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.
   • Sir T. Elyot

     Maculate the honour of their people.

maculate (comparative more maculate, superlative most maculate)

1. Marked with spots or maculae; blotched.
   • 1994 July 25, Jack Winter, “How I met my wife”, in The New Yorker:

     Fortunately, the embarrassment that my maculate appearance might cause was evitable.

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

maculāte

1. vocative masculine singular of maculātus