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
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..."Liber VI
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...nihil pace deorum opus sit, omnes caerimonias polluimus. Volgo ergo pontifices, augures, sacrificuli reges creentur; cuilibet apicem Dialem..."