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单词 macule
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maculen.

Brit. /ˈmakjuːl/, U.S. /ˈmækjul/
Forms: late Middle English 1800s– macule; Scottish pre-1700 macle, pre-1700 macull, pre-1700 makill, pre-1700 makle, 1800s– macule.
Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Partly formed within English, by conversion. Etymons: French macule ; Latin macula ; macule v.
Etymology: < Middle French macule blemish, mark, stain (beginning of the 14th cent., earliest in figurative use; French macule ) and its etymon classical Latin macula macula n. In sense 2 < macule v.; compare French macule (1798, rare). Compare macula n.
1.
a. A blemish or spot. Now rare except in sense 1b.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > soiled condition > [noun] > spotted condition > spot
speckc725
moleeOE
spot?c1225
wen1340
spleck1398
tachea1400
motec1400
macule?a1425
smot1532
fleck1598
iron mould1638
flecket1684
sye1781
?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 105v (MED) Of sikenez of cornee..First of maculez, i. spottys, after of catharactez.
1484 W. Caxton tr. G. de la Tour-Landry Bk. Knight of Tower (1971) cxiv. 152 It is a perle, whiche is..wythoute macule or spotte.
a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 83 Haile, moder and maide but makle.
a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 167 But ony spot or macull doing spring.
1568 in W. T. Ritchie Bannatyne MS f. 29v But macull.
a1600 (?c1535) tr. H. Boece Hist. Scotl. (Mar Lodge) xiv. xvi. f. 571v, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Macull The Emprioure Henry..defendit his dignite but spot or makill of dishonour.
1960 V. Nabokov Invitation to Beheading xi. 111 Various images of life would come and go, pausing among the green macules of light.
b. Medicine. A flat circumscribed area of skin discoloration.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > blemish > [noun] > spot or mark
spotOE
markOE
tachea1400
macula?a1425
ruby1542
plotch1548
flea-biting1552
fleck1598
blanch1608
staina1616
naeve1619
neve1624
dark1637
sunspot1651
pip1676
liver spot1684
beauty spot1795
heat-spot1822
spilus1822
ink-spot1839
punctation1848
punctuation1848
macule1864
soldier's spots1874
pock1894
mouche1959
1864 Edinb. Med. Jrnl. 9 ii. 931 Skin diseases..1. Macules and Deformities.
1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VIII. 465 The eruption commonly consists of macules.
1968 H. O. Mackey & J. P. Mackey Handbk. Dis. Skin (ed. 9) iii. 9 Macules are non-elevated discolorations of the skin, of various shapes, sizes and colours... Papules are small solid, circumscribed elevations of the skin.
1977 Ann. Internal Med. 86 689 (caption) The lesions began as red macules or papules that expanded to form large rings.
1989 J. A. B. Collier & J. M. Longmore Oxf. Handbk. Clin. Specialties (ed. 2) iii. 216 Malaise, fever, followed few days later by rash (macules—vesicles—pustules).
2. Printing. = mackle n. Obsolete.
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society > communication > printing > printed matter > arrangement or appearance of printed matter > [noun] > blur or smudge
monk1683
mackle1706
slur1770
macule1841
shake1888
workup1948
hickey1961
1841 W. Savage Dict. Art of Printing 775 Instead of its being a macule, it is nothing more than that part of the blanket which had covered the short cross of other work.
1888 C. T. Jacobi Printer's Vocab. 88 Mackle, a printed sheet with a slurred appearance, owing to the frisket dragging, or a defect in the impression. Macule, see Mackle.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

maculev.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French maculer.
Etymology: < Middle French, French maculer (1488; 12th cent. in Old French in past participle; 1636 spec. to smudge leaves newly printed) < classical Latin maculāre maculate v. With sense 2 compare earlier mackle v.1 N.E.D. (1904) gives the pronunciation as (mæ·kiul) /ˈmækjuːl/.
Obsolete.
1. transitive. To stain or taint (a person or thing).
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > damage to reputation > sullying or staining of reputation > stain or sully [verb (transitive)]
filea1325
foulc1330
tache1390
dark?c1400
distain1406
smita1413
blemish1414
black?c1425
defoul1470
maculate?a1475
macule1484
tan1530
staina1535
spota1542
smear1549
blot1566
besmear1579
defile1581
attaint1590
soila1596
slubber1599
tack1601
woad1603
besmirch1604
blur1604
to breathe upon ——1608
be-smut1610
clouda1616
sullya1616
taint1623
smutch1640
blackena1649
to cast, put, throw (etc.) a slur on or upon (a person or thing)1654
beslur1675
tarnish1695
blackwash1762
carbonify1792
smirch1820
tattoo1884
dirten1987
1484 W. Caxton tr. Subtyl Historyes & Fables Esope f. cxxiiii I byleue not that this poure [man] may be maculed ne gylty of the blame.
?1518 Kalender of Shepardes (new ed.) sig. F viii For suche synne is all stynkyng & maculeth the body & soule.
2. transitive and intransitive. Printing = mackle v.1 rare.
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society > communication > printing > manner or style of printing > style of printing [verb (transitive)] > blur or smudge
slur1683
macule1841
mackle1867
1841 W. Savage Dict. Art of Printing (at cited word) If the joints of the tympan, or the head, or the nut of the spindle be loose, or any accident happen in pulling, so that the impression be somewhat doubled, and not clear, it is said to be maculed.
1841 W. Savage Dict. Art of Printing 775 I have heard many complaints of the middle pages of a twelves form maculing at a two-pull press.
1867 Fry Playing-Card Terms in Philol. Soc. Trans. 56 To Mackle, To Macule, v. a. To spot, stain, soil; to set off newly printed or painted work.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2000; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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