vitiation
suomi-englanti sanakirjavitiation englannista suomeksi
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vitiation englanniksi
a reduction in the value, or an impairment in the quality of something
1810, George Wilson, M.D., F.R.D.E. Ch. II. General Sketch of Cavendish's Scientific Researches and Discoveries, in ''The Life of the Honble Henry Cavendish'', p. 39.
- (..) air was universally reputed to be a simple or elementary body. It was liable, according to the phlogistians, to vitiation, by the addition to it of phlogiston (..) being more or less phlogisticated, according to the degree of its power to support respiration and combustion.
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an abolition or abrogation