POLLUTION, in general, signifies defilement, or the rendering a person or place unclean or unholy.
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Pollution For the Jewish pollutions, see the article IMPIETY.
Polyandria. The Romanists hold a church to be polluted by the effusion of blood or of seed therein; and requires its being consecrated anew. And the Indians are so superstitious on this head, that they break all the vessels which those of another religion have drank out of, or even only touched; and drain all the water out of a pond in which a stranger has bathed.