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English
Adjective
vitious (comparative more vitious, superlative most vitious)
- Obsolete form of vicious.
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. , London: [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:Matter of doubt and dread suspitious, / That doth with curelesse care consume the hart, / Corrupts the stomacke with gall vitious, / Croscuts the liuer with internall smart, / And doth transfixe the soule with deathes eternall dart.
1649, J Milton, chapter IX, in ΕΙΚΟΝΟΚΛΆΣΤΗΣ , London: Matthew Simmons, , →OCLC, pages 79–80:For our Religion where was there a more ignorant, profane, and vitious clergy, learned in nothing but the antiquitie of thir pride, thir covetouſnesſs and ſuperſtition