| 释义 |
† coˈinquinate, v. Obs.
[ad. L. coinquināt- pple. stem of coinquināre to defile all over, f. co- together (with intensive force) + inquināre to defile. Cf. F. coïnquiner (in Cotgr.).]
trans. To soil all over, pollute, defile. lit. and fig.
a1528Skelton Col. Cloute 705 Suche maner of sysmatykes And halfe heretykes..That wolde coinquinate, That wolde contaminate..The Church's hygh estates. 1604Parsons 3 Conversions iii. xviii. 403 That the reader's mynd must remayne heere poysoned, and coinquinated with these dregs sett before him. 1652Gaule Magastrom. 179 Their very speculations are expressly coinquinated with much in all these. |