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vitiating |
1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Vitiate \Vi"ti*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Vitiated}; p. pr & vb n. {Vitiating}.] [L. vitiatus p. p. vitiare to vitiate, fr vitium a fault, vice. See {Vice} a fault.] [Written also {viciate}.] 1. To make vicious, faulty, or imperfect; to render defective; to injure the substance or qualities of to impair; to contaminate; to spoil; as exaggeration vitiates a style of writing; sewer gas vitiates the air. A will vitiated and growth out of love with the truth disposes the understanding to error and delusion. --South. Without care it may be used to vitiate our minds. --Burke. This undistinguishing complaisance will vitiate the taste of readers. --Garth. 2. To cause to fail of effect, either wholly or in part to make void; to destroy, as the validity or binding force of an instrument or transaction; to annul; as any undue influence exerted on a jury vitiates their verdict; fraud vitiates a contract.
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