† Commaculate v.

Obs. [see prec. and -ATE³.] trans. To stain, spot, or defile all over. Chiefly fig.

1616.  R. C., Times’ Whis., VII. 3046. Sinne, that doth commaculate The soule of man.

1666.  Collins, in Rigaud, Corr. Sci. Men (1841), II. 462. Commaculated with dirt or ink.

1684.  N. S., Crit. Enq. Edit. Bible, iii. 17. Those differences of Readings which … commaculated the holy Text.

  Hence † Commaculation, defilement, stain.

1637.  Bastwick, Litany, IV. 3. So farre they were from any commaculation of vice.