altera

a. [ Cf. F. altérable. ] Capable of being altered. [ 1913 Webster ]

Our condition in this world is mutable and uncertain, alterable by a thousand accidents. Rogers. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being alterable; variableness; alterability. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an alterable manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ LL. alterans, p. pr.: cf. F. altérant. ] Altering; gradually changing. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An alterative. [ R. ] Chambers. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. altération. ] 1. The act of altering or making different. [ 1913 Webster ]

Alteration, though it be from worse to better, hath in it incoveniences. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The state of being altered; a change made in the form or nature of a thing; changed condition. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ere long might perceive
Strange alteration in me. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Appius Claudius admitted to the senate the sons of those who had been slaves; by which, and succeeding alterations, that council degenerated into a most corrupt. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. alterativus: cf. F. altératif. ] Causing ateration. Specifically: Gradually changing, or tending to change, a morbid state of the functions into one of health. Burton. [ 1913 Webster ]