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[VICAR.] viçe (1), *viçe (1), *vis, s. [Fr. vice, from Lat. vitium =a vice, a fault.] 1. A fault, a blemish, a defect, an imperfection. "You have a vice of mercy in you." Shakesp.: Troilus and Cre ida , v. 3. 2. Any immoral or evil habit or practice; any evil habit or practice in which a person indulges; a moral fault or failing; immorality; customary deviation in a single respect or in general from a right standard; spec if., the indulgence of immoral, impure, or degrading appetites or pa ions. "Let me persuade you to think of that vice which, from my experience and from the testimony of others, is de vast at ing your life." -Canon Knox- Little , in London Echo. 3. Depravity or corruption of manners. (Used in a general or collective sense, and without any plural; as, an age of vice .) 4. A fault; a bad habit or trick in a horse. *5. The general title of the buffoon of the old moralities or moral plays. Often named_after one specific vice, as Iniquity, Covetousne , Fraud, . IMG:content-0494.png:[blocks in formation] "What a paltry creature is a man vice - bitten ."- Rich ards on: Sir C. Grand is on, vi. 181.