How To Use Vitiate In A Sentence

Strategic policy during the War was vitiated because of a sharp division between "easterners" and "westerners".
If it does not reject this biased report, it would vitiate itself, it would begin - or re-begin the process of vitiating itself from its own relevance and importance. CNN Transcript Sep 24, 2009
The demands made upon Martin in the novitiate in his difficult work with the dying - and the hard-won joy it brings - lead to a further thought.
For reasons already given we do not accept that the judge's self-direction was vitiated by legal misdirection.
The first occupants of the novitiate were the founder himself, his first associate, Father La Vavasseur, and a sub-deacon, M. Collin. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy

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Tom Goldstein, dean of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where impressionable novitiates are prepared for the high calling of the Fourth Estate, avowed that Wright was just ‘a corporate citizen’ doing his job.
This unvitiated region stands in no need of the veil of twilight to soften or disguise its features.
Finally, an apparently valid consent may be vitiated if it is obtained by fraud, which includes cases where a professional deliberately withholds information in bad faith, or by misrepresenting the nature of the proposed care.
She entered the novitiate soon after her baptism and pronounced her final vows on September 19, 1699.
He rejuvenates and remoulds spiritually enervated souls and purifies their intellects by imparting unvitiated Gita knowledge to them.
Moreover, these dispensations are supposed to be given motu proprio and with certain knowledge, from which it follows that they are not vitiated by obreption or by subreption. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock
Is not your problem that the sentencing judge made mistakes which vitiated his decision and enabled the Court of Criminal Appeal to exercise its own discretion?
Is a pedimento vitiated if obtained by fraud, or only if it is obtained through forgery?
But he shows that caries is caused by the lime salts in the teeth being attacked by _acids_ from decomposing food in crevices, from artificial drink such as cyder, from sugar, from medicine, and from vitiated secretions of the mouth. Are the Effects of Use and Disuse Inherited? An Examination of the View Held by Spencer and Darwin
Testaments were vitiated in several ways: nullum, void from the beginning, where there was a defect in the institution of the heir or incapacity in the testator; injustum, not legally executed and hence void; ruptum, by revocation or by the agnation of a posthumous child, either natural or civil; irruptum, where the testator had lost the civil status necessary for testation; destitutum, where the heir defaulted because dead or unwilling, or upon failure of the condition; recissum, as the consequence of a legal attack upon an undutiful will. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
The book promotion led Florida Atlantic University student Sarah Jeck to ask Scalia if the Supreme Court's opposition to having its proceedings televised was "vitiated" by, among other things, "Supreme Court justices going out on book tours. Think Progress
One important issue is when an apparent consent will be vitiated because it was given under duress or without full knowledge of the material facts.
Canon law stipulates that the novitiate should be a separate house or area. MONIALES OP
Once the ceremony was over, the novitiates, priestesses and nuns gathered together in the great hall beneath the statue of Auset for a feast.
Strategic policy during the War was vitiated because of a sharp division between "easterners" and "westerners".
Born and raised in a farming family at Kyledellig, he went to school in Aghaboe and from there to Tullow, Co. Carlow, where he entered the novitiate in 1942.
His sister, Isabella, a cloistered novitiate, petitions Angelo for mercy.
All were nobles, trained in the profession of arms, and this period – which might be described as a novitiate – was the crucible in which the specific spirituality of the Templars gradually took shape. Archive 2009-03-01
Conscience prevailing, he was received at Douai, then sent from Rome by the Jesuits to Bohemia to serve his novitiate, before being reordained in Prague.
In spite of our capacity for good, we seem caught in a web of evil that vitiates everything we do. Even what is basically good can be distorted.
For the corruption of weak choices results in a chain of habit being formed, which fetters the character and becomes second nature, flawed or ‘vitiated’ nature.
It is said on behalf of the Claimant that this vitiated the decision-making process because it was misleading.
Chief minister BS Yeddyurappa cautioned the Congress against any attempt to "vitiate" the law and order situation with their provocative speeches and asserted that his government was capable of handling such situations. Daily News & Analysis
They are therefore never filled with entirely pure, unvitiated air.
His taste for images dated from his novitiate and is marked by a sensibility comparable to that of the nuns he later governed.
The judge's discretion was therefore vitiated because the merits of any defence were considerably greater than he had been led to believe.
During the year of her novitiate it was supposed to give the convent 100 ducados as a maintenance allowance.
Fresh from the novitiate she spent some early years caring for the boarders in Belmullet.
