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jure 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…

Not vitiated. Lowell.

One who is going through a novitiate, or period of probation; a novice. Addison.

Not vitiated; pure.

Probation or novitiate. [Obs.] This day my sister should the cloister enter, And there receive her approbation. Shak.

A vitiated state of the humors, or fluids, of the body, especially of the blood. Dunglison.

Having the fluids of the body vitiated, especially the blood. Wiseman.

Changed from a sound to a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound. Who with such corrupt and pestilent bread would feed them. Knolles.

One who corrupts; one who vitiates or taints; as, a corrupter of morals.

Capable of being corrupted, or morally vitiated; susceptible of depravation. They systematically corrupt very corruptible race. Burke. -- Cor*rupt"i*ble*ness, n. -- Cor*rupt"i*bly, adv.

To lead away from purity or excellence; to corrupt in character or principles; to mar; to vitiate; to pollute; to seduce; as, to debauch one's self by intemperance; to debauch a woman; to debauch an army. Learning not debauched by ambition. Burke. A man must have got his conscience thoroughly debauched and hardened bef…

To make bad or worse; to vitiate; to corrupt. Whose pride depraves each other better part. Spenser.

The stae of being depraved or corrupted; a vitiated state of moral character; general badness of character; wickedness of mind or heart; absence of religious feeling and principle. Total depravity. See Original sin, and Calvinism.

To deprive of masculine vigor or spirit; to weaken; to render effeminate; to vitiate by unmanly softness. Luxury had not emasculated their minds. V. Knox.

A vitiated condition of the body, due to long confinement in a hospital, or the morbid condition of the atmosphere of a hospital.

A vitiated or morbid animal fluid, such as often causes an eruption on the skin. "A body full of humors." Sir W. Temple.

body; a state in which the application of ordinary stimuli produces pain or excessive or vitiated action.

To imbue; to infect; to vitiate. With these and the like deceivable doctrines, he leavens also his prayer. Milton.

Defective flow or vitiated condition of the milk.

The state of being a novice; novitiate.