polluimus
Dictionary entries
- Entry →polluo, polluere, pollui, pollutus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Lesser
soil/foul/dirty/stain/pollute; infect (w/disease); make impure; break (fast);; violate; dishonor/defile/degrade (w/illicit sexual conduct/immoral actions);
pl. perf. act. ind. 1stpl. pres. act. ind. 1st
Examples
- M
XII
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...aliquo ad inferos conde. caelestes auras contaminato spiritu polluimus, et sideribus ac diei graves invidiam saeculo facimus. nullas..." - T
Liber VI
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...nihil pace deorum opus sit, omnes caerimonias polluimus. Volgo ergo pontifices, augures, sacrificuli reges creentur; cuilibet apicem Dialem..."