KJV Dictionary Definition: pollute

pollute

POLLU'TE, v.t. L. polluo; polluceo and possideo.

1. To defile; to make foul or unclean; in a general sense. But appropriately, among the Jews, to make unclean or impure, in a legal or ceremonial sense, so as to disqualify a person for sacred services, or to render things unfit for sacred uses. Num.18. Ex.20. 2 Kings 23. 2 Chron.36.

2. To taint with guilt.

Ye pollute yourselves with all your idols. Ezek.20.

3. To profane; to use for carnal or idolatrous purposes.

My sabbaths they greatly polluted. Ezek.20.

4. To corrupt or impair by mixture of ill, moral or physical.

Envy you my praise, and would destroy

With grief my pleasures, and pollute my joy?

5. To violate by illegal sexual commerce.

POLLU'TE, a. Polluted; defiled.

polluted

POLLU'TED, pp. Defiled; rendered unclean; tainted with guilt; impaired; profaned.

polluter

POLLU'TER, n. A defiler; one that pollutes or profanes.

polluting

POLLU'TING, ppr. Defiling; rendering unclean; corrupting; profaning.

pollution

POLLU'TION, n. L. pollutio.

1. The act of polluting.

2. Defilement; uncleanness; impurity; the state of being polluted.

3. In the Jewish economy, legal or ceremonial uncleanness, which disqualified a person for sacred services or for common intercourse with the people, or rendered any thing unfit for sacred use.

4. In medicine, the involuntary emission of semen in sleep.

5. In a religious sense, guilt,the effect of sin; idolatry, &c.

Definitions from Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language, 1828.
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