infectibleadj.

1634 Bp. J. Hall Contempl. Hist. New Test. (STC 12640.5) 200 Such was the purity, and perfection of this thy glorious guest, that it was not possibly infectible; nor any way obnoxious to the danger of others sin.

1721 Place's Hypothetical Notion of Plague 23 As the essential Property to be an Infective is Fluidity, so the general Disposition for being infected is the same,..Solids not being infectible but thro' the Mediation of their own Fluids.

1833 J. E. DeKay Sketches Turkey 174 All the contagious or infectible articles of furniture or dress were destroyed by fire.

1850 Lancet 24 Aug. 233/2 If errors or insufficiencies of diet, or certain courses of medicine should be found to form a predisposition to certain infectible disorders.

1888 J. J. G. Wilkinson Oannes ix. 129 A simple and rustic state, not infectible by the direful lusts and persuasions of the surrounding world.

1922 Nation's Health June 356/2 The prevention of the spread of typhoid fever from the infectious patient to the infectible citizen.

1965 Bull. Hygiene 40 1047/1 About 20% of the cells were not infectible, however large the inoculum of virus used.

2007 Evolution 61 2615 A novel host—a host that is not infectible by the wild-type virus.