infectedadj.n.

Brit.

/ɪnˈfɛktᵻd/, U.S.

/ᵻnˈfɛktəd/

Forms: see infect v. and -ed suffix¹; also Middle English infeckyd; Scottish pre-1700 infeccit, pre-1700 infecit, pre-1700 infekkit, 1800s infecket.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: infect v., -ed suffix¹.

Etymology: < infect v. + -ed suffix¹. Compare earlier infect adj.¹In sense A. 4 after the corresponding post-classical Latin use of classical Latin infectus infect adj.¹ ( K. Zeuss Grammatica Celtica (1853) I. 2); compare later infect v. 10b.

A. adj.

1. That has been tainted or contaminated with moral corruption or false opinion; depraved; heretical.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > corruption > [adjective]

sickc960

foulOE

unwholec1000

thewlessa1327

corrupt1340

viciousc1340

unwholesomec1374

infecta1387

rustyc1390

unsound?a1400

rottenc1400

rotten-heartedc1405

cankereda1450

infectedc1449

wasted1483

depravate?1520

poisoned1529

deformed1555

poisonous1555

reprobate1557

corrupted1563

prave1564

base-minded1573

tainted1577

Gomorrhean1581

vice-like1589

depraved1593

debauched1598

deboshedc1598

tarish1601

sunk1602

speckled1603

deboist1604

diseased1608

ulcerous1611

vitial1614

debauchc1616

deboise1632

pravous1653

depravea1711

unhealthy1821

scrofulous1842

septic1914

society > morality > moral evil > moral or spiritual degeneration > [adjective] > corrupted or corrupt

foul-stinkingOE

unwholesomec1374

corruptc1380

rotten1395

infecta1398

unsound?a1400

rotten-heartedc1405

infectedc1449

fly-blown1528

reprobate1531

corrupped1533

corrupted1563

poisoned1567

abusive?1585

debauched1598

deboshedc1598

deboist1604

debauchc1616

deboise1632

scrofulous1842

c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 89 (MED) The vnconsideracion of this..hath be a greet cause of the wickidli enfectid scole of heresie among the lay peple.

1559 T. Paynell tr. Erasmus Complaint of Peace sig. Bv I have found none [sc. no monastery] that with ciuill hatred and braulinges was not infected.

1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. x. sig. I8^v Inward corruption, and infected sin.

1638 Div. & Politike Observ. 26 Mens former flocking to Sermons in Infected places.

a1711 T. Ken Psyche v, in Wks. (1721) IV. 294 Paternal God, though it is just To reprobate infected Dust, Should there a Sacrifice be paid, And for curs'd Sin Atonement made.

1759 E. W. Montagu Refl. Antient Republicks v. 281 The most infected, and most corrupt members of the..State.

1846 Macphail's Edinb. Eccl. Jrnl. Apr. 170 If you will only..smite and persecute the infected clergy of both Established Churches, you may bear false witness against them.

1895 Amer. Eccl. Rev. July 31 The infected books..of this last class, the Insana, or the foregoing class, the Non-Sana.

1901 Academy 12 Oct. 337 The infected age of artiness.

1967 B. G. Rogers Novels & Stories Barbey d'Aurevilly viii. 192 Sensitive but infected emotions, leading to the ‘wastes’ of indifference.

2009 B. Rostron Black Petals 90 These infected thoughts followed him everywhere.

†a. Of a disease: = infectious adj. 3a. Cf. infect adj.¹ 1b. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > production of disease > [adjective] > infectious

contagiousc1374

infectivea1398

smitting?c1450

infected1480

infectuous1495

infecting1539

infectious1575

smittle1583

catching1594

contaminous1599

taking1608

communicative1741

malignant1822

contaminative1826

zymotic1842

smittling1845

infectant1855

autoinfective1874

catchy1884

toxo-infectious1907

postinfectious1913

1480 Cronicles Eng. (Caxton) ccxxviii. sig. p8 The pestilence was so enfected, and so habundannt..that vunethes ther were lefte lyuyng folke to bery hem that were dede.

b. Containing or carrying (a source of) infection.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > pollution or defilement > [adjective] > polluted with germs or disease

infecta1382

infected1534

zymotic1881

germy1884

unsterile1892

1534 T. Paynell tr. Moche Profitable Treat. against Pestilence i. sig. A.ii^v The aire is infectyd & charged with infectyd and poyson vapours.

