VICE
\vˈa͡ɪs], \vˈaɪs], \v_ˈaɪ_s]\
Definitions of VICE
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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A moral fault or failing; especially, immoral conduct or habit, as in the indulgence of degrading appetites; customary deviation in a single respect, or in general, from a right standard, implying a defect of natural character, or the result of training and habits; a harmful custom; immorality; depravity; wickedness; as, a life of vice; the vice of intemperance.
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The buffoon of the old English moralities, or moral dramas, having the name sometimes of one vice, sometimes of another, or of Vice itself; -- called also Iniquity.
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A kind of instrument for holding work, as in filing. Same as Vise.
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A tool for drawing lead into cames, or flat grooved rods, for casements.
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A gripe or grasp.
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To hold or squeeze with a vice, or as if with a vice.
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In the place of; in the stead; as, A. B. was appointed postmaster vice C. D. resigned.
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Denoting one who in certain cases may assume the office or duties of a superior; designating an officer or an office that is second in rank or authority; as, vice president; vice agent; vice consul, etc.
By Oddity Software
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A moral fault or failing; especially, immoral conduct or habit, as in the indulgence of degrading appetites; customary deviation in a single respect, or in general, from a right standard, implying a defect of natural character, or the result of training and habits; a harmful custom; immorality; depravity; wickedness; as, a life of vice; the vice of intemperance.
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A kind of instrument for holding work, as in filing. Same as Vise.
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A tool for drawing lead into cames, or flat grooved rods, for casements.
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A gripe or grasp.
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To hold or squeeze with a vice, or as if with a vice.
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In the place of; in the stead; as, A. B. was appointed postmaster vice C. D. resigned.
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Denoting one who in certain cases may assume the office or duties of a superior; designating an officer or an office that is second in rank or authority; as, vice president; vice agent; vice consul, etc.
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The buffoon of the old English moralities, or moral dramas, having the name sometimes of one vice, sometimes of another, or of itself; - called also Iniquity.
By Noah Webster.
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A fault, defect, or blemish; an immoral practice or habit; abandonment to evil; immorality; an instrument used to hold things firmly in two jaws tightened by a screw; also spelled vise.
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Entitled to fill an office in the absence of its holder; as, vice president; denoting the office of one so entitled; second in rank; as, vice admiral.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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An iron or wooden screw press, fixed to the edge of a workboard, for holding anything tightly while being filed, etc.
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A blemish or fault: immoral conduct: depravity of manners: a bad trick or habit in a horse.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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Depravity; gross immorality.
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A bad trick, as of a horse.
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Same as VISE.
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Instead of; in the place of.
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Substitute; subordinate; sub-; second.
By James Champlin Fernald
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A Latin prefix signifying second in rank, or acting in the place of.
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A defect, fault, blemish, or imperfection; any voluntary action or course of conduct which deviates from the rules of moral rectitude; depravity of manners; a fault or bad trick in a horse.
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An iron or wooden press with a screw, for holding articles fast when filed, &c.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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Denoting one who acts in place of another; denoting one who is second in authority, but holding the same title; denoting the office itself, as vice-admiral, vice-chancellor, vice-president, &c.
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Used as a separate word before a proper name, and means in the place of, as B vice C resigned-that is, B in the place of C, who has resigned.
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A small iron or wooden press tightened by a screw, used for holding fast an object on which a person is at work, as in the process of filing, &c.
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A blemish; an imperfection; depravity or corruption of conduct; the opposite of virtue; a fault or bad trick in horses.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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n. [Latin] A defect; a fault; a blemish ; an imperfection ;—a moral fault or failing; especially, immoral conduct or habit; unworthy or undesirable custom;—depravity or corruption of manners;—a bad trick in a horse;—a character in the old English moralities; iniquity ; wickedness.
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n. [French] A smith's instrument consisting of two jaws, closing by n screw, for holding work, as in filing;—a grasp; a gripe;— in architecture, a spiral or winding staircase.
