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The act of ravishing; violation; defilement. Bp. Hall.

tagion of enthusiasm. "The contagion of example." Eikon Basilike. When lust . . . Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows clotted by contagion. Milton.

To soil, stain, or corrupt by contact; to tarnish; to sully; to taint; to pollute; to defile. Shall we now Contaminate our figures with base bribes Shak. I would neither have simplicity imposed upon, nor virtue contaminated. Goldsmith.

The act or process of contaminating; pollution; defilement; taint; also, that which contaminates.

To change from good to bad; to vitiate; to deprave; to pervert; to debase; to defile. Evil communications corrupt good manners. 1. Cor. xv. 33.

Having the lower ends of garments defiled by trailing in mire or filth; draggle-tailed.

To march out from a wood, defile, or other confined spot, into open ground; to issue. Battalions debouching on the plain. Prescott.

To make foul; to defile. [Obs.] Wyclif.

le; extremely hateful; very odious; deserving abhorrence; as, detestable vices. Thou hast defiled my sanctuary will all thy detestable things, and with all thine abominations. Ezek. v. 11.

To defile; to disfigure. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

Defiled with dirt; foul; nasty; filthy; not clean or pure; serving to defile; as, dirty hands; dirty water; a dirty white. Spenser.

ent color from the natural or proper one; to stain; to discolor; to sully; to tarnish; to defile; -- used chiefly in poetry. "Distained with dirt and blood." Spenser. [She] hath . . . distained her honorable blood. Spenser. The worthiness of praise distains his worth. Shak.

To cover with grease; to defile; to pollute. [Obs.] In the rank sweat of an enseamed bed. Shak.

on from debt, peril, etc. We had now extricated ourselves from the various labyrinths and defiles. Eustance.

d by, or expressing, exultation; rejoicing triumphantly. Break away, exultant, from every defilement. I. Tay;or.

Foul matter; anything that soils or defiles; dirt; nastiness.

Defiled with filth, whether material or moral; nasty; dirty; polluted; foul; impure; obscene. "In the filthy-mantled pool." Shak. He which is filthy let him be filthy still. Rev. xxii. 11.

To defile; to soil. [Obs.]

injurious, noxious, offensive, or obstructive; filthy; dirty; not clean; polluted; nasty; defiled; as, a foul cloth; foul hands; a foul chimney; foul air; a ship's bottom is foul when overgrown with barnacles; a gun becomes foul from repeated firing; a well is foul with polluted water. My face is foul with weeping. Job…

A defile between mountains.