Definition of "maculate"

maculate

verb
third-person singular simple present maculates, present participle maculating, simple past and past participle maculated
1. To spot; to stain; to blur.
  Quotations
  they wolde nat maculate the honour of their people with suche a reproche
  1531, Thomas Elyot, edited by Ernest Rhys, The Boke Named the Governour […] (Everyman’s Library), London: J[oseph] M[alaby] Dent & Co; New York, N.Y.: E[dward] P[ayson] Dutton & Co, published
  There was a fresh smell in the air. Sidewalks began to be maculated with spreading areas of dryness
  1918, Louis Joseph Vance, “Chapter 21”, in The False Faces
adjective
comparative more maculate, superlative most maculate
1. Marked with spots or maculae; blotched.
2. Defiled; impure.
  Quotations
  [Les Misérables is] about the struggle of a mistreated man as he rises to the top, along with a mortal conflict between this maculate virtuous man and an immaculate pursuing demon.
  1998 May 25, The New Republic