Word Meanings - INVITIATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Not vitiated. Lowell.

Related words: (words related to INVITIATE)

• VITIATE
  1. 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. A will vitiated and growth out
• VITIATION
  The act of vitiating, or the state of being vitiated; depravation; corruption; invalidation; as, the vitiation of the blood; the vitiation of a contract. The vitiation that breeds evil acts. G. Eliot.
• UNVITIATED
  Not vitiated; pure.
• INVITIATE
  Not vitiated. Lowell.
• NOVITIATE
  1. The state of being a novice; time of initiation or instruction in rudiments. 2. Hence: Time of probation in a religious house before taking the vows. 3. One who is going through a novitiate, or period of probation; a novice. Addison. 4. The