To taint with morbid matter or any pestilential or noxious substance or effluvium by which disease is produced; as, to infect a lancet; to infect an apartment.
Knots, by the conflux of meeting sap, Infect the sound pine and divert his grain Tortive and errant from his course of growth.
To infect capital punishment on; to put to death in conformity to a legal sentence; as, to execute a traitor.
To put poison upon or into; to infect with poison; as, to poison an arrow; to poison food or drink.
Defn: To make French; to infect or imbue with the manners or tastes of the French; to Gallicize.
Who was so firm, so constant, that this coil Would not infect his reason?
For as the poison of serpents is deadly unto men, so the words of such persons infect and destroy men.
Above all, as she had said, he saw it; and now he was silent, seeking words that might rid him of pursuit, yet not infect her.
And the power of action is dead in me because the desire of life is dead,--unless you are there to infect me with it.
And pain in her was indeed a color that could infect him.
Thus Bunyan argues, 'One black sheep is quickly espied among five hundred white ones, and one mangey one will soon infect many.
The rust of money in the rich man's purse, unjustly detained from the labourer, will poison and infect his whole estate.
Occasionally it happens that a uredo-form willinfect a species where it ordinarily fails.
In such a case "its uredospore progeny will thenceforth readilyinfect that species.
We know they come here to be frightened and infect one another, and we know they are frightened and do infect one another,” said my sister.
No wonder that the sight of such things as these roused the loving heart of Livingstone to a white heat of indignation, and sent him home to infect his countrymen with his own anger.
God-den to your worships: more of your conversation would infect my brain, being the herdsmen of the beastly plebeians: I will be bold to take my leave of you.
Boils and plagues Plaster you o'er, that you may be abhorr'd Farther than seen, and oneinfect another Against the wind a mile!
Such behaviour was not only exceedingly improper but also most inconsiderate, for the indelicate creature would certainly catch a chill, and then infect the entire party.
If no disease germs are found after two, four or more years, the individual may marry with some measure of assurance that he will not infect his wife or child.
In this way young men become diseased and they infect their wives and transmit serious troubles to their children.
In this condition he is likely to infect his wife.
Did but the bitterness of mine own fortunes Infect my taste, I could paint o'er my cheeks With ruddy-coloured smiles: 'tis not the want Of costly diet or desire of gold Enforces rupture in my wounded breast.
O blessed breeding sun, draw from the earth[2368] Rotten humidity; below thy sister's orbInfect the air!
Breath infect breath, 30 That their society, as their friendship, may Be merely poison!
It is found impossible to infect animals with cholera unless the acidity of the stomach contents be neutralized by an alkali.
First, it was vsuall with him; euery day It wouldinfect his Speech: That if the King Should without issue dye; hee'l carry it so To make the Scepter his.
All borrowing merely recalls to the reader, spectator, or listener some dim recollection of artistic impressions they have received from previous works of art, and does not infect them with feeling which the artist has himself experienced.
If the work does not infect people, no explanation can make it contagious.
Such poetry from poetry cannot infect people, it can only simulate a work of art, and even that only to people of perverted aesthetic taste.
But if the aim of works of art is to infect people with the emotion the artist has experienced, how can one talk about not understanding?
The tears and laughter of a Chinese infect me just as the laughter and tears of a Russian; and it is the same with painting and music and poetry, when it is translated into a language I understand.
To evoke this feeling in the audience by means of art, the author should either make one of the characters express this pity in such a way as to infect every one, or he should describe the girl's feelings correctly.
Do not patients in the different institutions, particularly in the Penitentiary Hospital, often leave before the disease is cured, so that they are liable to infect other persons after their departure?
The calculation that of these diseased women one half only are affected in a manner which renders them liable to infect their paramours is also a liberal one.
Tears carry the germs from the eye to the face, where they are taken up on handkerchiefs, towels, and fingers and infect other eyes.
One child with a cold can infect a whole class or family, thus depriving the class and family of the top of their vitality and efficiency without their consent.
