polluere

polluere [CL] 1 to dirty, befoul, stain. Numerianum Augustum interfectorum cruore contaminatum non permisit basilicae sacrarium intrando ~tis [gl.: i. inquinatis] pedibus profanare Aldh. VirgP 33; impudenter confractam [uxorem morientem] et saliva ~tam V. Cuthb. II 8; si ipse permittat ‥ margaritam ‥ excuti de manu sua in caenum ‥ ac postea eam de caeno sumens ~tam et non lotam Anselm (CurD I 19) II 85; contaminare, ~ere, fedare, sordidare Osb. Glouc. Deriv. 156; uti si margaritam candidam, in lutum missam, ~as, statimque eam inde auferas, non idcirco sordibus caret, sed ablutionem requirit Alb. Lond. DG 6. 12. 2 to pollute, defile, to render ceremonially or morally impure, to violate, corrupt; b (p. ppl. as adj.). quod sanguine vel quocunque inmundo ~itur, si nescit qui manducat, nihil est Theod. Pen. I 7. 12; animalia coitu hominum pulluta occiduntur Ib. II 11. 9; aemulus ‥ pollutus peste livoris Aldh. VirgV 1645; se priscis idolatriae sordibus ~endum perdendumque restituet Bede HE III 1 p. 127; violator virginis ‥ vas oblatum Deo ‥ dementi temeritate ~isti Rob. Flamb. Pen. 278; respondit Pilatus “non ego ~tus sum in sanguine ejus” Eul. Hist. I 135.  b qui genitus mundum miseranda labe resolvit / atque crucifixus polluta piacula tersit Aldh. CE 2. 31.