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▪ I. maculate, ppl. a.|ˈmækjʊleɪt|
[ad. L. maculāt-us, pa. pple. of maculāre, f. macula spot.]
= maculated; in early use occas. pa. pple. Now chiefly lit. and poet., in expressed or implied antithesis to immaculate.
1490Caxton Eneydos iv. 20 So departe thou thenne fro this londe, maculate, and full of fylthe and ordure. 1509Barclay Shyp of Folys (1570) 144 The places that ye haue edified, Are nowe disordred, and with vices maculate. 1549Compl. Scot. xiii. 150 That the honour of verteous gentil men be nocht maculat vitht the vice ande inciuilite of vicius pretendit gentil men. 1575–85Abp. Sandys Serm. vii. 122 Hauing cloathed ourselves with the maculate coate of sinne. 1612Two Noble K. v. iii, Thy rare greene eye..never yet Beheld things maculate. 1756–7tr. Keysler's Trav. (1760) I. 74 The cardinal of St. Clemente hurt himself by declaring for the maculate conception. 1878N. Amer. Rev. CXXVII. 296 Unfortunately for her already maculate reputation. 1887Stevenson Misadv. J. Nicholson ii, Foul walls and maculate table linen. 1919T. S. Eliot Sweeney among Nightingales in Poems, The zebra stripes along his jaw Swelling to maculate giraffe. 1932W. Faulkner Light in August (1933) xiii. 300 Leaning in the window, breathing the hot still rich maculate smell of the earth. 1964C. S. Lewis Discarded Image vii. 161 In Shakespeare's Lucrece we need to know fully who the ‘spotted princess’ (719–28) is: Tarquin's Reason, rightful sovereign of his soul, now maculate. 1965E. Bishop Questions of Travel 22 House, open house..Darkened and tarnished By the warm touch Of the warm breath, Maculate, cherished, Rejoice!
▪ II. maculate, v. Now rare.|ˈmækjʊleɪt|
pa. tense 5 maculate.
[f. L. maculāt-, ppl. stem of maculāre, f. macula spot.]
trans. To spot, stain, soil, defile, pollute.
1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) V. 235 Whiche commynge to Affrike wastede hit, and maculate [Trevisa defouled] the feithe in hit. 1481Caxton Godfrey clxxxvii. 274 The hethen men..whiche had fowled and shamefully had maculated [the place] with theyr mahometry. 1490― Eneydos viii. 35 Hir innocente blood whiche maculate & bysprange all theym that stode by. 1513Bradshaw St. Werburge i. 2791 A sensuall prynce..Purposed to maculate this vyrgyn gloryous. 1531Elyot Gov. 1. xxvi, They wolde nat maculate the honour of their people. a1550Schole-house of Wom. 914 in Hazl. E.P.P. IV. 140 Whose drops vncleen dooth maculate The finest vesture that any man weres. 1632J. Hayward tr. Biondi's Eromena 28 Thou hast done too much in maculating our bloud. 1719D'Urfey Pills (1872) IV. 166 They maculate Men's Blood, and make them silly. 1737A. Baxter Inquiry Human Soul (ed. 2) II. 202 Lucretius tells us maculating dreams accompany youth. a1945E. R. Eddison Mezentian Gate (1972) ii. 21 That were to maculate the purity of your own proper nature. |