1542 A. Borde Compend. Regyment Helth xxvii. sig. L.iii^v And I haue knowen that whan the strawe & russhes hath ben cast out of a howse infectyd the hogges the whiche dyd lye in it, dyed of y^e pestylence.

1666 W. Boghurst Loimographia (1894) 64 More have received the disease from infected Linen than infected Woollen.

1730 J. Southall Treat. Buggs 34 Coming from infected Houses.

1799 N. Webster Brief Hist. Epidemic & Pestilential Dis. II. 119 There [sc. in Egypt] also infected clothes are never purified.

1839 Southern Lit. Messenger 5–12 Dec. 793 I eschew, as I would an infected district, that mushroom growth of human habitations which has climbed the airy heights of west Boston.

1897 M. L. Hughes Mediterranean Fever ii. 91 Isolated agricultural villages, never visited by the inhabitants of the infected towns.

1903 Albany Med. Ann. 24 630 He states that the possible sources of infection in typhoid fever besides infected water are infected milk, infected ice, infected food, digital transmission, [etc.].

1942 Lancet 7 Mar. 301/2 Infected dust was a major problem in wards housing streptococcal and diphtheritic patients..until its dissemination was prevented.

2002 National Geographic May 23/2 More than a hundred cases of deadly Creutzfeldt-Jakob brain disease in humans who had consumed the infected meat.

c. Of a person, animal, plant, organ, etc.: affected by or exhibiting (an) infection.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > production of disease > [adjective] > infectious > infected

diseasya1450

diseased1467

diseasely1532

infectious1542

infected1562

diseasefula1599

distainted1599

1562 W. Ward tr. G. Ruscelli 3rd Pt. Secretes Alexis of Piemont f. 40^v (heading) Also to staye the flowres of a woman, and for those that haue an infected lyuer and splene.

1598 A. M. tr. J. Guillemeau Frenche Chirurg. 37 b/1 The whole infectede and spoylede parte swelleth.

a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) ii. vii. 60 I will..Cleanse the foule bodie of th'infected world, If they will patiently receiue my medicine.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) v. i. 69 Infected mindes To their deafe pillowes will discharge their Secrets.

1665 Orders Ld. Mayor London in D. Defoe Jrnl. Plague Year (1722) 50 To remove either his sound or his infected People.

1764 J. Grainger Sugar-cane ii. 68 Let the hoe uproot The infected Cane-piece.

1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth iv, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. III. 95 It is no light thing to be shunned by the worthy as an infected patient.

1869 Westm. Rev. Jan. 564 Difficulties are created in the case of true syphilis by the very long incubation-time.., at the end of which time the infected man may (for obvious reasons) be in utter ambiguity as to his infectress.

1910 Practitioner Jan. 125 This may be a muco-periostitis originating in the infected bone.

1949 H. W. C. Vines Green's Man. Pathol. (ed. 17) x. 217 In man the [cholera] vibrio is found in enormous numbers in the rice-water stools associated with the disease, and in the infected mucous membrane.

1986 J. A. Samson Trop. Fruits (ed. 2) vi. 57 Israel is kept free of tristeza virus by tracing and destroying every infected tree.

2012 Independent 2 Mar. 13/1 Concern is growing that African horse sickness, which kills 95 per cent of infected animals, may be brought to Britain by wind-borne insects.

d. Containing, or affected by, a computer virus or other item of malware.

ΚΠ

1984 J. H. Finch & E. G. Dougall Computer Security 145 Upon execution, the infected program decompresses itself and executes normally.

1993 Discover Feb. 48/3 On this variant the payload—the innocuous beep—now sounded only when an infected computer was restarted from the keyboard.

1997 J. Seabrook Deeper iv. 101 ‘I took the infected file off my hard disk and put it on here,’ I said defensively, holding up the floppy.

