alterationn.[Cf. F. altration.]1. The act of altering or making different.()Alteration, though it be from worse to better, hath in it incoveniences. (Hooker.)2. The state of being altered; a change made in the form or nature of a thing; changed condition.()Ere long might perceive
Strange alteration in me. (Milton.)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.)