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maculate

[ adjective mak-yuh-lit; verb mak-yuh-leyt ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

, Archaic.

, mac·u·lat·ed, mac·u·lat·ing.

maculate

1375–1425; late Middle English < Latin maculātus (past participle of maculāre to spot, stain). See macula, -ate ¹

C15: from Latin maculāre to stain

Josephina owns one unchanging dress, septic, maculate and repellent.

We are maculate, and it is given to no man to probe the mystery of existence.

But the tears and blood which follow violence and wrong maculate the pages of history on which their glory is recorded.

Maculate -ed: spotted or marked with figures of any shape, of a color different from the ground.

He has never decided whether His mother came into the world maculate or immaculate.

April 25, 2024firkin

[fur-kin ]

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