The rod must be applied to the work in the same position in which its measurement was made, otherwise its deflection may vitiate the measurement.
It is found, however, that if too much time is occupied in this test, the heat of the operator's body will affect the temperature of the bars, and therefore expand them and vitiate the comparison.
Every spray from such a mouth in coughing, sneezing, or even talking or reading, is laden with microbes which vitiate the air to be breathed by others.
As bad teeth, enlarged tonsils, and adenoids harbor germs and putrescent matter that vitiate every incoming and outgoing breath, these defects should be immediately corrected.
And excess doth insensibly vitiate the blood, and heap up matter of many diseases which are incurable, before the sot will believe that drinking when he was thirsty did him any harm.
Yea, the evil is prevalent in the will against the good, so far as to commit those sins, though not so far as to vitiate the bent of heart or life.
I may express my regret that you seem to vitiate the force of the statement altogether by the use of the unscientific phrase "in a manner.
The indirect effects of heat appear in the production of poisonous gases which vitiate the air and render it more or less prejudicial to health.
Allowing ten cubic feet to each person per minute, two occupants would vitiate the air of the room in fifty minutes, and four in twenty-five minutes.
No room is well ventilated, unless as much pure air is brought into it as the occupants vitiate at every respiration.
The sympathizing friends should not be permitted to stand about the patient, as they vitiate the air.
Meaning therefore that the Christian should live and breathe; in an atmosphere, as it were, of benevolence, she forbids whatever can tend to obstruct its diffusion orvitiate its purity.
The unknown coefficient of elasticity of concrete and the non-existent condition of no initial stress, vitiate entirely formulas supported by these two props.
This is not true in a reinforced concrete building where each support may settle independently and entirely vitiate calculated continuous stresses.
That is a general rule, and was never intended to vitiatethe authority of conscience.
This principle, it will be observed, does not vitiate the claim of the slave to his own freedom; it only affects the parties concerned in the political structure of general society.
They vitiate the action of every law which depends on competition.
Their denials vitiate their affirmations and their affirmations vitiate their denials.
Should the mercury of the short column get detached, some small quantity of air may pass; but it will be arrested at the pipette, and will not vitiate the length of the barometric column.
If any air gets into the tube, it does not get to the top, and therefore does not vitiate the performance of the barometer; for the mercury itself works up and down through the funnel.
Boehm-Bawerk recognizes very well that the charge of circular reasoning, if it could be brought home to the Austrians, would vitiate their system.
The demand was grossly unjust, but the fact of its having been made would seem to all impartial persons to vitiateutterly all French claims to this territory, as an unmistakable acknowledgment of the Hova supremacy there.
And has their education prevented them from engaging in, or permitting, or condoning, the briberies, lobbyings, and other corrupt methods which vitiate the actions of your administrations?
If grief, anger, or excessive joy are able to vitiate secretions, and cause sickness and death, a happy frame of mind, intellectual exertion and moral excellence tend to the perfect health of these secretions.
That he found a kernel of truth can not be denied, but he allowed sources of error to creep in and vitiate his wonderfully suggestive and patient research.
The emanations from the surface of our bodies contribute, in a still greater degree, to vitiate the atmosphere, and to render it less fit for the healthful support of life.
Until theory arose to vitiate immediate intuition, that is to say to vitiate the uncriticised judgments which immediately arise from sense-awareness, no one doubted that in motion you leave behind that which is at rest.
But the insertion by the payee of the words "interest" after the making of a note by authority of maker will not vitiate it.
Nor does misdescription of the note vitiate the notice unless the party to whom the notice is given is in fact misled thereby.
Before applying the above processes it is absolutely necessary that we ascertain whether the peroxide examined contains any carbonates, as the presence of these would vitiate the results.
The gas has great illuminating power, requires no purification, and is quite free from the ammoniacal and sulphur compounds which vitiate coal-gas.
He entered his protest as usual against [Carlyle's] style, and said that since Johnson no writer had done so much to vitiate the English language.
They disgrace men in the entry into life, they vitiate and enslave them through the whole course of it, and they deprive them of all comfort at the conclusion of their dishonoured and depraved existence.
To destroy that order, they vitiate the whole community.
They vitiate their politics; they corrupt their morals; they pervert even the natural taste and relish of equity and justice.
They call on the rising generation in France to take a sympathy in the adventures and fortunes, and they endeavour to engage their sensibility on the side of pedagogues who betray the most awful family trusts, and vitiate their female pupils.
All sorts of shows and exhibitions, calculated to inflame and vitiate the imagination, and pervert the moral sense, have been contrived.
If froward men should refuse this cure, can theyvitiate anything but themselves?
On the contrary, without care it may be used tovitiate our minds and to destroy our happiness.
It appears certain that the quite disproportionate value attached by him to this one object obscured his perspective, if indeed it did not vitiate his whole policy.
They call on the rising generation in France to take a sympathy in the adventures and fortunes, and they endeavor to engage their sensibility on the side, of pedagogues who betray the most awful family trusts and vitiate their female pupils.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vitiate" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
