vindicatet (vindikat)

Vindicated. He makes Velleius highly vindicate from this imputation. J. Howe , Works, i. 2. vindication (vin-di-kā'shon), n. [ Broome, Notes on the Ody ey, iv. 375. It was now far too late in Clifford's life for the good opinion of society to be worth the trouble and anguish of a formal vindication . Hawthorne , Seven Gables, xxi. (b) The act of supporting by proof or legal proce ; the proving of anything to be true or just: as, the vindication of a title, claim, or right. (c) Defense from wrong or op pre ion, by force or otherwise; maintenance of a cause against an a ailant or enemy: as, the vindication of the rights of man; the vindication of liberties. If one proud man injure or oppre an humble man, it is a you sand to one another undertakes his patronage, defence, and vindication . Sir M. Hale , Humility. vindicative (vin'di-ka-tiv or vin-dik'a-tiv), a . [ vindicatif ; vindicativus , dicare , vindicate: see vindicate . Cf. vindictive .] 1. Tending to vindicate.-21. Punitory. God is angry without either perturbation or sin. His anger is in his nature, not by anthropopathy, but properly being his corrective justice, or his vindicative justice. 3t. Vindictive; Rev. T. Adams , Works, III. 267. revengeful. He in heat of action Is more vindicative than jealous love. Shak., T. and C., iv. 5. 107. Not to appear vindicative, Or mindful of contempts, which I contemned, As done of impotence. B. Jonson, Cynthia's Revels, v. 3.