2010 New Yorker 1 Nov. 51/1 People routinely open e-mails with infected attachments, allowing hackers to ‘enslave’ their computers.

3. Of a liquid, light, etc.: discoloured; stained; tinged.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > soiled condition > [adjective] > stained

staineda1382

imbruedc1450

maculate1490

bestained1559

commaculate1570

maculated1646

infected1701

blurred1708

smitted1862

dabbled1887

1701 J. Addison Let. from Italy 23 Hoary Albula's infected tide.

1713 E. Young Poem on Last Day iii. 54 Yet still some rising Mists of Fear, and Doubt, Th' Infected Brightness of their Joy pollute.

1882 H. H. Bancroft et al. Hist. Central Amer. I. 308 Reptiles as food became a luxury to them; the infected sunlight dried up their blood; despair paralyzed heart and brain.

1970 P. Good Once to Every Man 135 He sat asleep with his raw back against a metal fence post supporting the wire mesh, his skin an infected pink, luminous and drawn so dry and tight over his shoulders that it seemed ready to pop open.

1989 J. Rosenblatt Kissing Goldfish of Siam 2 Infected light fell from an inverted moon-shape.

2004 A. Higgins Bestiary iii. lxxiii. 722 The sections of the fruit that were not black with blight were this vivid orange, an infected colour.

4. Linguistics (esp. Celtic Grammar). Of a sound (of a consonant, vowel, etc.): that has been altered by the influence of a neighbouring sound. Cf. infect v. 10b. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > sound changes > [adjective] > infection

infected1859

infecting1883

1859 Ulster Jrnl. Archæol. 7 91 This infected form of muir came from the ancient mori.

1872 W. Stokes Goidelica (ed. 2) 112 Infected g, d, t are dropped, as in bri(gh)te, blie(dh)nec..be(th)ad.

1909 J. Strachan Introd. Early Welsh 37 Sometimes the infected vowel spreads analogically.

1942 Stud. in Linguistics Aug. 8 The infected form of a varies according to the sort of word it is in.

B. n.

With the and plural agreement. Infected individuals as a group or class. Cf. infect n.

ΚΠ

1606 Bp. W. Barlow One of Foure Serm. Hampton Court sig. B2 To strengthen the weake, to heale the infected, to splint the spreined.

1684 J. Smith Profit & Pleasure United 16 You must, without delay, divide them [sc. cattle] to different Pastures, in diversity of Air, separating the infected, from the uninfected.

1720 R. Mead Disc. Plague 32 The Methods taken by the Publick..have always had the Appearance of a severe Discipline, and even Punishment, rather than of a Compassionate Care; which must naturally make the Infected conceal the Disease as long as was possible.

1798 W. Blair Soldier's Friend (Dublin ed.) 98 This disease [sc. dysentery] is contagious: when it appears, therefore, the infected should, as soon as possible, be separated from the healthy.

1813 J. Thomson Lect. Inflammation 485 If pains be taken to prevent intercourse between the infected and uninfected.

1857 Cultivator Sept. 285/1 If the infected are burned, and the stumps carefully secured with wax.., the health of the trees will not be injured.

1952 J. Leyda in Portable Melville 7 By the time he left Tahiti and Eimeo, Melville's allegiance was firmly with the infected as against the infecters.

2007 Wired May 120/2 He plans to build a taxonomy of..‘viral chatter’: the regular transmission of viruses from wild animals to humans, often without any further spread among humans or consequences for the infected.

Derivatives

inˈfectedness n. the condition of being infected; the degree to which an individual or population is infected.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > production of disease > [noun] > infection > infected quality

infectedness1851

1851 Knickerbocker June 508 For as far as real infection, infectedness, went, the banker was in as extreme a situation as the fisherman.

1911 Nature 5 Oct. 466/1 Infectedness is not the same thing as sickness.

1990 Agric., Ecosystems & Environm. 29 141 There is no evidence that a good quantitative relationship exists between root morphology and infectedness.

