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▪ I. † coˈmmaculate, ppl. a. Obs.
[ad. L. commaculāt-us, pa. pple. of commaculāre to stain or defile all over, f. com- intensive + maculāre to spot, stain.]
Stained or defiled all over.
1570Maddeis Proclam. in Sempill Ballates (1872) 101 With blude commaculate. 1646Buck Rich. III 9 A Character (not so commaculate and mixt as passionate and purblinde pens have dasht it).
▪ II. † coˈmmaculate, v. Obs.
[see prec. and -ate3.]
trans. To stain, spot, or defile all over. Chiefly fig.
1616R. C. Times' Whis. vii. 3046 Sinne, that doth commaculate The soule of man. 1666Collins in Rigaud Corr. Sci. Men (1841) II. 462 Commaculated with dirt or ink. 1684N. S. Crit. Enq. Edit. Bible iii. 17 Those differences of Readings which..commaculated the holy Text.
Hence † commacuˈlation, defilement, stain.
1637Bastwick Litany iv. 3 So farre they were from any commaculation of vice. |