maculate

Oct. 4th, 2007 07:15 am
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maculate - adj., spotted, blotched, stained, impure.


Both physical and moral stains. More commonly seen in the form immaculate. From Middle English maculaten, from Latin maculāre, to make spotted, to speckle, from macula, spot, stain.

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