2003 Communications Agric. & Appl. Biol. Sci. 68 673 The infectedness of some species [of wheat] came near to 50-90% by this time.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	infected
释义	infectedadj.n. Brit. /ɪnˈfɛktᵻd/, U.S. /ᵻnˈfɛktəd/ Forms: see infect v. and -ed suffix¹; also Middle English infeckyd; Scottish pre-1700 infeccit, pre-1700 infecit, pre-1700 infekkit, 1800s infecket. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: infect v., -ed suffix¹. Etymology: < infect v. + -ed suffix¹. Compare earlier infect adj.¹In sense A. 4 after the corresponding post-classical Latin use of classical Latin infectus infect adj.¹ ( K. Zeuss Grammatica Celtica (1853) I. 2); compare later infect v. 10b. A. adj. 1. That has been tainted or contaminated with moral corruption or false opinion; depraved; heretical. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > corruption > [adjective] sickc960 foulOE unwholec1000 thewlessa1327 corrupt1340 viciousc1340 unwholesomec1374 infecta1387 rustyc1390 unsound?a1400 rottenc1400 rotten-heartedc1405 cankereda1450 infectedc1449 wasted1483 depravate?1520 poisoned1529 deformed1555 poisonous1555 reprobate1557 corrupted1563 prave1564 base-minded1573 tainted1577 Gomorrhean1581 vice-like1589 depraved1593 debauched1598 deboshedc1598 tarish1601 sunk1602 speckled1603 deboist1604 diseased1608 ulcerous1611 vitial1614 debauchc1616 deboise1632 pravous1653 depravea1711 unhealthy1821 scrofulous1842 septic1914 society > morality > moral evil > moral or spiritual degeneration > [adjective] > corrupted or corrupt foul-stinkingOE unwholesomec1374 corruptc1380 rotten1395 infecta1398 unsound?a1400 rotten-heartedc1405 infectedc1449 fly-blown1528 reprobate1531 corrupped1533 corrupted1563 poisoned1567 abusive?1585 debauched1598 deboshedc1598 deboist1604 debauchc1616 deboise1632 scrofulous1842 c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 89 (MED) The vnconsideracion of this..hath be a greet cause of the wickidli enfectid scole of heresie among the lay peple. 1559 T. Paynell tr. Erasmus Complaint of Peace sig. Bv I have found none [sc. no monastery] that with ciuill hatred and braulinges was not infected. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. x. sig. I8^v Inward corruption, and infected sin. 1638 Div. & Politike Observ. 26 Mens former flocking to Sermons in Infected places. a1711 T. Ken Psyche v, in Wks. (1721) IV. 294 Paternal God, though it is just To reprobate infected Dust, Should there a Sacrifice be paid, And for curs'd Sin Atonement made. 1759 E. W. Montagu Refl. Antient Republicks v. 281 The most infected, and most corrupt members of the..State. 1846 Macphail's Edinb. Eccl. Jrnl. Apr. 170 If you will only..smite and persecute the infected clergy of both Established Churches, you may bear false witness against them. 1895 Amer. Eccl. Rev. July 31 The infected books..of this last class, the Insana, or the foregoing class, the Non-Sana. 1901 Academy 12 Oct. 337 The infected age of artiness. 1967 B. G. Rogers Novels & Stories Barbey d'Aurevilly viii. 192 Sensitive but infected emotions, leading to the ‘wastes’ of indifference. 2009 B. Rostron Black Petals 90 These infected thoughts followed him everywhere. 2. †a. Of a disease: = infectious adj. 3a. Cf. infect adj.¹ 1b. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > production of disease > [adjective] > infectious contagiousc1374 infectivea1398 smitting?c1450 infected1480 infectuous1495 infecting1539 infectious1575 smittle1583 catching1594 contaminous1599 taking1608 communicative1741 malignant1822 contaminative1826 zymotic1842 smittling1845 infectant1855 autoinfective1874 catchy1884 toxo-infectious1907 postinfectious1913 1480 Cronicles Eng. (Caxton) ccxxviii. sig. p8 The pestilence was so enfected, and so habundannt..that vunethes ther were lefte lyuyng folke to bery hem that were dede. b. Containing or carrying (a source of) infection. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > pollution or defilement > [adjective] > polluted with germs or disease infecta1382 infected1534 zymotic1881 germy1884 unsterile1892 1534 T. Paynell tr. Moche Profitable Treat. against Pestilence i. sig. A.ii^v The aire is infectyd & charged with infectyd and poyson vapours. 