maculation

maculation
/mak'yeuh lay"sheuhn/, n.
1. the act of spotting.
2. a spotted condition.
3. a marking of spots, as on an animal.
4. a disfiguring spot or stain.
[1425-75 for earlier sense "sexual defilement"; late ME < L maculation- (s. of maculatio). See MACULATE, -ION]

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