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maculate

[mak-yuh-lit, mak-yuh-layt] / ˈmæk jə lɪt, ˈmæk jəˌleɪt /








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But his limitations were a virtue because his target was so big -- and so maculate.

From Time Magazine Archive

Among the robin's maculate cousins, "the reddish tail is the hermit thrush's mark."

From Time Magazine Archive

Of this half-hundred a few are used in Shakespeare, but not at present, as verbs; thus, to maculate, to miracle, to mud, to mist, to mischief, to moral—also merchandized and musicked.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880. by Various

Are the diplomatic corps less maculate than in the days of Grenville Murray?

From Without Prejudice by Israel Zangwill

From this black hour, this curse anointing hour, The currents of thy heart are all corrupt; The motions of thy thoughts are serpentine; And thy death-doing and bedabbled soul Is maculate with spots of Erebus.

From The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 by Various

That done, he returned, happily unrecognized, rumpled & maculated, to the Morrow dinner.

From Time Magazine Archive

The posters, maculated with filth, garnished like tapestry the sweep of the curbstone. 

From The Secret Agent a Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad

A few drops of lukewarm water maculated the sidewalks with spots as big as dollars.

From Joan Thursday by Louis Joseph Vance

Sidewalks began to be maculated with spreading areas of dryness, but the roadway was still wet and shining, the wide black mirror of a myriad lights.

From The False Faces Further Adventures from the History of the Lone Wolf by Louis Joseph Vance

For, instead of a siliceous ground, maculated with the rhombic feld-spar, which is the common state of porphyry, the ground is uniformly crystallised, or a homogeneous regular feld-spar, maculated with the transparent siliceous substance.

From Theory of the Earth, Volume 1 (of 4) by James Hutton


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