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vitiate
English
Alternative forms
- viciate
Etymology
From viti?tus, the perfect passive participle of Latin viti? (“damage, spoil”), from vitium (“vice”).
Pronunciation
- (UK, General American) IPA(key): /?v??.i.e?t/
- (US)
Verb
vitiate (third-person singular simple present vitiates, present participle vitiating, simple past and past participle vitiated)
- (transitive) to spoil, make faulty; to reduce the value, quality, or effectiveness of something
- 1838, Ralph Waldo Emerson, "An Address delivered before the Senior Class in Divinity College, Cambridge, Sunday evening, 15 July, 1838":
- The least admixture of a lie, -- for example, the taint of vanity, the least attempt to make a good impression, a favorable appearance, -- will instantly vitiate the effect.
- 2007, David Roodman, "A Short Note on the Theme of Too Many Instruments", Center for Global Development Working Paper 125 (August 2007), p. 9
- Unfortunately, as Anderson and Sørenson (1996) and Bowsher (2002) document, instrument proliferation can vitiate the test.
- 1838, Ralph Waldo Emerson, "An Address delivered before the Senior Class in Divinity College, Cambridge, Sunday evening, 15 July, 1838":
- (transitive) to debase or morally corrupt
- (transitive, archaic) to violate, to rape
- (transitive) to make something ineffective, to invalidate
Related terms
- See vice
Translations
References
Further reading
- vitiate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- vitiate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- vitiate at OneLook Dictionary Search
Latin
Verb
viti?te
- second-person plural present active imperative of viti?
vitiate From the web:
- what vitiates a contract
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- vitiate meaning
vice
English
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /va?s/
- Rhymes: -a?s
- Homophone: vise
Etymology 1
From Middle English vice, from Old French vice, from Latin vitium (“fault or blemish”). Displaced native Old English unþ?aw.
Noun
vice (plural vices)
- A bad habit.
- (law) Any of various crimes related (depending on jurisdiction) to weapons, prostitution, pornography, gambling, alcohol, tobacco, or drugs.
- A defect in the temper or behaviour of a horse, such as to make the animal dangerous, to injure its health, or to diminish its usefulness.
- 1839, From the case of Scholefield v. Robb Gilligan, Brenda (2002) Practical Horse Law?[1], ?ISBN: “So a horse with say, navicular disease, making him suitable only for light hacking, would probably be unsound, whereas rearing would be a vice, being a "defect in the temper... making it dangerous". A vice can however render a horse unsound - possibly a crib biter will damage its wind.”
Antonyms
- (bad habit): virtue
Derived terms
- by vice of
- inherent vice
- vice squad
Related terms
Translations
See also
- habit
Etymology 2
See vise.
Noun
vice (plural vices)
- Alternative spelling of vise (“mechanical screw apparatus used for clamping”)
- A tool for drawing lead into cames, or flat grooved rods, for casements.
- (architecture) A winding or spiral staircase.
- (obsolete) A grip or grasp.
Translations
Verb
vice (third-person singular simple present vices, present participle vicing, simple past and past participle viced)
- Alternative spelling of vise (“to hold or squeeze with a vice”)
Etymology 3
From Latin vice (“in place of”), ablative form of vicis. Compare French fois (“time”) and Spanish vez (“time, turn”).
Adjective
vice (not comparable)
- in place of; subordinate to; designating a person below another in rank
Derived terms
Preposition
vice
- (dated) instead of, in place of, versus (sense 2)
Usage notes
- While rare in modern standard English, this usage still appears among members of the United States military.
- Statements such as "vice Jones, who had resigned" may be abbreviated "vice Jones, resigned"
Noun
vice (plural vices)
- One who acts in place of a superior.
- c. 1850s-1870s, Edward Minister and Son, The Gazette of Fashion and Cutting-Room Companion
- The health of the Vice was proposed in appropriate language; in replying, Mr. Marriott thanked the company […]
- c. 1850s-1870s, Edward Minister and Son, The Gazette of Fashion and Cutting-Room Companion
Further reading
- vice on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- ICEV, cive
Esperanto
Adverb
vice
- in rows
Related terms
- vico
French
Etymology
From Middle French vice, from Old French vice, borrowed from Latin vitium.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /vis/
- Homophones: vis, visse, vissent, visses
- Rhymes: -is
Noun
vice m (plural vices)
- vice (clarification of this definition is needed)
Derived terms
See also
- défaut
- péché
Further reading
- “vice” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Ido
Etymology
Borrowed from English vice-, French vice-, German vize-, Italian vice-, Russian ?????- (více-), Spanish vice-.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?vi.t?se/
Preposition
vice
- instead, instead of
Derived terms
References
- Progreso III (in Ido), 1910–1911, page 102
- Progreso IV (in Ido), 1911–1912, pages 211, 408, 409
- Progreso V (in Ido), 1912–1913, page 723
- Progreso VII (in Ido), 1914, page 130
Italian
Etymology
From Latin vicem.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?vi.t??e/
- Rhymes: -it?e
Noun
vice m or f (invariable)
- deputy, substitute, vice
Related terms
- vicepresidente
- vice-
Anagrams
- veci
Latin
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?u?i.ke/, [?u??k?]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?vi.t??e/, [?vi?t???]
Noun
vice
- ablative singular of vicis
Preposition
vice
- in place of, subordinate to
Derived terms
- vice vers?
Descendants
- English: vice-
- French: vice
- Ido: vice
- Italian: vice
- Piedmontese: vice
- Swedish: vice
Etymology 2
Noun
v?ce
- vocative singular of v?cus
References
- vice in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- vice in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- vice in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
Middle English
Alternative forms
- vyce, vyse, vijs, wise, vise, wyce, vyhs
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French vice, visse, from Latin vitium.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?vi?s(?)/
Noun
vice (plural vices)
- A fault or imperfection; a negative quality or attribute of something:
- A bad habit or tendency that one has; a negative human behaviour.
- A mistake; a fault due to deficience in knowledge or reasoning.
- (rare) An imperfection or blemish in one's visage or look.
- Vice, iniquity, sinful behaviour; absence of virtue or morality:
- A vice; a general tendency or action that is morally bad.
- A specific example of immoral or sinful behaviour.
- A sickness, disease or malady; a deleterious process effecting something.
Related terms
- viciate
- vicious
- viciously
- viciousnesse
Descendants
- English: vice
- Scots: vice
References
- “v?ce, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-03-01.
Middle French
Etymology
From Old French vice, borrowed from Latin vitium.
Noun
vice m (plural vices)
- vice (bad habit)
Descendants
- French: vice
Portuguese
Noun
vice m, f (plural vices)
- used as an abbreviation of any word containing the prefix vice-
Slovene
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ì?t?s?/, /?í?t?s?/
Noun
v?ce f pl
- purgatory
Inflection
Spanish
Noun
vice m or f (plural vice)
- vice (second in command)
Swedish
Pronunciation
Adjective
vice (not comparable)
- vice, second in rank, deputy, stand-in, acting
Related terms
- vicedirektör
- vicekonung
- vicepresident
- vicevärd
- vice versa
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