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Viciate
(gcide) | Viciate \Vi"ci*ate\, v. t.
See Vitiate. [R.]
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viciate
(gcide) | Vitiate \Vi"ti*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Vitiated; p. pr. &
vb. n. Vitiating.] [L. vitiatus, p. p. vitiare to vitiate,
fr. vitium a fault, vice. See Vice a fault.] [Written also
viciate.]
1. To make vicious, faulty, or imperfect; to render
defective; to injure the substance or qualities of; to
impair; to contaminate; to spoil; as, exaggeration
vitiates a style of writing; sewer gas vitiates the air.
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A will vitiated and growth out of love with the
truth disposes the understanding to error and
delusion. --South.
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Without care it may be used to vitiate our minds.
--Burke.
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This undistinguishing complaisance will vitiate the
taste of readers. --Garth.
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2. To cause to fail of effect, either wholly or in part; to
make void; to destroy, as the validity or binding force of
an instrument or transaction; to annul; as, any undue
influence exerted on a jury vitiates their verdict; fraud
vitiates a contract.
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noviciate
(encz) | noviciate, n: |
Conviciate
(gcide) | Conviciate \Con*vi"ci*ate\, v. i. [L. conviciatus, p. p. of
conviciari to revile, fr. convicium loud reproach.]
To utter reproaches; to raise a clamor; to rail. [Obs.]
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To conviciate instead of accusing. --Laud.
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Viciate
(gcide) | Viciate \Vi"ci*ate\, v. t.
See Vitiate. [R.]
[1913 Webster]Vitiate \Vi"ti*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Vitiated; p. pr. &
vb. n. Vitiating.] [L. vitiatus, p. p. vitiare to vitiate,
fr. vitium a fault, vice. See Vice a fault.] [Written also
viciate.]
1. To make vicious, faulty, or imperfect; to render
defective; to injure the substance or qualities of; to
impair; to contaminate; to spoil; as, exaggeration
vitiates a style of writing; sewer gas vitiates the air.
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A will vitiated and growth out of love with the
truth disposes the understanding to error and
delusion. --South.
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Without care it may be used to vitiate our minds.
--Burke.
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This undistinguishing complaisance will vitiate the
taste of readers. --Garth.
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2. To cause to fail of effect, either wholly or in part; to
make void; to destroy, as the validity or binding force of
an instrument or transaction; to annul; as, any undue
influence exerted on a jury vitiates their verdict; fraud
vitiates a contract.
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noviciate
(wn) | noviciate
n 1: the period during which you are a novice (especially in a
religious order) [syn: novitiate, noviciate] |
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