maculate

English

Verb

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

1. To spot; to stain; to blur.

Translations

To spot; to stain; to blur

Russian: загрязнять (ru), пачкать (ru)

Adjective

maculate (comparative more maculate, superlative most maculate)

1. Marked with spots or maculae; blotched.
2. Defiled; impure.
   • 1998 May 25, in 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.

Translations

Marked with spots or maculae; blotched

Russian: пятнистый (ru)

Defiled; impure

Russian: грязный (ru)

References

• maculate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

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Italian

Adjective

maculate f.

1. Feminine plural form of maculato

Anagrams

• calumate

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Latin

Participle

maculāte

1. vocative masculine singular of maculātus