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.
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