Now rare. Also 5–6 viciat(e, 6 vicyate, vycyat(e. [ad. L. vitiāt-us (med.L. also viciāt-us), pa. pple. of vitiāre: see next.]
1. Vitiated, depraved, infected, spoiled: a. In predicative use.
1432–50. trans. Higden (Rolls), IV. 427. Peple viciate and pollute, to whom hit was not lawefulle to offre. Ibid., V. 213. A man viciate of body scholde not receyve ordres.
1539. Elyot, Cast. Helthe, I. (1541), 1 b. Fyre … is the clarifyer of other elementes if they be vicyate or out of theyr naturall temperaunce.
1545. Raynald, Byrth Mankynde, 79. Yf the matrice be perysshed or otherwyse viciate.
1737. Bracken, Farriery Impr. (1756), I. 14. The Blood is … vitiate or corrupt.
b. Const. by or with.
c. 1450. trans. De Imitatione, III. lx. 140. Nature sliden & viciat by þe first man Adam boruȝ synne.
1460. Capgrave, Chron., Ded. 1. For the elde bokes … thouȝ thei were mad ful treuly, ȝet be thei viciat be the writeres.
1533. More, 2nd Pt. Confut. Tindale, II. Wks. 636/2. The scripture adulterate and viciate with false gloses & wronge exposicions.
1572. Bossewell, Armorie, III. 7. Neyther with the sonne beame is viciate the sterre, Nor yet by the bearing of a sonne, the mother.
c. Used attributively.
1551. Robinson, trans. More’s Utopia, II. (1895), 202. In their viciate and corrupt taste.
1665. G. Harvey, Advice agst. Plague, 15. Add thereunto the vitiate disposition of the air.
1913. A. Noyes, Tales of Mermaid Tavern, Raleigh.
| He never stooped, | |
| Never once pandered to that vitiate hour. |
† 2. Sc. Law. Rendered null or void; interfered or tampered with. Obs.
1586. in Dunfermline Regr. (Bann. Cl.), 449. Ye auld assumptioun of ye said thrid is vitiat be ye said commendatouris proper deidis.
1593. Sc. Acts Parlt., Jas. VI. (1816), IV. 25/2. As ony pairt of the rent of dumfermling now viciat salbe recoverit.
1678. Sir G. Mackenzie, Crim. Laws Scot., I. xxvii. § 2 (1699), 135. It is said to be suspect, if … it appear vitiat by ocular inspection.
