Vice

¹
n.

[F., from L. vitium.]

1. A defect; a fault; an error; a blemish; an imperfection; as, the vices of a political constitution; the vices of a horse.

Withouten vice of syllable or letter.

Chaucer.

Mark the vice of the procedure.

Sir W. Hamilton.

2. A moral fault or failing; especially, immoral conduct or habit, as in the indulgence of degrading appetites; customary deviation in a single respect, or in general, from a right standard, implying a defect of natural character, or the result of training and habits; a harmful custom; immorality; depravity; wickedness; as, a life of vice; the vice of intemperance.

I do confess the vices of my blood.

Shak.

Ungoverned appetite . . . a brutish vice.

Milton.

When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway,
The post of honor is a private station.

Addison.

3. The buffoon of the old English moralities, or moral dramas, having the name sometimes of one vice, sometimes of another, or of Vice itself; -- called also Iniquity.

Note: This character was grotesquely dressed in a cap with ass's ears, and was armed with a dagger of lath: one of his chief employments was to make sport with the Devil, leaping on his back, and belaboring him with the dagger of lath till he made him roar. The Devil, however, always carried him off in the end. Nares.

How like you the Vice in the play?
. . . I would not give a rush for a Vice that has not a wooden dagger to snap at everybody.

B. Jonson.

Syn. -- Crime; sin; iniquity; fault. See Crime.

Vice²
n.

[See Vise.]

1. (Mech.) A kind of instrument for holding work, as in filing. Same as Vise.

2. A tool for drawing lead into cames, or flat grooved rods, for casements. [Written also vise.]

3. A gripe or grasp. [Obs.] Shak.

Vice
v. t.

[imp. & p. p. Viced ; p. pr. & vb. n. Vicing .]
To hold or squeeze with a vice, or as if with a vice. Shak.

The coachman's hand was viced between his upper and lower thigh.

De Quincey.

Vi·ce
prep.

[L., abl. of vicis change, turn. See Vicarious.]
In the place of; in the stead; as, A. B. was appointed postmaster vice C. D. resigned.

Vice
a.

[Cf. F. vice-. See Vice, prep.]
Denoting one who in certain cases may assume the office or duties of a superior; designating an officer or an office that is second in rank or authority; as, vice president; vice agent; vice consul, etc.

Vice admiral. [Cf. F. vice-amiral.]
(a) An officer holding rank next below an admiral. By the existing laws, the rank of admiral and vice admiral in the United States Navy will cease at the death of the present incumbents. (b) A civil officer, in Great Britain, appointed by the lords commissioners of the admiralty for exercising admiralty jurisdiction within their respective districts. -- Vice admiralty, the office of a vice admiral. -- Vice-admiralty court, a court with admiralty jurisdiction, established by authority of Parliament in British possessions beyond the seas. Abbott. -- Vice chamberlain, an officer in court next in rank to the lord chamberlain. [Eng.] -- Vice chancellor. (a) (Law) An officer next in rank to a chancellor. (b) An officer in a university, chosen to perform certain duties, as the conferring of degrees, in the absence of the chancellor. (c) (R. C. Ch.) The cardinal at the head of the Roman Chancery. -- Vice consul [cf. F. vice-consul], a subordinate officer, authorized to exercise consular functions in some particular part of a district controlled by a consul. -- Vice king, one who acts in the place of a king; a viceroy. -- Vice legate [cf. F. vice-légat], a legate second in rank to, or acting in place of, another legate. -- Vice presidency, the office of vice president. -- Vice president [cf. F. vice-président], an officer next in rank below a president.

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noun

Degrading, immoral acts or habits: bestiality, corruption, depravity, flagitiousness, immorality, perversion, turpitude, villainousness, villainy, wickedness. See clean/dirty.

n

Definition: bad habit, weakness; sin
Antonyms: good point, propriety, strength, virtue

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n. informal short for vice admiral, etc.

See the Introduction, Abbreviations and Pronunciation for further details.

Vice, the, a stock character in medieval morality plays; he is a cynical kind of fool in the service of the Devil, and tries to tempt others in a comical but often sinister manner. The Vice is believed to be the ancestor of some later dramatic villains like Shakespeare's Iago, and of some more comic characters like his Falstaff.

vis, vyse

Spiral stair constructed round a central newel or pier.

The classic discussion is Book 7 of Aristotle's Nicomachaean Ethics, in which he distinguishes incontinence from intemperance. Incontinent people are impetuous, or weak. They know what they should do, but succumb to temptation, being carried away by their passions. Intemperate people on the other hand do wrong deliberately. They have an incorrect notion of the proper ends of human action. They are less prone to remorse, and less curable, than incontinent ones. See also virtue.

This entry contains information applicable to United States law only.

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.

Habitual abnormal behavior of a destructive kind. It is most common in horses, pigs and chickens but may occur in any species if the animals are kept in confined spaces. See crib-biting, weaving, pica, tail biting, ear sucking, toe picking.

IN BRIEF: n. - A specific form of evildoing; Moral weakness.

