Definition of Infects

1. Verb. (third-person singular of infect) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Infects

1. infect [v] - See also: infect

Lexicographical Neighbors of Infects

infectious warts
infectiously
infectiousness
infective
infective agent
infective embolism
infective endocarditis
infective jaundice
infective thrombus
infectiveness
infectives
infectivities
infectivity
infector
infectors
infects (current term)
infecund
infecundity
infecundous
infeeble
infeebled
infeebles
infeebling
infeed
infeft
infefted
infefting
infefts
infelicities
infelicitous

Literary usage of Infects

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Philosophical Transactions ... Abridged by Royal Society (Great Britain), John Lowthorp, Henry Jones, Andrew Reid, John Gray, John Eames, John Martyn (1749)
"out of Duft, or fome other Thing, in which it's Eggs were laid. But as in this, fo in the Generation of all other infects, yea, all Animals, ..."

2. The Butterflies of North America by William Henry Edwards (1872)
"... and good for nothing; as the Butterflies.—Pliny ; Phil. Holland's Trans. Many infects there be that breed after another fort; and principally of dew, ..."

3. The History of the Parishes of Whiteford and Holywell by Thomas Pennant (1796)
"... infects are ephemera, or phryganea, ... of infects which, by a wonderful direction of nature, ... out into flies or infects, after that ..."

4. Common-place Book by Robert Southey (1849)
"... by oppositions, factions, to set all at odds and in an uproar ; sometimes he infects one man, and makes him a principal agent; sometimes whole cities, ..."

5. The Annual Registeredited by Edmund Burke edited by Edmund Burke (1800)
"... Ants, and other infects; invented by C. Ta/irt,* at Paris; from the Annals de Chimie. TAKE of black foap, of the befl quality ..."

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