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