M`AR, L. marceo.
1. To injure by cutting off a part, or by wounding and making defective as, to mar a tree by incision.
I pray you, mar no more trees by writing songs in their barks.
Neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard. Leviticus 19
2. To injure to hurt to impair the strength or purity of.
When brewers mar their malt with water.
3. To injure to diminish to interrupt.
But mirth is marred, and the good cheer is lost.
4. To injure to deform to disfigure.
Ire, envy and despair
Marr'd all his borrow'd visage.
His visage was so marred more than any man. Isaiah 52
Moral evil alone mars the intellectual works of God.
This word is not obsolete in America.