pollution

POLLU'TION, noun [Latin 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, etc