This ceremony also signaled the beginning of her novitiate - a year-long ‘trial’ period in which she lived among the convent community, observing its rules and strictures.
Now Wats are inhabited by monks, teachers, nuns, novitiates, school children, street-side sellers and tourists.
After a year as a novitiate in De Soto, Missouri, he proceeded to the major seminary of the Redemptorist Fathers in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin.
Nevertheless, the municipal court held that in the present case there was no valid offer because defendant's unilateral mistake of fact vitiated or negated contractual intent.
Multiple entitlements vitiate demands based on prior existence, occupance, use and discovery.
But this does not vitiate his scholarship.
Attached to the novitiate are a teacher's seminary and practice school. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
This kind of meaningless rhetoric vitiates Craven's discussion of the issue.
The 'yes' vote was vitiated by the low turnout in the election.
In a situation that involves a plurality of faiths, a common dress code thus strikes me as a medium of secular arbitration, a function that is vitiated by a blatant divergence from the uniform.
There are stern mother superiors, innocent novitiates, jolly sisters.
As with any other contracts, compromises or consent orders may be vitiated by a common mistake of law.
There is abundant authority to show that such frauds as these vitiate consent both in the case of rape and in the case of indecent assault.
He studied with Fr John in his novitiate and then assisted him with the establishment of the first Christian Meditation Centre in London in 1975 which was the origin of The World Community for Christian Meditation.
There were ladies in search of necklaces, and men, it seemed to Kim — but his mind may have been vitiated by early training — in search of the ladies; natives from independent and feudatory Courts whose ostensible business was the repair of broken necklaces — rivers of light poured out upon the table — but whose true end seemed to be to raise money for angry Kim
The partial nature of such accounts of the research process can leave the novitiate insufficiently prepared for the actual experience of ‘doing’ research, which can come as something of a shock.
Her movement from the Roman Catholicism of childhood, through a brief novitiate, and on to Quaker and then Buddhist practice is not a rarity in these days of picking at the religious buffet of the twenty-first century.
In the first place the market manager's presence and hearsay evidence vitiated proceedings, it being against natural justice for a prosecutor to be present during deliberations.
Inside novitiate but the probation that set does not exceed 6 months.
She suddenly longed to down the rest, but she resisted the urge and withdrew to a position with other novitiates whose glowing smiles echoed the elation swelling within her own breast.
This does not mean that every deviation from procedural regularity and legal correctness vitiates a jury's verdict of guilty.
She began her novitiate in India and took the name of Teresa, taking her final vows in 1939.
But though there is an inaccuracy in saying that the freezing of water is due to the loss of its heat, no practical error arises from it; nor will a parallel laxity of expression vitiate our statements respecting the multiplication of effects. Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library
This property of addictive desires distorts the phenomenological field of agency in such a way that my powers of reflective self-control are vitiated but not destroyed.
The abbot told him he needed more time in the novitiate. Times, Sunday Times
I am not satisfied that the first or third of those matters affected the Judge's judgment to the point where any error should vitiate that judgment.
According to her own notes and this account in today's Sun-Sentinel, Jeck asked whether the rationale for Scalia's well-known opposition to cameras in the Supreme Court was "vitiated" by the facts that the Court allows public visitors to view arguments and releases full argument transcripts to the public, and that justices go out on book tours. How Dahlia Lithwick would like you to think about Supreme Court appointments: liberal = moderate, conservative = extreme.
The building is a fine example of a Victorian venerable property, built in 1881 as a novitiate for the Sisters of Charity.
The conviction is unsafe in that the trial process was vitiated by serious unfairness in that the officers clearly incited or persuaded the defendant to obtain heroin for ‘Ange’.
The convent countered that those sums had been for the year of her novitiate, but that her formal profession involved a new set of expenses.
The sponsors must certify their student's brilliance, character, and most importantly, their desire to enter the novitiate. THE BROKEN GOD
Strategic policy during the War was vitiated because of a sharp division between "easterners" and "westerners".
WE DENY that alleged errors and discrepancies that have not yet been resolved vitiate the truth claims of the Bible.
vitiated" because, shortly after the provision was enacted, the Supreme Court held in, Simple Justice
There are teachers, nuns, novitiates, school children, street vendors and even tourists.
Well today there wouldn't be 50 people entering novitiates or convents or monasteries probably around Australia I think.
Might this vitiate the importance of the cover?
The novitiate, blindfolded and noosed, was brought before them and a gun fired into the air.
