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ˈinquinate, v.
[f. ppl. stem of L. inquināre to pollute, etc. Cf. obs. F. inquiner (1519 in Godef.).]
trans. To pollute, defile, corrupt.
1542Becon Christm. Banquet in Early Wks. (1843) 69 We are..inquinated, spotted, and defiled. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. iii. vii. 121 An old opinion it was of that Nation, that the Ibis feeding upon Serpents, that venemous food so inquinated their..egges within their bodies, that they sometimes came forth in Serpentine shapes. 1661Lovell Hist. Anim. & Min. 345 False visions are from the vice of the aqueous humour, inquinated by vapours or humours. 1682Sir T. Browne Chr. Mor. ii. §7 The soul may be foully inquinated at a very low rate, and a man may be cheaply vitious, to the perdition of himself. 1918H. W. Steed in 19th Cent. Dec. 987 It is surely enough that some of these stipulations should..have needlessly protracted the War, without their being allowed to inquinate the peace.
Hence † ˈinquinated ppl. a., polluted, corrupt; ˈinquinating ppl. a.
1592Chettle Kind-harts Dr. (1841) 15 These impes of iniquitie..draw whole heapes to hearken to their inquinated cries. 1649J. H. Motion to Parl. Adv. Learn. 39 These inquinated prejudices of education. 1650tr. Caussin's Ang. Peace 85 The inquinated times of the Hebrew Kings. 1914C. Mackenzie Sinister St. II. iv. iv. 914 Street followed street, each one..being a little less able to resist the corrosion of a persistently inquinating migration. |