Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Defiling; staining.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Causing a spot or stain.
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- adjective
Causing aspot orstain .
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Examples
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Deeply touched that this young girl should have cared -- that she should have expressed her solicitude so modestly, so sweetly, concerning the maculatory condition of my cigar, I thanked her and purchased, for the same sum, a packet of cigarettes.
Police!!! Henry Hutt 1899
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