单词 | contaminate |
释义 | contaminateadj. archaic. Contaminated, defiled, sullied. (Formerly construed as past participle.) ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > pollution or defilement > [adjective] mixedc1300 pollutea1382 infectc1384 unpurea1398 fouledc1400 drossyc1420 polluteda1425 defouledc1440 dreggyc1440 feculent1471 filed1483 violate?c1500 feding1502 fly-blown1528 cankered1530 defiled1530 contagious1547 dregful1552 contaminatea1555 menstruous1560 dreggish1561 conspurcate1563 empoisoned1581 inquinated?1593 pollutionate1593 fly-bitten1598 impure1598 druggy1599 contaminated1609 transboundary1918 society > morality > moral evil > moral or spiritual degeneration > [adjective] > corrupted or corrupt > tainted or contaminated infecta1387 leprousa1425 contaminatea1555 contaminated1609 a1555 H. Latimer Serm. St. Stephen's Day in Frutefull Serm. (1572) f. 162v Shewing that all we be contaminate. 1610 J. Healey tr. St. Augustine Citie of God i. viii. 15 Their filthy and contaminate liues. a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) ii. ii. 136 Shouldst thou but heare..that this body consecrate to thee, By Ruffian Lust should be contaminate ? View more context for this quotation 1788 Sir W. Young in Duke of Buckingham Court George III (1853) I. 391 Declining Lady Tyrconnel's visits, as a Lady whose character is contaminate! 1869 R. Browning Ring & Bk. IV. x. 17 Filthy rags of speech..Tatters all too contaminate for use. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2019). contaminatev. a. transitive. To render impure by contact or mixture; to corrupt, defile, pollute, sully, taint, infect. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > pollution or defilement > pollute or defile [verb (transitive)] afileeOE besmiteeOE shenda950 befilec1000 bisulienc1200 defoulc1320 file1340 foilc1380 smota1387 lime1390 solwea1400 surda1400 infectc1425 filtha1450 poison?a1513 defile1530 polluve1533 inquinate1542 pollute1548 contaminate1563 bumfiddlec1595 impure1598 conspurcate1600 defoil1601 sullya1616 vilify1615 deturpate1623 impiate1623 defedate1628 dreg1628 contemerate1650 spot1741 empoison1775 society > morality > moral evil > moral or spiritual degeneration > degrading or impairing morally > degrade or impair morally [verb (transitive)] > corrupt > taint or infect smiteeOE besmiteeOE smitOE besmita1250 empoisonc1400 fadec1400 infect?c1400 attainta1529 leaven1534 inquinate1542 contaminate1563 taint1573 tack1601 beleper?a1625 1563 J. Foxe tr. C. Tunstall in Actes & Monuments 450/1 Whiche truely..will contaminate and infect the flocke..with moste deadly poyson and heresy. a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) iv. ii. 76 Shall we now, Contaminate our fingers, with base Bribes? View more context for this quotation 1671 J. Webster Metallographia viii. 124 Imperfect Metals infected or contaminated with terrestrial fœculency. 1764 O. Goldsmith Traveller 8 All evils here contaminate the mind. 1794 R. J. Sulivan View of Nature I. 247 Air that is contaminated by respiration. 1838 T. Thomson Chem. Org. Bodies 383 The foreign substances, with which the indigo is always contaminated. 1877 F. W. Farrar In Days of Youth (ed. 4) xv. 141 Physical evil may crush, but moral evil can alone contaminate. b. spec. (a) to subject to (the risk of) contamination by radioactivity; (b) to infect with poison gas; (c) Textual Criticism to subject to contamination (see contamination n. 1e). Cf. decontaminate v. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > pollution or defilement > environmental pollution > pollute the environment [verb (transitive)] > infect with poison gas contaminate1926 the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > pollution or defilement > environmental pollution > pollute the environment [verb (transitive)] > subject to (risk of) radioactive contamination contaminate1926 society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary and textual criticism > textual criticism > version of text > create version of text [verb (transitive)] > blend (texts) contaminate1926 1926 R. W. Lawson tr. G. von Hevesy & F. A. Paneth Man. Radioactivity 61 All objects in the neighbourhood of strong polonium preparations become contaminated. 1938 Protection of Home against Air Raids (H.M.S.O.) 25 Mustard gas..also ‘contaminates’ clothing, or other objects exposed to it, making them dangerous to have near you or to touch until they have been ‘decontaminated’. 1942 R. W. Chapman in Ess. & Stud. XXVII. 43 A manuscript B, copied from A, may have been corrected or ‘contaminated’..by reference to a third manuscript C. 1945 E. Waugh Brideshead Revisited 16 ‘We are being sprayed with liquid mustard-gas,’ I said... There were no casualties and nothing had been contaminated. 1949 Schweitzer & Whitney Radioactive Tracer Technique i. 5 The student..may easily get his hands contaminated and from this source may contaminate the laboratory. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < adj.a1555v.1563 |
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