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disinfect, v.|dɪsɪnˈfɛkt|
[f. dis- 6 + infect v.: perh. ad. F. désinfecter (1556 in Hatz.-Darm.).]
†1. trans. To rid (a person or place) of an infection or infectious disease. Obs. rare.
1598Florio, Smorbare, to disinfect, to cure, to heale. 1722Lond. Gaz. No. 6025/2 La Canourgue and Banassac were disinfecting, none had newly fallen sick there.
2. To cleanse (a room, clothes, etc.) from infection; to destroy the germs of disease in.
1658R. White tr. Digby's late Disc. 63 They use to make great fires, where there is houshold-stuffe of men that died of the Pestilence, to dis-infect [1664 disinfect] them. Ibid. 64. 1828 Webster, Disinfect, to cleanse from infection; to purify from contagious matter. 1844Pharmac. Jrnl. III. 396 The best mode of disinfecting the clothes of scarlatina patients. 1875Ure's Dict. Arts II. 36 Stenhouse has employed charcoal for disinfecting the air.
absol.1875Ure's Dict. Arts II. 37 Water disinfects partly by preventing effluvia from arising from bodies.
Hence disinˈfected ppl. a., disinˈfecting vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1837Penny Cycl. VII. 109/1 As a disinfecting agent..it [chlorine] is unrivalled. 1853Stonehenge Greyhound iii. (L.) The walls should be well washed with chloride of lime, or..disinfecting fluid. 1890B. A. Whitelegge Hygiene & Public Health xi. 241 One of these rooms should be strictly reserved for infected and the other for disinfected goods. 1894Times 30 Sept. 3/3 A thorough system of disinfection by disinfecting officers. |