conspurcate

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verb

To pollute; to defile.

Scrabble 17

Meanings

verbconspurcate (third-person singular simple present conspurcates, present participle conspurcating, simple past and past participle conspurcated)

present singular third person conspurcates · participle present conspurcating · participle past conspurcated · past conspurcated

  1. obsoletetransitiveTo pollute; to defile.

    […]conspurcate and vilifie their glorious naine

    1617, Francis White, The Orthodox Faith and Way to the Church […]
    1 more example

    somebody most beastly did conspurcate and shit upon his gown from the galleries above

    c. 1600, quoted by Katherine Rundell, Super-Infinite […]

Origin

  1. Latinconspurcatus
  2. Englishconspurcate

From Latin conspurcatus, past participle of conspurcare.

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Chicago

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