vitiation
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That is to say, a vitiation of taste, by indulged excesses; the wine and high feasting of their own theatre—which really made them unapt for understanding Shakspeare.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 353, March 1845 by Various
Other disease makes itself known by aches or appearance, but the blood courses on with no sign of vitiation, carrying its poison to every nerve and fibre of the body.
From Treatise on the Diseases of Women by Pinkham, Lydia Estes
You will remember that he ascribes this circumstance to some unknown vice in the ovaries of the queen; but he was far from suspecting that retarded fecundation had been the cause of vitiation.
From New observations on the natural history of bees by Huber, François
In Everope is seen the extremity to which the vitiation here mentioned by the great moralist may sometimes be carried.
From Trevethlan (Vol 3 of 3) A Cornish Story. by Watson, William Davy
Deare madam, heare me: You had a noble husband, while he livd; And I beleive That no perswasion cold have forcd you yeild To vitiation of his honord bed, Not with a prince.
From A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2 by Bullen, A. H. (Arthur Henry)
