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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Spite  \Spite\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Spited};  p.  pr  &  vb  n. 
  {Spiting}.] 
  1.  To  be  angry  at  to  hate.  [Obs.] 
 
  The  Danes,  then  .  .  .  pagans,  spited  places  of 
  religion.  --Fuller. 
 
  2.  To  treat  maliciously;  to  try  to  injure  or  thwart. 
 
  3.  To  fill  with  spite;  to  offend;  to  vex.  [R.] 
 
  Darius,  spited  at  the  Magi,  endeavored  to  abolish 
  not  only  their  learning,  but  their  language.  --Sir. 
  W.  Temple. 




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