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maculate

[mak-yuh-lit, mak-yuh-leyt] / ˈmæk jə lɪt, ˈmæk jəˌleɪt /








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Among the robin's maculate cousins, "the reddish tail is the hermit thrush's mark."

From Time Magazine Archive

But his limitations were a virtue because his target was so big -- and so maculate.

From Time Magazine Archive

From this black hour, this curse anointing hour, The currents of thy heart are all corrupt; The motions of thy thoughts are serpentine; And thy death-doing and bedabbled soul Is maculate with spots of Erebus.

From The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 by Various

Are the diplomatic corps less maculate than in the days of Grenville Murray?

From Without Prejudice by Israel Zangwill

And I was shown in that Vision the Calvaries of maternity common to all, whether the conception be immaculate, so-called if within the law, or maculate, so-called if without the law.

From A Cry in the Wilderness by Mary E. (Mary Ella) Waller

That done, he returned, happily unrecognized, rumpled & maculated, to the Morrow dinner.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sidewalks began to be maculated with spreading areas of dryness, but the roadway was still wet and shining, the wide black mirror of a myriad lights.

From The False Faces Further Adventures from the History of the Lone Wolf by Louis Joseph Vance

Ten priests, in white vestments, maculated with red, stepped out to the centre of the altar.

From Sulamith: A Romance of Antiquity by A. I. (Aleksandr Ivanovich) Kuprin

A shell had maculated the wall on each side and above the statue, but the little niche and canopy were quite untouched.

From A Volunteer Poilu by Henry Beston

For, instead of a siliceous ground, maculated with the rhombic feld-spar, which is the common state of porphyry, the ground is uniformly crystallised, or a homogeneous regular feld-spar, maculated with the transparent siliceous substance.

From Theory of the Earth, Volume 1 (of 4) by James Hutton




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