IPage 193
- English Word Infection Definition The act or process of infecting.
- English Word Infection Definition That which infects, or causes the communicated disease; any effluvium, miasm, or pestilential matter by which an infectious disease is caused.
- English Word Infection Definition The state of being infected; contamination by morbific particles; the result of infecting influence; a prevailing disease; epidemic.
- English Word Infection Definition That which taints or corrupts morally; as, the infection of vicious principles.
- English Word Infection Definition Contamination by illegality, as in cases of contraband goods; implication.
- English Word Infection Definition Sympathetic communication of like qualities or emotions; influence.
- English Word Infectious Definition Having qualities that may infect; communicable or caused by infection; pestilential; epidemic; as, an infectious fever; infectious clothing; infectious air; infectious vices.
- English Word Infectious Definition Corrupting, or tending to corrupt or contaminate; vitiating; demoralizing.
- English Word Infectious Definition Contaminating with illegality; exposing to seizure and forfeiture.
- English Word Infectious Definition Capable of being easily diffused or spread; sympathetic; readily communicated; as, infectious mirth.
- English Word Infectiously Definition In an infectious manner.
- English Word Infectiousness Definition The quality of being infectious.
- English Word Infective Definition Infectious.
- English Word Infecund Definition Unfruitful; not producing young; barren; infertile.
- English Word Infecundity Definition Want of fecundity or fruitfulness; barrenness; sterility; unproductiveness.
- English Word Infecundous Definition Infertile; barren; unprofitable; unproductive.
- English Word Infeeble Definition See Enfeeble.
- English Word Infelicities Definition of Infelicity
- English Word Infelicitous Definition Not felicitous; unhappy; unfortunate; not fortunate or appropriate in application; not well said, expressed, or done; as, an infelicitous condition; an infelicitous remark; an infelicitous description; infelicitous words.
- English Word Infelicity Definition The state or quality of being infelicitous; unhappiness; misery; wretchedness; misfortune; want of suitableness or appropriateness.