maculation
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Pronunciation
[edit]- enPR: /măk′yə-lā′shən/
Noun
[edit]maculation (plural maculations)
- (obsolete) The act of spotting; a spot; a blemish.
- c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iv]:
- I speak not ‘be thou true,’ as fearing thee,
For I will throw my glove to Death himself,
That there’s no maculation in thy heart:
- 1891, Ambrose Bierce, “A Holy Terror” in Tales of Soldiers and Civilians, San Francisco: E. L. G. Steele, p. 218,[1]
- He could make out a mottled pattern on the hollow cheeks—the maculations of decay.
- (zoology, botany, chiefly uncountable) A pattern of spots.
- 1990, Mason E. Hale, A Synopsis of the Lichen Genus Xanthoparmelia (Vainio) Hale (Ascomycotina, Parmeliaceae), Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, p. 195,[3]
- [This lichen] species […] is recognized by […] more or less distinct maculation on the upper surface, and pale brown lower surface.