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Vice

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The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English | 2009 | Copyright

vice1 / vīs/ • n. immoral or wicked behavior. ∎  criminal activities involving prostitution, pornography, or drugs. ∎  an immoral or wicked personal characteristic. ∎  a weakness of character or behavior; a bad habit: cigars happen to be my father's vice. DERIVATIVES: vice·less adj.vice2 • n. British spelling of vise. vice3 / vīs; ˈvīsē; ˈvīsə/ • prep. as a substitute for: the letter was drafted by David Hunt, vice Bevin who was ill. vice4 (also vice-) • comb. form acting as deputy or substitute for; next in rank: vice regent vice-consul.

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The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre | 1996 | | Copyright

Vice, character in the English morality play. Originally an attendant on the Devil, whom he helped in his attacks on mankind, he eventually became a figure of fun and a cynical and sardonic commentator on the action of the play. In Twelfth Night the Clown, who took over many of the Vice's attributes, refers to him as ‘the old Vice …with dagger of lath’.
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West's Encyclopedia of American Law | 2005 | Copyright

VICE

A fault, flaw, defect, or imperfection. Immoral conduct, practice, or habit.

In civil law, redhibitory vices are defects or flaws in the subject matter of a sale that entitle the buyer to return the item and recover the purchase price.

A vice crime is any type of immoral and illegal activity, such as prostitution, the sale of drugs and narcotics, and gambling.
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | | Copyright

vice2 †winding staircase XIV; †screw XV; tool with two jaws opening and closing by means of a screw XVI. — (O)F. vis :- L. vītis vine, vine stem, prop. tendril, plant with tendrils, rel. to viēre twine.
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | | Copyright

vice3 orig. sb. use of the prefix VICE- in the sense ‘deputy’; in more recent use, the second el. is usu. implied or expressed in the context.
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | | Copyright

vice1 corruption of morals, wicked practice XIII; fault, defect XIV. — (O)F. — L. vitium physical or other defect, fault, vice.
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | | Copyright

vice4 in place OF. XVIII. — L., abl. of *vix, extant only in obl. forms vicis, vicem, vice, vicēs, vicibus.
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The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable | 2006 | | Copyright

vice immoral or wicked behaviour; often personified, especially as a character in a morality play.
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A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture | 2000 | | Copyright

vice, vis, vyse. Spiral stair constructed round a central newel or pier.
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The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military | 2001 | Copyright

vice n. informal short for vice admiral, etc.
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Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes | 2007 | Copyright

vice •Chrissie, Cissy, kissy, missy, prissy, sissy •dixie, pixie, tricksy, Trixie •chintzy, De Quincey, wincey •efficiency, proficiency, sufficiency •Gypsy, tipsy •ditzy, glitzy, itsy-bitsy, Mitzi, ritzy, Uffizi •Eurydice •odyssey, theodicy •sub judice • prophecy • anglice •chaplaincy • policy • baronetcy •governessy • Pharisee • actressy •clerisy, heresy •secrecy • statice • captaincy •courtesy •dicey, icy, pricey, spicy, vice •stridency • sightsee •bossy, Flossie, flossy, glossy, mossy, posse •boxy, doxy, epoxy, foxy, moxie, poxy, proxy •bonxie •poncey, sonsy •dropsy, popsy •biopsy • heterodoxy • orthodoxy •autopsy •advice, bice, Brice, choc ice, concise, dice, entice, gneiss, ice, imprecise, lice, mice, nice, precise, price, rice, sice, slice, speiss, spice, splice, suffice, syce, thrice, trice, twice, underprice, vice, Zeiss •merchandise • paradise • sacrifice •packice • woodlice • fieldmice •titmice • dormice • allspice •cockatrice • edelweiss

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