polluted, ppl. a.
(pəˈl(j)uːtɪd)
[f. prec. + -ed1.]
a. Defiled, rendered impure or unclean.
| c 1400 Apol. Loll. 53 Wen þe body and blod of Crist is tretid wiþ foul hands, and polutid conciens. 1535 Coverdale Jer. xxiii. 11 The prophetes and the prestes them selues are poluted Ypocrytes. 1667 Milton P.L. xii. 110 Resolving from thenceforth To leave them to thir own polluted wayes. 1777 Logan in Scott. Paraphr. viii. iii, Can troubled and polluted springs a hallow'd stream afford? 1888 M. E. Braddon Fatal Three i. v, She has been using that polluted water for the last three weeks—and poisoning a whole village. |
b. slang (orig. U.S.). Intoxicated, drunk; under the influence of drugs, ‘high’.
| 1912 Dialect Notes III. 585 Polluted,..very drunk. The same as pickled and plastered. 1914 ‘High Jinks, Jr.’ Choice Slang 16 Polluted, intoxicated, drunk, ‘pifflicated’, ‘soused’. 1927 New Republic 9 Mar. 71/2 The following is a partial list of words denoting drunkenness now in common use in the United States..polluted. 1938 Amer. Speech XIII. 185/2 High..usually infers that the addict is noticeably under the influence of drugs... The same is true of the following equivalents:..lit, polluted, shot up. 1974 Wodehouse Aunts aren't Gentlemen iii. 20, I was helping a pal to celebrate the happy conclusion of love's young dream, and it may be that I became a mite polluted. |
Hence poˈllutedly adv., in a polluted condition, with pollution; poˈllutedness, polluted state.
| 1617 Hieron Wks. II. 344 There is naturally a kinde of pollutednesse in the lips of man, whereof Isaiah complayned. 1635 Heywood Hierarch. i. 28 Pollutedly into the world I came; Sad and perplext I liv'd. |