Finally, the argument from the unlikelihood of physical constants is vitiated by modern cosmogonic theory and recrudesces the God-of-the-gaps Elliott Sober: What is wrong with Intelligent Design? - The Panda's Thumb
One of the reasons coven novitiates must wait a year and a day before a formal initiation is to allow the novitiate time to experience the mysteries of the Craft; a personal understanding of Pagan symbolism in the proper context.
This rice is currently being tested by novitiates at a convent in the Philippines to see how well the nutrients are absorbed in the human body.
He died of heart failure on Easter, April 11, 1955, and was interred in the cemetery of the Jesuit novitiate on the Hudson River, north of New York City.
Although repetition and an occasional diffuseness mar Evans's magnificent achievement (these flaws vitiated his first volume as well), when his game is on, as it usually is, few can rival his ability to write crisply argued history. War Without End
By such preference is our superior and supreme regard for Jesus and his word vitiated or invalidated? Aurelian or, Rome in the Third Century
He said that American military power should never again be vitiated by political concerns.
What happens if a motion for cloture is “vitiated” or there is “no action”? Matthew Yglesias » Filibuster Panel Tomorrow
Angelo thus becomes a white-suited district officer who condemns the Eurasian Claudio for fornication while lusting after his novitiate sister, Isabella.
The attraction which the blood has for phlogiston cannot be so strong as that with which plants and insects attract it from the air, and then the blood cannot convert air into aerial acid; still it becomes converted into an air which lies midway between fire-air and aerial acid, that is, a vitiated air; for it unites neither with lime nor with water after the manner of fire-air and it extinguishes fire, after that of aerial acid. Discovery of Oxygen, Part 2
When a group of nuns came through Sligo looking for a place to build a convent novitiate and school for girls, great grandfather gave them several acres of his little farm.
Granada, from which its austere anchorites had been driven by the barbarous decree of exclaustration (1835), was acquired and restored by the Jesuits, who have established in it their novitiate for New The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
Xenocles affirmed, that ripe fruit had usually a pleasing, vellicating sapor, and thereby provoked the appetite better than sauces or sweetmeats; for sick men of a vitiated stomach usually recover it by eating fruit. Symposiacs
Well! there are a certain number of organs which are vitiated by their lack, by their constitution, others which are vitiated by an excess of afflux. Balzac
Our heroine followed, entering the convent herself as a novitiate.
There he attended a preparatory school for the novitiate.
He writes that this clause "is not an independent source of federal power" and "would vitiate the enumerated powers principle. The Constitutional Moment
I address myself not to the young enthusiast only, but to the ardent devotee of truth and virtue the pure and passionate moralist yet unvitiated by the contagion of the world.
The claimants submit that that is a decision to which no reasonable planning authority could come and it vitiates the defendant's consideration of the planning application.
Ed had entered the Jesuit novitiate in the summer of 1975, just one month after his high school graduation.
The proliferation of vocations requires the building of novitiates, seminaries and monasteries.
It is a duty society owes to itself to discountenance everything which tends to vitiate public taste. A Renegade History of the United States
The same trait often appears in living things which are not believed to be closely related by evolution, and this occurs often enough to vitiate Eldredge's premise about nested hierarchies.
I have called vitiated air (§ 29), with 4 parts of our fire-air, and placed the bottle, inverted and open, in a vessel which was also filled with a solution of liver of sulphur. Discovery of Oxygen, Part 2
There are a lot of other people who also bear responsibility, however, that does not vitiate Joe Paterno's duties to the victimized children. Joe Paterno, the Penn State Tragedy and Child Molestation
Strategic policy during the War was vitiated because of a sharp division between "easterners" and "westerners".
Our training took place at The Novitiate Nazareth, a very nice retreat center that is a convent aka nunnery by some locals. Way Down South
It is a duty society owes to itself to discountenance everything which tends to vitiate public taste. A Renegade History of the United States
In less than two months, the first Bloody Sword recruits would have completed their novitiates and be eligible to swear Sword Oath, and Hurthang wasn't the only Horse Stealer who worried about what would happen then.
The air was so pure and unvitiated that it was a delight to breathe it.
There is nothing in the law which would allow me to vitiate a fairly negotiated contract for lawful purposes.
Strategic policy during the War was vitiated because of a sharp division between "easterners" and "westerners".
