vitiate

• Does that false name vitiate the marriage By no means,' replied the bishop, promptly. —  The Bishop's Secret
• But though there is an inaccuracy in saying that the freezing of water is due to the loss of its heat, no practical error arises from it; nor will a parallel laxity of expression vitiate our statements respecting the multiplication of effects. —  Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library
• The correction is indeed, so obvious that we may well wonder that it had escaped his predecessors; but we must wonder ten times more that one of his successors, in a blind reverence for the old copy, should re-vitiate the text, and defend a corruption which outrages language, taste, and common sense Although at an earlier period of life I too adopted Theobald's supposed emendation, it never satisfied me. —  Notes and Queries, Number 47, September 21, 1850
• "I have furthermore kept him segregated from all that could in any way vitiate or vulgarise; he has had the ablest tutors and been my constant companion, and to-day--I am told--all this is but his misfortune. —  Peregrine's Progress
• Such cases do not vitiate, they confirm, the principle--that a nation which has just gained variability without losing legality has a singular likelihood to be a prevalent nation No nation admits of an abstract definition; all nations are beings of many qualities and many sides; no historical event exactly illustrates any one principle; every cause is intertwined and surrounded with a hundred others. —  Physics and Politics, or, Thoughts on the application of the principles of "natural selection" and "inheritance" to political society

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