POLLU'TION, n. L. pollutio.
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.
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