Word Meanings - MACULATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of spotting; a spot; a blemish. Shak.

Related words: (words related to MACULATION)

• SPOTTEDNESS
  State or quality of being spotted.
• BLEMISHLESS
  Without blemish; spotless. A life in all so blemishless. Feltham.
• SPOTTED
  Marked with spots; as, a spotted garment or character. "The spotted panther." Spenser. Spotted fever , a name applied to various eruptive fevers, esp. to typhus fever and cerebro-spinal meningitis. -- Spotted tree , an Australian tree ; -- so
• SPOTTER
  One who spots.
• SPOTTINESS
  The state or quality of being spotty.
• BLEMISHMENT
  The state of being blemished; blemish; disgrace; damage; impairment. For dread of blame and honor's blemishment. Spenser.
• BLEMISH
  injure, soil, F. blêmir to grow pale, fr. OF. bleme, blesme, pale, wan, F. blême, prob. fr. Icel blaman the livid color of a wound, fr. blar blue; akin to E. blue. OF. blemir properly signifies to beat one 1. To mark with deformity; to injure
• SPOTTY
  Full of spots; marked with spots.
• EYESPOTTED; EYE-SPOTTED
  Marked with spots like eyes. Junno's bird, in her eye-spotted train. Spenser.
• UNSPOTTED
  Not spotted; free from spot or stain; especially, free from moral stain; unblemished; immaculate; as, an unspotted reputation. -- Un*spot"ted*ness, n.
• CINQUE-SPOTTED
  Five-spotted. Shak.
• UNBLEMISHED
  Not blemished; pure; spotless; as, an unblemished reputation or life. Addison.