1542 A. Borde Compend. Regyment Helth xxvii. sig. L.iii^v And I haue knowen that whan the strawe & russhes hath ben cast out of a howse infectyd the hogges the whiche dyd lye in it, dyed of y^e pestylence. 1666 W. Boghurst Loimographia (1894) 64 More have received the disease from infected Linen than infected Woollen. 1730 J. Southall Treat. Buggs 34 Coming from infected Houses. 1799 N. Webster Brief Hist. Epidemic & Pestilential Dis. II. 119 There [sc. in Egypt] also infected clothes are never purified. 1839 Southern Lit. Messenger 5–12 Dec. 793 I eschew, as I would an infected district, that mushroom growth of human habitations which has climbed the airy heights of west Boston. 1897 M. L. Hughes Mediterranean Fever ii. 91 Isolated agricultural villages, never visited by the inhabitants of the infected towns. 1903 Albany Med. Ann. 24 630 He states that the possible sources of infection in typhoid fever besides infected water are infected milk, infected ice, infected food, digital transmission, [etc.]. 1942 Lancet 7 Mar. 301/2 Infected dust was a major problem in wards housing streptococcal and diphtheritic patients..until its dissemination was prevented. 2002 National Geographic May 23/2 More than a hundred cases of deadly Creutzfeldt-Jakob brain disease in humans who had consumed the infected meat. c. Of a person, animal, plant, organ, etc.: affected by or exhibiting (an) infection. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > production of disease > [adjective] > infectious > infected diseasya1450 diseased1467 diseasely1532 infectious1542 infected1562 diseasefula1599 distainted1599 1562 W. Ward tr. G. Ruscelli 3rd Pt. Secretes Alexis of Piemont f. 40^v (heading) Also to staye the flowres of a woman, and for those that haue an infected lyuer and splene. 1598 A. M. tr. J. Guillemeau Frenche Chirurg. 37 b/1 The whole infectede and spoylede parte swelleth. a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) ii. vii. 60 I will..Cleanse the foule bodie of th'infected world, If they will patiently receiue my medicine. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) v. i. 69 Infected mindes To their deafe pillowes will discharge their Secrets. View more context for this quotation 1665 Orders Ld. Mayor London in D. Defoe Jrnl. Plague Year (1722) 50 To remove either his sound or his infected People. 1764 J. Grainger Sugar-cane ii. 68 Let the hoe uproot The infected Cane-piece. 1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth iv, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. III. 95 It is no light thing to be shunned by the worthy as an infected patient. 1869 Westm. Rev. Jan. 564 Difficulties are created in the case of true syphilis by the very long incubation-time.., at the end of which time the infected man may (for obvious reasons) be in utter ambiguity as to his infectress. 1910 Practitioner Jan. 125 This may be a muco-periostitis originating in the infected bone. 1949 H. W. C. Vines Green's Man. Pathol. (ed. 17) x. 217 In man the [cholera] vibrio is found in enormous numbers in the rice-water stools associated with the disease, and in the infected mucous membrane. 1986 J. A. Samson Trop. Fruits (ed. 2) vi. 57 Israel is kept free of tristeza virus by tracing and destroying every infected tree. 2012 Independent 2 Mar. 13/1 Concern is growing that African horse sickness, which kills 95 per cent of infected animals, may be brought to Britain by wind-borne insects. d. Containing, or affected by, a computer virus or other item of malware. ΚΠ 1984 J. H. Finch & E. G. Dougall Computer Security 145 Upon execution, the infected program decompresses itself and executes normally. 1993 Discover Feb. 48/3 On this variant the payload—the innocuous beep—now sounded only when an infected computer was restarted from the keyboard. 1997 J. Seabrook Deeper iv. 101 ‘I took the infected file off my hard disk and put it on here,’ I said defensively, holding up the floppy. 2010 New Yorker 1 Nov. 51/1 People routinely open e-mails with infected attachments, allowing hackers to ‘enslave’ their computers. 