Definition of "deturpate" in English

verb

1. (obsolete, transitive, usually religious) To defile; to disfigure.

   • 1664-1667, Jeremy Taylor, Dissuasive from Popery Such as that which is to be seen in Burchards, and such which are too largely described in Sanchez; which thing does not only deturpate all honest and modest conversation, but it teaches men to understand more sins then ever they knew of.