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r 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.

Not contaminated; pure. Moore. -- In`con*tam"i*nate*ness, n.

Odoriferous or contaminated air.

To corrupt; to defile; to contaminate. [Obs.] Blount.

Capable of being contaminated.

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

Tending or liable to contaminate.

Contaminated with illegality. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A bacterial disease of silkworms, supposed to be due to eating contaminated mulberry leaves.

eposit eggs upon, as a flesh fly does on meat; to cause to be maggoty; hence, to taint or contaminate, as if with flyblows. Bp. Srillingfleet.

Tainted or contaminated with flyblows; damaged; foul. Wherever flyblown reputations were assembled. Thackeray.

mmunicate to or affect with, as qualities or emotions, esp. bad qualities; to corrupt; to contaminate; to taint by the communication of anything noxious or pernicious. Cowper. Infected Ston's daughters with like heat. Milton.

Corrupting, or tending to corrupt or contaminate; vitiating; demoralizing. It [the court] is necessary for the polishing of manners . . . but it is infectious even to the best morals to live always in it. Dryden.

To defile; to pollute; to contaminate; to befoul. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Uncontaminated. [Obs.] Wood.

The state of being unused or uncontaminated; freshness; purity. [Obs.] The maidenhead of their credit. Sir H. Wotton.

Newness; freshness; uncontaminated state. The maidenhood Of thy fight. Shak.

To deprive of purity by mixture; to contaminate. A mingled, imperfect virtue. Rogers.

To soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace. Cudworth.

To soil in any way; to contaminate; to pollute; to stain morally; as, to be smeared with infamy. Shak.