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The act of polluting, or the state of being polluted (in any sense of the verb); defilement; uncleanness; impurity.

lly vile; an object or state that excites disgust and hatred; a hateful or shameful vice; pollution. Antony, most large in his abominations. Shak.

To render clean; to free from fith, pollution, infection, guilt, etc.; to clean. If we walk in the light . . . the blood of Jesus Christ his son cleanseth us from all sin. 1 John i. 7. Can'st thou not minister to a mind diseased, And with some sweet oblivious antidote Cleanse the suffed bosom of that perilous stuff Whi…

This act of defiling; defilement; pollution. Bp. Hall.

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

The act of making foul; pollution. [Obs.]

The act of defiling, or state of being defiled, whether physically or morally; pollution; foulness; dirtiness; uncleanness. Defilements of the flesh. Hopkins. The chaste can not rake into such filth without danger of defilement. Addison.

rose and did on him a fair Blue woolen tunic. W. Morris (Jason). Though the former legal pollution be now done off, yet there is a spiritual contagion in idolatry as much to be shunned. Milton. It ["Pilgrim's Progress"] has been done into verse: it has been done into modern English. Macaulay.

Anything that sullies or defiles the moral character; corruption; pollution. To purify the soul from the dross and filth of sensual delights. Tillotson. Filth disease (Med.), a disease supposed to be due to pollution of the soil or water.

That which is filthy, or makes filthy; foulness; nastiness; corruption; pollution; impurity. Carry forth the filthiness out of the holy place. 2 Chron. xxix. 5.

A defiling; pollution; stain. [Obs.] Bacon.

d to render the place unclean, and any spilling of blood in the presence of the idol is a pollution.

Onanism; self-pollution.

Self-pollution; masturbation.

Requiring expiation; criminal; atrociously bad. "Piacular pollution." De Quincey.

Adapted or tending to pollute; causing defilement or pollution. -- Pol*lut"ing*ly, adv.

The act or operation of cleansing ceremonially, by removing any pollution or defilement. When the days of her purification according to the law of Moses were accomplished. Luke ii. 22.

To make free from sin; to cleanse from moral corruption and pollution; to purify. Sanctify them through thy truth. John xvii. 17.

Masturbation; onanism; self-pollution.

Stain; pollution. Shak. Then fearing rust or soilure, fashioned for it A case of silk. Tennyson.