vice

noun

practice or behavior or habit generally considered immoral, depraved, or degrading in the associated society

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Pronunciation: /vaɪs/

Etymology: From Latin vice (“in place of”), ablative form of vicis. Compare French fois (“time”) and Spanish vez (“time, turn”).

in place of; subordinate to; designating a person below another in rank
“vice president”
“vice admiral”

Etymology: From Latin vice (“in place of”), ablative form of vicis. Compare French fois (“time”) and Spanish vez (“time, turn”).

One who acts in place of a superior.
“c. 1850s-1870s, Edward Minister and Son, The Gazette of Fashion and Cutting-Room Companion The health of the Vice was proposed in appropriate language; in replying, Mr. Marriott thanked the company […]”

Etymology: From Latin vice (“in place of”), ablative form of vicis. Compare French fois (“time”) and Spanish vez (“time, turn”).

Instead of; in place of; versus.
“He was gardener and out-door man, vice Upton, resigned.”
“A very small cab-boy, vice Stoopid retired, swung on behind Foker's vehicle; knock-kneed and in the tightest leather breeches.”

Etymology: See vise.

Alternative spelling of vise (“to hold or squeeze with a vice”).
“Camillo. As he had ſeen’t, or beene an Instrument / To vice you to't, that you haue toucht his Queene / Forbiddenly.”
“What could be done—who was it that could do it—to check the storm-flight of these maniacal horses? Could I not seize the reins from the slumbering coachman? […] [F]rom the way in which the coachman's hand was viced between his upper and lower thigh, this was impossible.”