maculate

From Latin maculātus, past participle of maculāre (“to spot”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmakjʊleɪt/

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maculate (third-person singular simple present maculates, present participle maculating, simple past and past participle maculated)

1. To spot; to stain; to blur.
   • 1531, Thomas Elyot, edited by Ernest Rhys, The Boke Named the Governour  (Everyman’s Library), London: J M Dent & Co; New York, N.Y.: E P Dutton & Co, published , →OCLC:

     they wolde nat maculate the honour of their people with suche a reproche

   • 1918, Louis Joseph Vance, “Chapter 21”, in The False Faces:

     There was a fresh smell in the air. Sidewalks began to be maculated with spreading areas of dryness

maculate (comparative more maculate, superlative most maculate)

1. Marked with spots or maculae; blotched.
2. Defiled; impure.
   • 1998 May 25, The New Republic:

     [Les Misérables is] about the struggle of a mistreated man as he rises to the top, along with a mortal conflict between this maculate virtuous man and an immaculate pursuing demon.

• “maculate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

maculate

1. feminine plural of maculato

• calumate, malcaute

maculāte

1. vocative masculine singular of maculātus

maculate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of macular combined with te