ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ED1.] Defiled, sullied, or infected by contact.

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1606.  Shaks., Tr. & Cr., IV. i. 71. Her contaminated carrion weight.

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1805.  Foster, Ess., I. vii. 107. The course of a contaminated life.

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a. 1853.  Robertson, Serm., Ser. III. i. (1872), 3. No chemical science can separate that virus from the contaminated blood.

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