Unmodifiable Unmodified Unmoved Unvariable Unvaried Unvarying Variable Variableness Variably Variance Variate Variation Varied Varvels Varying Veer Vibration Well-water Whether White-swelling Wrangle

 

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