ppl. a. [f. the vb.] That has undergone vitiation; corrupted, spoiled, impaired: a. In respect of substance.
1620. Venner, Via Recta, vii. 135. Those [almonds] that … [are] reserued all the yeare, so that they waxe not too dry, or in their colour and substance vitiated [etc.].
1644. Milton, Areop. (Arb.), 43. Wholesome meats to a vitiated stomack differ little or nothing from unwholesome.
1688. Boyle, Vitiated Sight, 271. Some may think that [such] a man has rather an excellent, than a vitiated sight.
1747. trans. Astruc’s Fevers, 285. These cells becoming turgid with this viciated matter, raise the cuticula.
1770. Phil. Trans., LX. 400. It might … seem possible, that blood-letting had only let out the vitiated part.
1813. J. Thomson, Lect. Inflam., 648. When the vesications pass into the state of sloughing, or vitiated ulcers.
1826. S. Cooper, First Lines Surg. (ed. 5), 38. Certain deleterious kinds of food, such as the ergot or vitiated rye.
1867. A. Barry, Sir C. Barry, vi. 166. The smoke and vitiated air of every room in the building.
1892. Photogr. Ann., II. 213. Confinement in the vitiated atmosphere of an ill-ventilated dark room.
b. In some abstract quality or principle.
1660. R. Coke, Power & Subj., 189. No affliction, or the keeping the thing detained, ought to injure the Appellant, or the vitiated Cause ayded by remedy of the Appeal.
1719. De Foe, Crusoe, I. 201. To have no other Guide than that of their own abominable and vitiated Passions.
1740. Cibber, Apol., iv. 68. It is … to the vitiated and low Taste of the Spectator, that the Corruptions of the Stage … have been owing.
1790. Burke, Fr. Rev., 100. It is in us the degenerate choice of a vitiated mind.
1833. I. Taylor, Fanat., i. 1. Vitiated religious sentiments have too much connexion with the principles of our physical constitution to [etc.].
1841. D’Israeli, Amen. Lit. (1867), 97. This vulgar or corrupt Latin … was the vitiated mother of the sister-languages of Europe.
1871. Darwin, Desc. Man, II. xiv. 115. Vitiated instincts may also account for some of the hybrid unions above referred to.
