viciate

English

Verb

viciate (third-person singular simple present viciates, present participle viciating, simple past and past participle viciated)

1. Archaic form of vitiate.

Related terms

• viciation

References

• “viciate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• caitive

Middle English

Alternative forms

• vycyate, vyciate, viciat

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin vitiātus, the past participle of vitiō; equivalent to vice +‎ -at.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /viːsiˈaːt/

Adjective

viciate (Late Middle English, rare)

1. Spoiled, injured, or ruined; made corrupt or base.
2. Lacking purification; unpurified.

Descendants

• English: vitiate

References

• “viciāt(e, ppl.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-03-01.

Spanish

Verb

viciate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of viciar combined with te