viced

English

Etymology

From vice +‎ -ed?

Adjective

viced (comparative more viced, superlative most viced)

1. (obsolete) vicious; corrupt
   • c. 1605–1608, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:

     Jove Will o'er some high-viced city hang his poison In the sick air

2. Held clamped by a vice or something with a similar squeezing action.
   • 1940, William Faulkner, The Hamlet:

     There was a board on a tree, bearing a merchant's name above the legend Jefferson 4 mi, drawing up and then past, yet with no semblance of motion, and he moved his feet slightly and braced his inside elbow for the coming jerk and gathered himself feet foremost out of the moving surrey, snapping his arm and shoulder forward against the expected jerk but too late, so that even as his body swung out and free of the wheel his head clipped down into the V of the stanchion which supported the top and teh weight and momentum of his whole body came down on his viced neck.

   • 2010, Craig Silvey, Rhubarb, page 21:

     Ewan works a solid half-hour and the viced scroll looks barely scratched.

   • 2023, W.K.Clyde, Pangerath :WAR, page 656:

     And as the viper tightened its grip to rip past muscle, it twisted its massive jaw back and forth, grinding neck bones while slowly crushing the face and skull, drowning the suppressed screams in blood and bone that poured from his his viced neck, before lifting Peto'stiff body into the air where it quickly coiled its muscular scales and corkscrewed to mince what remained, finally releasing the twisted and bloodied tattoed skin of its dead victim to fall as a sack of oozing meat...with feet.

3. Maintaining a vice-like grip.
   • 1933, Theodore A. Tinsley, Scarlet Ace: Candidate for Death:

     After a while Farino fell and Lacy with him; but the viced fingers never relaxed.

   • 2016, P. C Dettmann, Ernest Zevon:

     She nodded every so often, glanced at Henry, tightened her viced hand around Ernest's, and then listened some more.

   • 2021, Chris Leicester, 180⁰ Chord:

     Gray appeared momentarily relieved and relaxed now, his viced hands on the steering wheel loosening a little.

Verb

viced

1. simple past and past participle of vice

Anagrams

• Vedic, devic