vitiousとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

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.

   • 1649, [John] Milton, chapter IX, in [Eikonoklastes]  […], London: Printed by Matthew Simmons,  […], OCLC 1044608640, page 79–80:

     For our Religion where was there a more ignorant, profane, and vitious clergy, learned in nothing but the antiquitie of thir pride, thir covetouſnesſs and ſuperſtition