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発音

• IPA: /ˈmækjʊleɪt/ (verb):
• IPA: /ˈmækjʊlət/ (adjective):
• 韻: -ækjʊleɪt, -ækjʊlət

動詞

maculate (third-person singular simple present maculates, present participle maculating, simple past and past participle maculated)

1. To spot; to stain; to blur.
   • 1531, Thomas Elyot, The Boke Named the Governour […], London: […] Tho[mas] Bertheleti, →OCLC:

     they wolde nat maculate the honour of their people with suche a reproche

   • 1918, Louis Joseph Vance, “Chapter 21”, in The False Faces:

     There was a fresh smell in the air. Sidewalks began to be maculated with spreading areas of dryness

派生語

形容詞

maculate (comparative more maculate, superlative most maculate) (now rare)

1. Marked with spots or maculae; blotched.
2. Defiled; impure.
   • 1998 May 25, The New Republic:

     [Les Misérables is] about the struggle of a mistreated man as he rises to the top, along with a mortal conflict between this maculate virtuous man and an immaculate pursuing demon.

参照

• “maculate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.