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▪ I. invitiate, a. rare.|ɪnˈvɪʃɪət|
[f. in-3 + vitiate ppl. a.]
Without blemish; unmarred.
1869Lowell Cathedral 169 Hers shall be The invitiate firstlings of experience.
▪ II. † inˈvitiate, v. Obs.
[f. med. or mod.L. invitiāt-, ppl. stem of invitiāre (cf. It. invitiare, Florio, 1598), f. in- (in-2) + L. vitiāre to vitiate.]
trans. To render vicious; to corrupt, spoil.
1598Florio, Inuitiare, to growe vitious or wicked; to corrupt, to inuitiate. 1656Blount Glossogr., Invitiate (invitio), to mar, to spoil, to defile. |