maculated
English
Verb
maculated
- simple past tense and past participle of maculate
Adjective
maculated (comparative more maculated, superlative most maculated)
- Having spots or blotches.
- Synonym: maculate
- 1891, Ambrose Bierce, “Chickamauga” in Tales of Soldiers and Civilians, San Francisco: E.L.G. Steele, p. 48,
- [The light] fell upon their faces, touching their whiteness with a ruddy tinge, accentuating the stains with which so many of them were freaked and maculated.
- 2002, Michel Faber, The Crimson Petal and the White, Canongate Books (2010), page 731:
- She lifts the pen from the maculated blotter.
Derived terms
- maculated fever