vitiating

• On the whole, one of the most remarkable phenomena in the history of this scattered people, made for ages "a scorn and a hissing" is, that after being subjected to this process, which might have been expected to be in every sense deteriorating and vitiating, they have come out of it (in any estimate which allows for numerical proportion) rivalling the nations of all European countries in healthiness and beauty of physique_, in practical ability, in scientific and artistic aptitude, and in some forms of ethical value. —  Impressions of Theophrastus Such
• It is stated, upon scientific authority, that a jet of common gas, equivalent to twelve sperm candles, consumes 5.45 cubic feet of oxygen per hour, producing 3.21 feet of carbonic acid gas, vitiating, according to Dr. Tidy's "Handbook of Chemistry," 348.25 cubic feet of air. —  Scientific American Supplement, No. 497, July 11, 1885
• Idleness is vitiating: waiting for the death of those we ought to love is vitiating; and these two one-idea'd curs were ready to tear any one to death that should interfere with that miserable inheritance which was their thought by day and their dream by night. —  The Cloister and the Hearth
• Catholic countries, are spent in exercises which exhilarate the spirits without vitiating the heart. —  Letters on Sweden, Norway, and Denmark
• We have a great deal of this; and more or less it is modifying theological systems and vitiating public policy. —  Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays

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