maculate

Latin maculatus, past participle of maculare (“to spot”).

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, Ernest Rhys, editor, The Boke Named the Governour […] (Everyman’s Library), London: J[oseph] M[alaby] Dent & Co; New York, N.Y.: E[dward] P[ayson] Dutton & Co, published [1907], OCLC 1026313858:

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

   • 1918, Louis Joseph Vance, The False Faces Chapter 21

     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, 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.

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

maculate

1. feminine plural of maculato

• calumate, malcaute

maculāte

1. vocative masculine singular of maculātus