As Tony Mauro explained, Jeck "asked whether the rationale for Scalia's well-known opposition to cameras in the Supreme Court was 'vitiated' by the facts that the Court allows public visitors to view arguments and releases full argument transcripts to the public, and that justices go out on book tours. Political Animal
Defection on the way to Americanization was common; vitiated practice and invincible vagueness about belief and conviction were not a cause for alarm but the best that could be achieved under unpropitious conditions.
No such Variation shall vitiate or invalidate this Contract.
There Was an Ancient House presents a disillusioned view of life in a Jesuit novitiate.
Strategic policy during the War was vitiated because of a sharp division between "easterners" and "westerners".
The Rugby house, which had from 1850 the English novitiate, became in 1886 a juniorate, or preparatory school for novices. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock
Meeting in semisecrecy in the Jesuit novitiate on Rue de Pot de Fer Saint-Sulpice, the brethren of the Nine Sisters gathered to praise Jones in the most fulsome fashion. John Paul Jones
As the success of the restoration depends more upon wellformed teachers than on methods, the novitiate of every motherhouse should provide for all its candidates a gradual and complete course of Chant, not on a theoretical, but on an experimental basis. What is unique to Catholic music?
Martin confesses that he cried from anxiety his first night in the novitiate and that, as part of his formation, cutting smelly, overgrown toenails in Jamaica sickened him.
He had always wished to be a Jesuit, and, after a novitiate which is described as most edifying, he became a professed member of the Order. The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century
In our monastery the novitiate is the brighest, most beautiful part of the house with the best view! MONIALES OP
As a matter of natural justice and procedural fairness, if his departure is so radical as to vitiate the agreement, that would have to be pursued.
Even in the golden days of my novitiate, such places were few and far between.
While O'Herlihy's panel gives his show more depth, the comedy programme presented by Keane and Taylor is vitiated by a cacophony of voices.
Before starting her novitiate in October 1933, Edith spoke with the prioress, who felt there was so much she still could do outside the convent.
The rush became a flood after the fiasco of Humanae Vitae in 1968 and seminaries, novitiates and training colleges fell like ninepins as many, if not most, priests, brothers and nuns chose lay life at a rate not seen since the Reformation.
And why should he be made bankrupt if his apparent inability to pay is vitiated by the counterclaim or cross-demand?
But in this same answer, that great saint recounts another admirable example of a great zeal, proceeding from a very good soul, which was however spoilt and vitiated by the excess of anger which it had stirred up.
This was the era of the sleep sessions, the trance-like states Breton and Philippe Soupault encouraged novitiates to enter into, through which they would speak and write ‘automatically.’
The physician Hequet understood by slow bellies, that the Cretans were costive, which vitiated their blood, and rendered them ill-disposed and mischievous. A Philosophical Dictionary
To what extent will imperfect, but still good, administration vitiate the efficiency properties of the tax?
The Democritean vision of elementary particles as miniature snooker balls, however, has been somewhat vitiated by quantum theory, and it is not merely the classical notion of a particle as a localisable entity which has been undermined, but the mereological notion that a composite system has a unique decomposition into elementary entities. Archive 2009-02-01
There must be present some factor which could in law be regarded as coercion of will so as to vitiate consent.
At his investiture, the novitiate describes being reduced to a skeleton by spirits who devour and then restore his flesh.
David Jansen calls for new monastic communities to provide intentional spiritual formation, similar to the traditional novitiate.
(Of course, this finding doesn't vitiate the importance of how children are fed, and eat, after they descend onto the earth.) Stanton Peele: Human Genome Project: We Discover Much that Genetics Can't Tell Us
Perhaps sixty of them are chosen for the novitiate. The Broken God
A claustral oblate candidate may be received into the novitiate by the abbot with the consent of the chapter.
Swaraj noted that the atmosphere was "vitiated" and therefore the leaders thought that it was "inappropriate" to attend the lunch. Top Headlines
And then we see that the Maytag novitiate is in the back room with a cell phone, foiled in his attempt to get the box of Cheez-Its. CROSSOVER OF THE WEEK (THIS WEEK, REALLY!)
She enters from the left, posed as if she were a novitiate approaching the altar, her movements guided by her ‘double’ to her left.
Strategic policy during the War was vitiated because of a sharp division between "easterners" and "westerners".
He and other engineers huddled over the gun like nuns inspecting a novitiate, but they could find no flaw.
