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Webster 1913 Edition
Pollution
Pol-lu′tion
,Noun.
[L.
pollutio
: cf. F. pollution
.] 1.
The act of polluting, or the state of being polluted (in any sense of the verb); defilement; uncleanness; impurity.
2.
(Med.)
The emission of semen, or sperm, at other times than in sexual intercourse.
Dunglison.
Webster 1828 Edition
Pollution
POLLU'TION
,Noun.
1.
The act of polluting.2.
Defilement; uncleanness; impurity; the state of being polluted.3.
In the Jewish economy, legal or ceremonial uncleanness, which disqualified a person for sacred services or for common intercourse with the people, or rendered any thing unfit for sacred use.4.
In medicine, the involuntary emission of semen in sleep.5.
In a religious sense, guilt,the effect of sin; idolatry, &c.