maculate
Dictionary entries
- Entry →maculo, maculare, maculavi, maculatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation
- Frequency:
- Lesser
spot; pollute; dishonor, taint;
voc. sg. perf. pass. part.pl. pres. act. imp. 2nd
Examples
- M
Liber VII
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...inde cadunt mortes. sceleris sed crimine nulloexternum maculant chalybem: stetit omne coactumcirca pila nefas. ferro subtexitur aethernoxque super..." 
Liber Nonus
Publius Papinius Statius from THEBAID
"...experte choris, cum Bacchica mugit buxus et insanae maculant trieterida matres?' dixerat; atque illi sese deus obtulit ultro..."- P
Aeneid III
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...huic atro liquuntur sanguine guttae et terram tabo maculant. mihi frigidus horror membra quatit gelidusque coit formidine sanguis..." - Q
Sermones I
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace) from Sermones
"...intentum veneri; tum inmundo somnia visu nocturnam vestem maculant ventremque supinum. quattuor hinc rapimur viginti et milia raedis..."