maculated

maculated

1. simple past and past participle of maculate

maculated (comparative more maculated, superlative most maculated)

1. 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.

• maculated fever