I.to defile all over, to pollute wholly, to contaminate.
II. Trop. *
A. Of infectious disease, to infect, taint: “totam progeniem,” Col. 7, 5, 6.—More freq.,
B. Of vices: matres coinquinari regias, Att. ap. Cic. N. D. 3, 27, 68: “se crimine stupri,” Val. Max. 6, 1, 6: “se maximo scelere,” id. 9, 7: “cor vitiis,” Prud. Cath. 6, 53: “famam alicujus,” Arn. 4, 151.— Hence, cŏinquĭnātus , a, um, P. a., polluted, contaminated: “quid esse his potest coinquinatius?” Arn. 7, p. 222.