I.to pollute, defile (poet. and in post-Aug. prose).
I. In gen.: “totamque incestat funere classem,” Verg. A. 6, 150: “aras,” Stat. S. 5, 5, 4: “diem (Furiae),” id. Th. 11, 120; Claud. Cons. Mall. Theod. 267.—
II. In partic., to dishonor, defile with lust: “puellam,” Plaut. Poen. 5, 2, 136: “filiam,” Tac. A. 6, 19: “se,” Suet. Tib. 43: “thalamos novercae,” Verg. A. 10, 389.