viciate
English
Verb
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “viciate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Anagrams
Middle English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin vitiātus, the past participle of vitiō; equivalent to vice + -at.
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Adjective
viciate (Late Middle English, rare)
- Spoiled, injured, or ruined; made corrupt or base.
- Lacking purification; unpurified.
Descendants
- English: vitiate
References
- “viciāt(e (ppl.)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-03-01.