| 释义 |
infected, ppl. a.|ɪnˈfɛktɪd|
[f. as prec. + -ed1.]
1. Tainted with disease or infectious properties.
a. Of a thing or place, the air, etc.; † also formerly of pestilence.
1480Caxton Chron. Eng. ccxxviii, The pestylence was so enfected & so haboundant..that unnethe there were left lyvyng folk to burye hem that were dede. 1542Boorde Dyetary xxvii. (1870) 290 Strawe & rushes..cast out of a howse infectyd. 1549Compl. Scot. vi. 38 Al..caliginus fumis & infekkit vapours..hed bene generit. 1666W. Boghurst Loimogr. (1894) 64 More have received the disease from infected Linen than infected Woollen. 1730Southall Bugs 34 Coming from infected Houses. 1897Hughes Medit. Fever ii. 91 Isolated agricultural villages, never visited by the inhabitants of the infected towns.
b. Of persons or animals, the body or its parts, the mind, etc.
1597A. M. tr. Guillemeau's Fr. Chirurg. 37 b/1 The whole infectede and spoylede parte swelleth. 1600Shakes. A.Y.L. ii. vii. 60, I will..Cleanse the foule bodie of th' infected world, If they will patiently receiue my medicine. 1605― Macb. v. i. 80 Infected mindes To their deafe pillowes will discharge their Secrets. 1693W. Bowles in Dryden's Juvenal v. (1697) 102 All round from him, as from th'infected run. 1722De Foe Plague 43 To remove either his sound or his infected people. 1798W. Blair Soldier's Friend 67. 1828 Scott F.M. Perth xxvii, It is no light thing to be shunned by the worthy as an infected patient.
†2. Evilly affected or contaminated in respect of moral character, opinions, etc. Also of sin. Obs.
1570in Strype Ann. Ref. (1824) I. ii. lvii. 370 The tyranny of such infected members, as..might have imprisoned a number of good subjects. 1590Spenser F.Q. i. x. 25 Inward corruption and infected sin. 1638Div. & Pol. Observ. 26 Mens former flocking to Sermons in Infected places.
†3. Discoloured; stained; tinged. Obs.
1701Addison Let. fr. Italy 23 Hoary Albula's infected tide. 1713Young Last Day iii. 68 Yet still some thin remains of fear and doubt, Th' infected brightness of their joy pollute.
4. Celtic Gram. Altered in sound by the influence of a neighbouring sound: see infect v. 9 b.
[1853Zeuss Gram. Celt. I. 2 Certis collocationis legibus pulsi transeant in alios sonos secundarios, qui dici possunt alterati vel infecti.] 1872Stokes Goidelica 112 Infected g, d, t are dropped, as in bri(gh)te, blie(dh)nec..be(th)ad. Mod. The ai of faidh, and i of fir are instances of infected vowels.
Hence inˈfectedness, the condition of being infected (in quot., with disease).
1882Quain's Med. Dict. (Cent.), The infectedness of the patient is first made known..by..general pyrexia. |