vitiatedadj.

1620 T. Venner 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.].

1644 J. Milton Areopagitica 11 Wholesome meats to a vitiated stomack differ little or nothing from unwholesome.

1688 R. Boyle Vitiated Sight in Disquis. Final Causes Nat. Things 271 Some may think that [such] a man has rather an excellent, than a vitiated sight.

1747 tr. J. Astruc Academical Lect. Fevers 285 These cells becoming turgid with this viciated matter, raise the cuticula.

1771 Philos. Trans. 1770 (Royal Soc.) 60 400 It might..seem possible, that blood-letting had only let out the vitiated part.

1813 J. Thomson Lect. Inflammation 648 When the vesications pass into the state of sloughing, or vitiated ulcers.

1826 S. Cooper First Lines Pract. Surg. (ed. 5) i. v. 38 Certain deleterious kinds of food, such as the ergot or vitiated rye.

1867 A. Barry Life & Wks. Sir C. Barry vi. 166 The smoke and vitiated air of every room in the building.

1892 Photogr. Ann. II. 213 Confinement in the vitiated atmosphere of an ill-ventilated dark room.

1660 R. Coke Elements Power & Subjection 189 in Justice Vindicated No affliction, or the keeping the thing detained, ought to injure the Appellant, or the vitiated Cause ayded by remedy of the Appeal.

1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 201 To have no other Guide than that of their own abominable and vitiated Passions.

1740 C. Cibber Apol. Life C. Cibber iv. 68 It is..to the vitiated and low Taste of the Spectator, that the Corruptions of the Stage..have been owing.

1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 100 It is in us the degenerate choice of a vitiated mind. View more context for this quotation

1833 I. Taylor Fanaticism i. 1 Vitiated religious sentiments have too much connexion with the principles of our physical constitution to [etc.].

1841 I. D'Israeli Amenities Lit. I. 154 This vulgar or corrupt Latin..was the vitiated mother of the sister-languages of Europe.

1871 C. Darwin Descent of Man II. xiv. 115 Vitiated instincts may also account for some of the hybrid unions above referred to.