Definition of vitiate

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Vitiate (v. t.) 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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Vitiate :: Vitiate (v. t.) 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..
Poison :: Poison (n.) To taint; to corrupt; to vitiate; as, vice poisons happiness; slander poisoned his mind..
Novitiate :: Novitiate (n.) Hence: Time of probation in a religious house before taking the vows.
Pure :: Pure (superl.) Free from that which harms, vitiates, weakens, or pollutes; genuine; real; perfect; -- applied to things and actions..
Corruptible :: Corruptible (a.) Capable of being corrupted, or morally vitiated; susceptible of depravation..
Cacochymy :: Cacochymy (n.) A vitiated state of the humors, or fluids, of the body, especially of the blood..
Corrupt :: Corrupt (a.) Changed from a state of uprightness, correctness, truth, etc., to a worse state; vitiated; depraved; debased; perverted; as, corrupt language; corrupt judges..
Viciate :: Viciate (v. t.) See Vitiate.
Novitiate :: Novitiate (n.) The state of being a novice; time of initiation or instruction in rudiments.
Tamper :: Tamper (v. i.) To meddle so as to alter, injure, or vitiate a thing..
Probation :: Probation (n.) The novitiate which a person must pass in a convent, to probe his or her virtue and ability to bear the severities of the rule..
Novitiate :: Novitiate (n.) The place where novices live or are trained.
Vitiation :: Vitiation (n.) The act of vitiating, or the state of being vitiated; depravation; corruption; invalidation; as, the vitiation of the blood; the vitiation of a contract..
Spoil :: Spoil (v. t.) To cause to decay and perish; to corrput; to vitiate; to mar.
Pica :: Pica (n.) A vitiated appetite that craves what is unfit for food, as chalk, ashes, coal, etc.; chthonophagia..
Leaven :: Leaven (v. t.) To imbue; to infect; to vitiate.
Corrupt :: Corrupt (v. i.) To become vitiated; to lose putity or goodness.
Vitiate :: Vitiate (v. t.) 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..
Emasculate :: Emasculate (v. t.) To deprive of masculine vigor or spirit; to weaken; to render effeminate; to vitiate by unmanly softness.
Approbation :: Approbation (n.) Probation or novitiate.
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