viciate

English

Verb

viciate (third-person singular simple present viciates, present participle viciating, simple past and past participle viciated)

Archaic form of vitiate.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

caitive

Middle English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin vitiātus, the past participle of vitiō; equivalent to vice +‎ -at.

Alternative forms

vycyate, vyciate, viciat

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /viːsiˈaːt/

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.

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