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maculate

[mak-yuh-lit, mak-yuh-leyt] / ˈmæk yə lɪt, ˈmæk yəˌleɪt /








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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Transubstantiation or consubstantiation, conception, maculate or immaculate, were a matter of small moment with him.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 335, September 1843 by Various

Of this half-hundred a few are used in Shakespeare, but not at present, as verbs; thus, to maculate, to miracle, to mud, to mist, to mischief, to moral—also merchandized and musicked.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880. by Various

The room was long, dark, narrow, slovenly, spaced with tables on which were maculate cloths and lamps with faded shades.

From The Paliser case by Saltus, Edgar




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