v. Obs. [f. L. ēmaculāt- ppl. stem of ēmaculāre to clear from blots, f. macula spot, blot.]
1. trans. To free from spots or blemishes, emend.
1623. Cockeram, Emaculate. To make cleane, to take out spots.
a. 1656. Hales, Gold. Rem. (1688), 348. Lipsius, Savile, Pichena, and others, have taken great pains with him in emaculating the Text.
1721–1800. in Bailey: and in mod. Dicts.
2. To efface (a spot). fig.
1649. Ld. Herbert, Autobiog. (1886), 60. By a serious repentance, to expiate and emaculate those faults.
