i Register
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adj
Containing leaven.
Inducing change, especially a corrupting or vitiating change.
For our Religion where was there a more ignorant, profane, and vitious clergy, learned in nothing but the antiquitie of thir pride, thir covetouſnesſs and ſuperſtition; whoſe unſincere and levenous Doctrine corrupting the people, firſt taught them looſneſs, then bondage