The latter, though obliged to respect the prerogatives of the novice-master, remains the real immediate superior of the novices, and outside that part of the house which is called the novitiate, the direction of the entire community belongs exclusively to him. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip
You are speaking, I suppose, of some rule of life, some kind of novitiate to which you had to submit yourself," said Mr. Harland -- The Life Everlasting; a reality of romance
Of course the appellate tribunal also has the power to overturn the Commissioners' conclusion on the ground of an error of law, but only if that error vitiates the conclusion.
Satan "and" professed enemies of God "trying to bring in" adulterine rites "and vitiate the pure worship. The Age of the Reformation
Unfortunately, there is little longitudinal research concerning psychosocial changes occurring after entrance into seminaries or novitiates.
Similarly, in the thirteenth century, the peripatetic general chapter of the Franciscan Order regulated matters as central to the life of the local priories as the form and content of the novitiate and where it should be spent.
These comprised the abbot's apartments and chapel, rooms for guests, entrance hall, parlours, novitiate, and clericate. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
The court noted that, as a practical matter, the "all elements" rule informs a doctrine of equivalents analysis by requiring that equivalence be assessed on a limitation-by-limitation basis, rather than from the perspective of the invention as a whole, and that no limitation be read completely out of the claim i.e., "vitiated". Archive 2006-11-01
In 1930 the estate was taken over by the Jesuit order, which used it as a novitiate.
His spirit was vitiated by pleasure seeking.
It is our submission that the course adopted by the learned trial judge has vitiated the verdict in a number of ways.
You cannot solve or thwart sin by sinning; you cannot claim to be upholding truth and human dignity by taking selective measures or employing means that vitiate core principles. Do you think "Consent is Sexy"?
He entered the novitiate of the Capuchin Friars at the age of 15.
Liquidity traps can vitiate it on the downside, but when inflation threatens, tightening the money supply and raising interest rates will discourage spending.
Finally permission to resign the cardinalitial dignity having been given in full consistory (1839), Odescalchi entered the novitiate at The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip
That the singer, Cervantes' Don Quixote, is certainly delusional, possibly mad, doesn't vitiate the song's potency.
His spirit was vitiated by pleasure seeking.
The air of assurance and dignity about it all was exceedingly noticeable to the novitiate.
After serving in Detroit for twenty-one years, seventy-four-year-old Solanus was sent to New York, then to the novitiate in Indiana.
A novitiate, juniorate, and scholasticate of the Society is established at The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner
In such a beautiful and spiritual atmosphere I spent nine of those noontime years - three in the minor seminary, one in the novitiate, four in the major seminary and one in the infirmary when I was stricken with a severe bout of tuberculosis.
Under the old law a mistake would vitiate the expert's determination if it could be shown that it affected the result.
In 1909 he entered the novitiate of the Jesuits in Freiburg but left after only two weeks, ostensibly on health grounds.
Do not get discouraged if in the early stages of your novitiate you cannot successfully translate these basic principles into practice.
To satisfy this genus of men, women are made systematically voluptuous, and though they may not all carry their libertinism to the same height, yet this heartless intercourse with the sex, which they allow themselves, depraves both sexes, because the taste of men is vitiated; and women, of all classes, naturally square their behaviour to gratify the taste by which they obtain pleasure and power. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
While other novitiates were humbly perfecting the simple front kick, I would be leaping into the air and spinning like a Bruce Lee wannabe.
He became a Trappist, sent to make a novitiate near Syria.
In September 1969 he joined the SVD in Donamon where he did his novitiate.
The novitiate is a very unique, very privileged time of a sister's monastic life. MONIALES OP
Just remembered that I completely forgot to add a Word of the Week this week - so in view of the topic, how about 'vitiate'? Light and Shade
Strategic policy during the War was vitiated because of a sharp division between "easterners" and "westerners".
-- The saline diluting fluid _must always_ be taken into the pipette first, otherwise if the serum contains a very large amount of agglutinin the traces of this serum added to the saline solution may be sufficient to entirely vitiate the subsequent observations -- whilst if more than one sample of serum is diluted from the same saline solution serious errors may be introduced into the experiments. The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged.
The state's interest in effective crime-fighting should never vitiate the citizens' Bill of Rights.
In order to instill the necessary discipline in a novitiate, all emotion must be eradicated from the master's side of the equation.
Under the government of the Marquis della Sambuca, who, though a great regalist, was a personal friend of the Saint's, there was promise of better times, and in August, 1779, Alphonsus's hopes were raised by the publication of a royal decree allowing him to appoint superiors in his Congregation and to have a novitiate and house of studies. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize

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