3. Of a liquid, light, etc.: discoloured; stained; tinged. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > soiled condition > [adjective] > stained staineda1382 imbruedc1450 maculate1490 bestained1559 commaculate1570 maculated1646 infected1701 blurred1708 smitted1862 dabbled1887 1701 J. Addison Let. from Italy 23 Hoary Albula's infected tide. 1713 E. Young Poem on Last Day iii. 54 Yet still some rising Mists of Fear, and Doubt, Th' Infected Brightness of their Joy pollute. 1882 H. H. Bancroft et al. Hist. Central Amer. I. 308 Reptiles as food became a luxury to them; the infected sunlight dried up their blood; despair paralyzed heart and brain. 1970 P. Good Once to Every Man 135 He sat asleep with his raw back against a metal fence post supporting the wire mesh, his skin an infected pink, luminous and drawn so dry and tight over his shoulders that it seemed ready to pop open. 1989 J. Rosenblatt Kissing Goldfish of Siam 2 Infected light fell from an inverted moon-shape. 2004 A. Higgins Bestiary iii. lxxiii. 722 The sections of the fruit that were not black with blight were this vivid orange, an infected colour. 4. Linguistics (esp. Celtic Grammar). Of a sound (of a consonant, vowel, etc.): that has been altered by the influence of a neighbouring sound. Cf. infect v. 10b. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > sound changes > [adjective] > infection infected1859 infecting1883 1859 Ulster Jrnl. Archæol. 7 91 This infected form of muir came from the ancient mori. 1872 W. Stokes Goidelica (ed. 2) 112 Infected g, d, t are dropped, as in bri(gh)te, blie(dh)nec..be(th)ad. 1909 J. Strachan Introd. Early Welsh 37 Sometimes the infected vowel spreads analogically. 1942 Stud. in Linguistics Aug. 8 The infected form of a varies according to the sort of word it is in. B. n. With the and plural agreement. Infected individuals as a group or class. Cf. infect n. ΚΠ 1606 Bp. W. Barlow One of Foure Serm. Hampton Court sig. B2 To strengthen the weake, to heale the infected, to splint the spreined. 1684 J. Smith Profit & Pleasure United 16 You must, without delay, divide them [sc. cattle] to different Pastures, in diversity of Air, separating the infected, from the uninfected. 1720 R. Mead Disc. Plague 32 The Methods taken by the Publick..have always had the Appearance of a severe Discipline, and even Punishment, rather than of a Compassionate Care; which must naturally make the Infected conceal the Disease as long as was possible. 1798 W. Blair Soldier's Friend (Dublin ed.) 98 This disease [sc. dysentery] is contagious: when it appears, therefore, the infected should, as soon as possible, be separated from the healthy. 1813 J. Thomson Lect. Inflammation 485 If pains be taken to prevent intercourse between the infected and uninfected. 1857 Cultivator Sept. 285/1 If the infected are burned, and the stumps carefully secured with wax.., the health of the trees will not be injured. 1952 J. Leyda in Portable Melville 7 By the time he left Tahiti and Eimeo, Melville's allegiance was firmly with the infected as against the infecters. 2007 Wired May 120/2 He plans to build a taxonomy of..‘viral chatter’: the regular transmission of viruses from wild animals to humans, often without any further spread among humans or consequences for the infected. Derivatives inˈfectedness n. the condition of being infected; the degree to which an individual or population is infected. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > production of disease > [noun] > infection > infected quality infectedness1851 1851 Knickerbocker June 508 For as far as real infection, infectedness, went, the banker was in as extreme a situation as the fisherman. 1911 Nature 5 Oct. 466/1 Infectedness is not the same thing as sickness. 1990 Agric., Ecosystems & Environm. 29 141 There is no evidence that a good quantitative relationship exists between root morphology and infectedness. 2003 Communications Agric. & Appl. Biol. Sci. 68 673 The infectedness of some species [of wheat] came near to 50-90% by this time. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.c1449
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