Word Meanings - MACULATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The act of spotting; a spot; a blemish. Shak.
Related words: (words related to MACULATION)
- SPOTTEDNESS
State or quality of being spotted. - BLEMISHLESS
Without blemish; spotless. A life in all so blemishless. Feltham. - SPOTTED
Marked with spots; as, a spotted garment or character. "The spotted panther." Spenser. Spotted fever , a name applied to various eruptive fevers, esp. to typhus fever and cerebro-spinal meningitis. -- Spotted tree , an Australian tree ; -- so - SPOTTER
One who spots. - SPOTTINESS
The state or quality of being spotty. - BLEMISHMENT
The state of being blemished; blemish; disgrace; damage; impairment. For dread of blame and honor's blemishment. Spenser. - BLEMISH
injure, soil, F. blêmir to grow pale, fr. OF. bleme, blesme, pale, wan, F. blême, prob. fr. Icel blaman the livid color of a wound, fr. blar blue; akin to E. blue. OF. blemir properly signifies to beat one 1. To mark with deformity; to injure - SPOTTY
Full of spots; marked with spots. - EYESPOTTED; EYE-SPOTTED
Marked with spots like eyes. Junno's bird, in her eye-spotted train. Spenser. - UNSPOTTED
Not spotted; free from spot or stain; especially, free from moral stain; unblemished; immaculate; as, an unspotted reputation. -- Un*spot"ted*ness, n. - CINQUE-SPOTTED
Five-spotted. Shak. - UNBLEMISHED
Not blemished; pure; spotless; as, an unblemished reputation or life. Addison.