conspurcate

English

Etymology

From Latin conspurcatus, past participle of conspurcare.

Verb

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

(transitive, obsolete) To pollute; to defile.
- 1617, Francis White, The Orthodox Faith and Way to the Church […] :
  […] conspurcate and vilifie their glorious naine
- c. 1600, Katherine Randall, Super-Infinite […] :
  somebody most beastly did conspurcate and shit upon his gown from the galleries above

Related terms

conspurcation

References

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

Latin

Participle

cōnspurcāte

vocative masculine singular of cōnspurcātus