Maculate \Mac"u*late\, a. [L. maculatus, p. p.]
Marked with spots or maculae; blotched; hence, defiled;
impure; as, most maculate thoughts. --Shak.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Maculate \Mac"u*late\, v. t. [L. maculatus, p. p. of maculare to
spot. See Macula, and cf. Macule, v.]
To spot; to stain; to blur.
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Maculate the honor of their people. --Sir T.
Elyot.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
maculate
adj 1: morally blemished; stained or impure [syn: defiled]
2: spotted or blotched
v 1: make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air; also used
metaphorically; "The silver was tarnished by the long
exposure to the air"; "Her reputation was sullied after
the affair with a married man" [syn: tarnish, stain,
sully, defile]
2: spot, stain, or pollute; "The townspeople defiled the river
by emptying raw sewage into it" [syn: foul, befoul, defile]
WordNet (r) 2.0
51 Moby Thesaurus words for "maculate":
besmirched, bespangled, bespeckled, blotched, blotchy, defiled,
dotted, dotty, flea-bitten, flecked, fleckered, frecked,
freckle-faced, freckled, freckly, impure, indecent, macular,
maculated, patchy, peppered, pocked, pockmarked, pocky, pointille,
pointillistic, polka-dot, punctated, smirched, soiled, spangled,
spattered, specked, speckled, speckledy, speckly, splashed,
splattered, splotched, splotchy, spotted, spotty, sprinkled,
stippled, studded, sullied, tainted, unchaste, unclean, unvirginal,
unvirtuous
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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