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Pollock


POL'LOCK

POLLU'TE, verb transitive [Latin 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. Numbers 18:1. Exodus 20:1. 2 Kings 23:1. 2 Chronicles 36:1.

2. To taint with guilt.

Ye pollute yourselves with all your idols. Ezekiel 20:1.

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

My sabbaths they greatly polluted. Ezekiel 20:1.

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, adjective Polluted; defiled.