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infraction|ɪnˈfrækʃən|
[ad. L. infractiōn-em, n. of action f. infringĕre to infringe. Cf. F. infraction (1250 in Hatz.-Darm.).]
1. The action of fracturing or breaking; concr., a breakage or fracture.
1623Cockeram, Infraction, a breaking. 1881Eng. Mechanic No. 874. 366/3 The trough gave way at the sides, but the lead of the bullet was clearly injected into the plane of infraction.
2. The action of breaking or infringing (a bond or obligation); breach, violation, infringement.
1673Temple Let. to Dk. Ormond Wks. 1731 I. 125 The Points of Justice must be grounded upon the Infraction of Treaties. 1733Neal Hist. Purit. II. 558 Evil counsellors which have prevailed with his Majesty to make infractions upon his royal word. 1790Beatson Nav. & Mil. Mem. I. 246 To oppose the Scots insurgents, was no infraction of the capitulation. 1845M. Pattison Ess. (1889) I. 17 Bringing him to..trial..for his flagrant infraction of the canon law. 1875Stubbs Const. Hist. II. xiv. 14 His coronation had been a violent infraction of her right.
†3. Optics. = refraction. Obs.
1635Swan Spec. M. v. §2 (1643) 131 The second [colour of the rainbow] is caused by a more weak infraction. Ibid. 133 Neither was the sunne destitute of sparkling raies to make reflection and infraction.
4. Anat. An infracted condition.
1882W. MacCormac in Quain Dict. Med. 997/2 Very distinct in type from the infractions and extravagant distortions of an osteomalacic skeleton. |