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vitious

vitious

English

Adjective

vitious (comparative more vitious, superlative most vitious)

  1. Obsolete form of vicious.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.x:
      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.