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 .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Archaic form of
vitiate .
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Examples
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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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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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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
slumry commented on the word viciate
to vitiate
July 16, 2007
bestiary commented on the word viciate
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