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Vice
VICE, n. [L. vitium.]
1. Properly, a spot or defect; a fault; a blemish; as the vices of a political constitution.
2. In ethics, any voluntary action or course of conduct which deviates from the rules of moral rectitude, or from the plain rules of propriety; any moral unfitness of conduct, either from defect of duty, or from the transgression of known principles of rectitude. Vice differs from crime, in being less enormous. We never call murder or robbery a vice; but every act of intemperance, all falsehood, duplicity, deception, lewdness and the like, is a vice. The excessive indulgence of passions and appetites which in themselves are innocent, is a vice. The smoking of tobacco and the taking of snuff, may in certain cases be innocent and even useful, but these practices may be carried to such an excess as to become vices. This word is also used to denote a habit of transgressing; as a life of vice. Vice is rarely a solitary invader; it usually brings with it a frightful train of followers.
3. Depravity or corruption of manners; as an age of vice.
When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway.
The post of honor is a private station.
4. A fault or bad trick in a horse.
5. The fool or punchinello of old shows.
His face made of brass, like a vice in a game.
6. An iron press. [This should be written vise.]
7. A gripe or grasp. [Not in use.]
VICE, v.t. To draw by a kind of violence. [Not in use. See Vise.]
VICE, L. vice, in the turn or place, is used in composition to denote one qui vicem gerit, who acts in the place of another, or is second in authority.
vice appears in definitions for these words:
Abandoned Adhesion Administer Admiral Aim Amendment Antiscians Antithesis Aptitude Atonement Attendant Aulic Auricle Bane Bashaw Beget Betake Blacken Blush Bode Bolt Brand Caliber Censor Come Comedy Complain Condition Confederacy Confident Conjunction Connivance Connive Consequent Constable Contagion Contemptible Contrariety Counsel Cross-examine Customary Daub Debasing Debt Default Deform Degrade Degree Deism Demerit Deputy Detraction Devious Difficult Dignity Discern Discernment Discountenance Disease Disgrace Dishonorable Dissimulation Dissipated Dissipation Dissolute Dissuasive Distinguish Down Draw Duteous Empirical Emulate Enervate Equality Eradicate Even-tide Exaggerate Exemplary Exertion Expensive Exterminate Extermination Extreme Failing Fascinate Faultless Fellow-rake First-fruit Flaccidness Flagellant Flagitious Flatter Flood Fondness For Fortitude Frontless Frown Genuine Gerent Give Glue Go Greatness Grieve Grog Gross Grossness Grow Growth Guard Habituate Hardened Hatred Idleness Ignominy Impious Impoverish Incompatible Increase Indiscretion Individual Inductive Indulge Infamous Infamousness Infatuation Infectious Injure Injury Inseparable Inveigh Inversion Irreclaimable Irrecoverably Irregularity Irritability Jade Keep Lash Lavish Lead Lesson Level Low Maintain Meet Ministerial Misery Moral Moralist Morals Natural Nickname Notorious Noxious Nurse Odious Old Once Ordination Overbalance Owing Palliate Palliation Panderism Parent Pashaw Pernicious Post Practice Prefectship Preferable Present Preserve President Prevailing Prevalence Price Procede Produce Profligacy Profligate Promote Provoke Pure Quality Rake Rampancy Rampant Ranging Reason Reflect Reform Reformation Regel Regnant Reigning Relapse Relapser Relapsing Repent Reptile Reputable Restrain Run Same Satirize Savage Scandalous Scape Scholar School Seed Shoal Shun Sink Smack Sour Specifical Spend Stand Standing Starve Stiffness Stigmatize Stop Subah Subahdar Subdean Subprior Subsistence Success Sufferer Sully Sway Swinge Take Thorny Thrice Thrive Throughout Tolerate Torrent Traverse Undo Unreclaimed Unreformed Unsting Usually Usurp Vice Vice-admiralty Vicegerency Vicegerent Vicenary Viceroyalty Viceroyship Viciate Vicious Viciousness Virtue Virtuous Viscosity Vitiate Wallow Warmth We Weed Wicked Wretch Youth
Abandoned Adhesion Administer Admiral Aim Amendment Antiscians Antithesis Aptitude Atonement Attendant Aulic Auricle Bane Bashaw Beget Betake Blacken Blush Bode Bolt Brand Caliber Censor Come Comedy Complain Condition Confederacy Confident Conjunction Connivance Connive Consequent Constable Contagion Contemptible Contrariety Counsel Cross-examine Customary Daub Debasing Debt Default Deform Degrade Degree Deism Demerit Deputy Detraction Devious Difficult Dignity Discern Discernment Discountenance Disease Disgrace Dishonorable Dissimulation Dissipated Dissipation Dissolute Dissuasive Distinguish Down Draw Duteous Empirical Emulate Enervate Equality Eradicate Even-tide Exaggerate Exemplary Exertion Expensive Exterminate Extermination Extreme Failing Fascinate Faultless Fellow-rake First-fruit Flaccidness Flagellant Flagitious Flatter Flood Fondness For Fortitude Frontless Frown Genuine Gerent Give Glue Go Greatness Grieve Grog Gross Grossness Grow Growth Guard Habituate Hardened Hatred Idleness Ignominy Impious Impoverish Incompatible Increase Indiscretion Individual Inductive Indulge Infamous Infamousness Infatuation Infectious Injure Injury Inseparable Inveigh Inversion Irreclaimable Irrecoverably Irregularity Irritability Jade Keep Lash Lavish Lead Lesson Level Low Maintain Meet Ministerial Misery Moral Moralist Morals Natural Nickname Notorious Noxious Nurse Odious Old Once Ordination Overbalance Owing Palliate Palliation Panderism Parent Pashaw Pernicious Post Practice Prefectship Preferable Present Preserve President Prevailing Prevalence Price Procede Produce Profligacy Profligate Promote Provoke Pure Quality Rake Rampancy Rampant Ranging Reason Reflect Reform Reformation Regel Regnant Reigning Relapse Relapser Relapsing Repent Reptile Reputable Restrain Run Same Satirize Savage Scandalous Scape Scholar School Seed Shoal Shun Sink Smack Sour Specifical Spend Stand Standing Starve Stiffness Stigmatize Stop Subah Subahdar Subdean Subprior Subsistence Success Sufferer Sully Sway Swinge Take Thorny Thrice Thrive Throughout Tolerate Torrent Traverse Undo Unreclaimed Unreformed Unsting Usually Usurp Vice Vice-admiralty Vicegerency Vicegerent Vicenary Viceroyalty Viceroyship Viciate Vicious Viciousness Virtue Virtuous Viscosity Vitiate Wallow Warmth We Weed Wicked Wretch Youth
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