Noah Webster
Alter
AL'TER, verb transitive [Latin 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. Psalms 89:34.
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, verb intransitive To become, in some respects, different; to vary; as, the weather alters almost daily.
The law which altereth not. Daniel 4:1.