▪ I. † conspurcate, a. Obs.
[ad. L. conspurcāt-us pa. pple.: see next.]
Defiled, polluted.
| 1563–87 Foxe A. & M. (1596) 1483/2, I am so sinfull and so conspurcate with many grieuous sinnes. 1619 W. Sclater Expos. 1 Thess. (1630) 313 Neuer saw the Sunne a people more conspurcate with lust. |
▪ II. † conspurcate, v. Obs.
[f. L. conspurcāt-, ppl. stem of conspurcāre to defile, pollute, f. con- + spurcāre to befoul, f. spurcus unclean, dirty, foul.]
trans. To defile, befoul, pollute. (lit. and fig.)
| 1600 Abp. Abbot Exp. Jonah 340 When the Schoolmen had conspurcated and abused true Divinity with their filthiness. 1657 Tomlinson Renou's Disp. 610 Its materials..should be securely reposed, that Flyes may not conspurcate them. 1669 Gale Crt. Gentiles i. iii. v. 64 A certain vestigium..albeit greatly conspurcated or obliterated. |