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it. — George Bernard Shaw, Source: Man and Superman

Quotes:

"Alas, human vices, however horrible one might imagine them to be, contain the proof (were it only in their infinite expansion) of man's longing for the infinite; but it is a longing that often takes the wrong route. It is my belief that the reason behind all culpable excesses lies in this depravation of the sense of the infinite." - Charles Baudelaire

"There are men so incorrigibly lazy that no inducement that you can offer will tempt them to work; so eaten up by vice that virtue is abhorrent to them, and so inveterately dishonest that theft is to them a master passion. When a human being has reached that stage, there is only one course that can be rationally pursued. Sorrowfully, but remorselessly, it must be recognized that he has become lunatic, morally demented, incapable of self-government, and that upon him, therefore, must be passed the sentence of permanent seclusion from a world in which he is not fit to be at large." - William Booth

"The vices we scoff at in others, laugh at us within ourselves." - Thomas Edward Brown

"Tobacco and alcohol, delicious fathers of abiding friendships and fertile reveries." - Luis Bunuel

"The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds." - Samuel Butler

"Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderated use rather than total abstinence." - Samuel Butler

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Dansk (Danish)
1.
n. - last, umoralitet, fejl, usædelighed

idioms:

• vice ring    prostitutionsliga
• vice squad    sædelighedsafdelingen

2.
n. - skruestik

3.
prep. - vice-, stedfortrædende

idioms:

• vice president    vicedirektør, vicepræsident

4.
n. - vice

5.

idioms:

• vice versa    omvendt

Nederlands (Dutch)
ontucht, ondeugd, bankschroef, slechtheid, zwakte, gebrek/smet, lichamelijke afwijking, pias, afwijkend gedrag in huisdier, vice-, in plaats van, liever dan, (in een bankschroef) vastzetten (ook figuurlijk)

Français (French)
1.
n. - vice, faiblesse

idioms:

• vice ring    milieu, pègre
• vice squad    brigade des m¯urs

2.
n. - (Tech) étau

3.
prep. - à la place de, en remplacement de

idioms:

• vice president    vice-président

4.
n. - diminutif de vice-président/vice-amiral etc

5.

idioms:

• vice versa    vice versa

Deutsch (German)
1.
n. - Laster, Fehler, Unart

idioms:

• vice ring    Verbrecherbande, die illegale Prostitution organisiert
• vice squad    Sittenpolizei

2.
n. - Schraubstock

3.
prep. - an Stelle von

idioms:

• vice president    Vizepräsident

4.
n. - (ugs.) Vize

5.

idioms:

• vice versa    umgekehrt

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - διαστροφή, βίτσιο, ακολασία, διαφθορά, μέγγενη, αμάρτημα, ελάττωμα, κουσούρι
v. - σφίγγω
prep. - αντί (του), υπό
pref. - αντί-, υπό-

idioms:

• vice president    αντιπρόεδρος
• vice ring    οργάνωση/δίκτυο πορνείας
• vice squad    (αστυνομική) Υπηρεσία/Τμήμα Ηθών
• vice versa    (και) αντιστρόφως, και τανάπαλιν

Italiano (Italian)
difetto, vizio, morsa

idioms:

• vice president    vicepresidente
• vice ring    banda criminale
• vice squad    la buoncostume
• vice versa    viceversa

Português (Portuguese)
n. - vício (m), imoralidade (f), vice- (título) (coloq.)
v. - prender no torno
prep. - em vez de
pref. - vice

idioms:

• vice president    vice-presidente
• vice ring    quadrilha
• vice squad    delegacia de costumes
• vice versa    vice-versa

Русский (Russian)
порок, недостаток, безнравственность, тиски

idioms:

• vice president    вице-президент
• vice ring    группа преступников, контролирующих работу проституток
• vice squad    подразделение полиции,зани- мающееся проститутками,торговцами наркотиками
• vice versa    наоборот

Español (Spanish)
1.
n. - vicio, defecto, comportamiento inmoral

idioms:

• vice ring    red de corrupción
• vice squad    brigada contra el vicio

2.
n. - torno o tornillo de banco

3.
prep. - como sustituto de, en lugar de, en vez de

idioms:

• vice president    vicepresidente

4.
n. - vicepresidente, vicealmirante

5.

idioms:

• vice versa    viceversa

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - last, fel, olat, skruvstäd
v. - sätta i ett skruvstäd
prep. - i stället för
pref. - vice

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
1. 恶习, 坏脾气, 恶行

idioms:

• vice president    副董事长, 副院长, 副行长
• vice ring    卖淫团体
• vice squad    刑警队
• vice versa    反之亦然

2. 恶习, 坏脾气, 恶行

3. 代替

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
1.
n. - 惡習, 壞脾氣, 惡行

idioms:

• vice president    副董事長, 副院長, 副行長
• vice ring    賣淫團體
• vice squad    刑警隊
• vice versa    反之亦然

2.
n. - 惡習, 壞脾氣, 惡行

3.
prep. - 代替

한국어 (Korean)
1.
n. - 악덕, 결함, 성적 부도덕 행위

2.
n. - 바이스

3.
prep. - ~의 대신으로, ~의 대리로서

4.
n. - vice-president (부대통령), vice-admiral (부제독)

5.

idioms:

• vice versa    반대로, 역도 또한 같음

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 悪徳, 不道徳, 悪徳行為, 悪習, 欠点, 万力
prep. - 代わりに, 代理として

idioms:

• vice president    副大統領, 副頭取, 副社長
• vice ring    やくざ連中
• vice squad    風俗犯罪取締班
• vice versa    逆に, 反対に, 逆もまた同じ

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) فساد, رذيله, نقصان, عيب, حقد, ملقط (حرف جر) بدلا من, خلفا ل‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮רשעות, שחיתות, הרגל רע, מידה מגונה, פשיעה, חיסרון, פגם‬
n. - ‮מלחציים‬
prep. - ‮ממלא-מקום‬
n. - ‮(קיצור) סגן הנשיא, סגן-אדמירל, סגן יו"ר‬
vice versa - ‮להיפך‬

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