conspurcate

English

Etymology

From Latin conspurcatus, past participle of conspurcare.

Verb

conspurcate (third-person singular simple present conspurcates, present participle conspurcating, simple past and past participle conspurcated)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To pollute; to defile.
   • 1617, Francis White, The Orthodox Faith and Way to the Church […] :

     […] conspurcate and vilifie their glorious naine

   • c. 1600, quoted by Katherine Rundell, Super-Infinite […] :

     somebody most beastly did conspurcate and shit upon his gown from the galleries above

Related terms

• conspurcation

References

• “conspurcate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Latin

Participle

cōnspurcāte

1. vocative masculine singular of cōnspurcātus