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vitiated, ppl. a.|ˈvɪʃɪeɪtɪd|
[f. the vb.]
That has undergone vitiation; corrupted, spoiled, impaired: a. In respect of substance.
1620Venner Via Recta vii. 135 Those [almonds] that..[are] reserued all the yeare, so that they waxe not too dry, or in their colour and substance vitiated [etc.]. 1644Milton Areop. (Arb.) 43 Wholesome meats to a vitiated stomack differ little or nothing from unwholesome. 1688Boyle Vitiated Sight 271 Some may think that [such] a man has rather an excellent, than a vitiated sight. 1747tr. Astruc's Fevers 285 These cells becoming turgid with this viciated matter, raise the cuticula. 1770Phil. Trans. LX. 400 It might..seem possible, that blood-letting had only let out the vitiated part. 1813J. Thomson Lect. Inflam. 648 When the vesications pass into the state of sloughing, or vitiated ulcers. 1826S. Cooper First Lines Surg. (ed. 5) 38 Certain deleterious kinds of food, such as the ergot or vitiated rye. 1867A. Barry Sir C. Barry vi. 166 The smoke and vitiated air of every room in the building. 1892Photogr. Ann. II. 213 Confinement in the vitiated atmosphere of an ill-ventilated dark room.
b. In some abstract quality or principle.
1660R. Coke Power & Subj. 189 No affliction, or the keeping the thing detained, ought to injure the Appellant, or the vitiated Cause ayded by remedy of the Appeal. 1719De Foe Crusoe i. 201 To have no other Guide than that of their own abominable and vitiated Passions. 1740Cibber Apol. iv. 68 It is..to the vitiated and low Taste of the Spectator, that the Corruptions of the Stage..have been owing. 1790Burke Fr. Rev. 100 It is in us the degenerate choice of a vitiated mind. 1833I. Taylor Fanat. i. 1 Vitiated religious sentiments have too much connexion with the principles of our physical constitution to [etc.]. 1841D'Israeli Amen. Lit. (1867) 97 This vulgar or corrupt Latin..was the vitiated mother of the sister-languages of Europe. 1871Darwin Desc. Man II. xiv. 115 Vitiated instincts may also account for some of the hybrid unions above referred to. |