v. Obs. [ad. L. coinquināt- pple. stem of coinquināre to defile all over, f. co- together (with intensive force) + inquināre to defile. Cf. F. coïnquiner (in Cotgr.).] trans. To soil all over, pollute, defile. lit. and fig.
a. 1528. Skelton, Col. Cloute, 705. Suche maner of sysmatykes And halfe heretykes … That wolde coinquinate, That wolde contaminate … The Church’s hygh estates.
1604. Parsons, 3rd Pt. Three Convers. Eng., xviii. 403. That the Readers mynd must remayne heere poysoned, and coinquinated with these dregges sett before him by Iohn Fox.
1652. Gaule, Magastrom., 179. Their very speculations are expressly coinquinated with much in all these.
