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n.
Viceroyalty.
a.
Happening once in twenty years; as, a vicennial celebration.
n.
The office of a vicegerent.
a.
Of or pertaining to a viceroy or viceroyalty.
prep.
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.
n.
A defect; a fault; an error; a blemish; an imperfection; as, the vices of a political constitution; the vices of a horse.
n.
To live in filth or gross vice; to disport one's self in a beastly and unworthy manner.
prep.
In the place of; in the stead; as, A. B. was appointed postmaster vice C. D. resigned.
imp. & p. p.
of Vice
prep.
A large and handsome American butterfly (Basilarchia, / Limenitis, archippus). Its wings are orange-red, with black lines along the nervures and a row of white spots along the outer margins. The larvae feed on willow, poplar, and apple trees.
n.
Fault; defect; coarseness.
n.
The dignity, office, or jurisdiction of a viceroy.
a.
Addicted to vice; corrupt in principles or conduct; depraved; wicked; as, vicious children; vicious examples; vicious conduct.
n.
A smith who works at the vice instead of at the anvil.
prep.
The governor of a country or province who rules in the name of the sovereign with regal authority, as the king's substitute; as, the viceroy of India.
a.
Characterized by vice or defects; defective; faulty; imperfect.
pl.
of Viceman
n.
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.
n.
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.
v. t.
To hold or squeeze with a vice, or as if with a vice.
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