Definition of Infract

1. Verb. Act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises. "Break a promise"


Definition of Infract

1. a. Not broken or fractured; unharmed; whole.

2. v. t. To break; to infringe.

Definition of Infract

1. Verb. (transitive) To infringe, violate or disobey (a rule) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Infract

1. to break a legal rule [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Infract

infraclavicular
infraclavicular fossa
infraclavicular infiltrate
infraclavicular part of brachial plexus
infraclavicular triangle
infraclinoid aneurysm
infraclusion
infracohort
infracohorts
infracortical
infracostal
infracostal line
infracotyloid
infracristal
infract (current term)
infracted
infractible
infracting
infraction
infractions
infractor
infractors
infracts
infracture
infradentale
infradian
infradiaphragmatic
infraduction
infraduodenal fossa

Literary usage of Infract

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

1. A dictionary of the Spanish and English languages, orig. compiled by Neuman by Henry Neuman, Giuseppe Marc' Antonio Baretti (1862)
"Applied to any of the ых days within the eight-day festival. Infringir, va. To infringe, to violate or to break ; to infract ..."

2. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"See NED infract. To infringe on, to break. 1798 I think every nation has a right to establish that form of Government under which it conceives it shall live ..."

3. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1901)
"infract, adj. Unbroken, or unbreakable. One sense of the Latin infractus. ... Had Ia brazen throat, a voice infract, A thousand tongues, and rarest words ..."

4. An Elementary Latin Dictionary by Charlton Thomas Lewis, Hugh Macmaster Kingery (1918)
"... L. : oratio, L. : fama, injured, V. : Latini, broken, V.—Of speech : infract» et amputata toqui, ... bruise on the threshold, H.: infract us ..."

5. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares (1859)
"infract, adj. ... U how straight and infract is this line of lile 1 liad Ia brazen throat, a voice in/Air/, ..."

6. State Papers and Publick Documents of the United States, from the Accession by United States President, United States Dept. of State (1819)
"... viz. that the provisions of the decree in question do not infract any of the rights-of commerce, stipulated by treaty between France and the United ..."

7. Precedents of Indictments and Pleas: Adapted to the Use of Both of the by Francis Wharton (1881)
"That the said AB, late of, etc., heretofore, on, etc., at, etc., and within the jurisdiction of this court, with force and arms, did infract the law of ..."

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