Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • An obsolete spelling of vitiate.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb rare See vitiate.

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  • verb Archaic form of vitiate.

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Examples

  • The Constitution, he explained, had to be adopted “in toto, and for ever,” as it had been by the other states, and “any condition whatsoever must viciate the ratification.”

    Ratification Pauline Maier 2010

  • The Constitution, he explained, had to be adopted “in toto, and for ever,” as it had been by the other states, and “any condition whatsoever must viciate the ratification.”

    Ratification Pauline Maier 2010

  • The Constitution, he explained, had to be adopted “in toto, and for ever,” as it had been by the other states, and “any condition whatsoever must viciate the ratification.”

    Ratification Pauline Maier 2010

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  • to vitiate

    July 16, 2007

  • from webster's: "this verb is usually written vitiate; but as vice, from L. vitius, is established, it would be well to write the verb viciate, as we write appreciate and depreciate, from L. pretium."

    July 26, 2008