单词 | infecting |
释义 | infectingn. The action of infect v., in various senses; infection. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > production of disease > [noun] > infection infectinga1398 corruptionc1430 infection1548 infecture1580 contamination1599 smittling1625 zymosis1842 autoinfection1871 mouth infection1903 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. vii. lxiv. 424 Þe þridde maner lepra comeþ of melancolye infectinge of blood, and hatte alopicia. 1480 Cronicles Eng. (Caxton) ccxxxii. sig. q6 A sikenesse that men called the pokkes slow bothe men & women thurgh hir enfecting. 1508 W. Kennedy Flyting (Chepman & Myllar) in Poems W. Dunbar (1998) I. 216 For fylyng and infecking of the aire. 1613 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1889) IV. 308 For kepinge a skebed horse, to the infectinge of his nebores horses. 1722 D. Defoe Jrnl. Plague Year 232 This infecting and being infected..is evident. 1742 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman June xi. 123 Its causing the Diminution of the Milk, the Rotting away of the Creature's Feet, and the infecting of other sound ones. 1831 Missionary Reg. Jan. 1 Knowledge..has been perverted.., to the infecting of them [sc. the Labouring Classes] deeply with infidel principles. 1899 Philadelphia Med. Jrnl. 12 Aug. 276/2 This..meant delay and the possible infecting of some of the men who were not immunized. 1936 Sr. St. Geraldine Byrne Shakespeare's Use Pronoun of Addr. 163 The infecting of Othello with jealousy. 1991 S. Gibson & R. Gibson Homoeopathy for Everyone (new ed.) xi. 181 Vaccination really started in Britain with Jenner's experiments in preventing smallpox by infecting instead with cowpox. 2002 Carcinogenesis 23 2006/1 Infecting of the lambda phage..was performed. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). infectingadj. That infects something or someone (in various senses); infectious. 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 the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > sound changes > [adjective] > infection infected1859 infecting1883 1539 in J. Stuart Extracts Council Reg. Aberdeen (1844) I. 165 The contagius infeckand pest callit the boiche. 1579 E. Hake Newes out of Powles Churchyarde newly Renued ii. sig. Bviiiv What crewes of greedy griping crowes, what fole infecting rowte. a1592 R. Greene Hist. Orlando Furioso (1594) sig. G2v To sting thee with infecting iealousie. 1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 193 Atropos with a dull Knife coequalizes her [sc. The Hindoo widow's] warme composure with her mates infecting carcasse. 1655 W. Gouge & T. Gouge Learned Comm. Hebrewes (xii. 8) iii. 285 Afflictions are as a rasor..to let out the putrifying infecting matter. 1744 T. Lobb in Lett. relating to Plague (1745) i. vii. 78 Using acid Liquors for purifying the Air of infected Houses, and for preserving the Air of others from an infecting Quality. 1790 J. Foot New Discovered Fact Venereal Poison 30 The foreign fluid received from an infecting subject..infects the subject who receives it. 1803 T. Beddoes Hygëia III. xi. 40 Dr. C...estimates the infecting distance of patients in the plague at a foot or under. 1883 J. P. M'Swiney tr. E. Windisch Compend. Irish Gram. §18 The infecting or attenuating vowel..takes its place beside the vowel of the foregoing syllable. 1919 Musical Q. Jan. 139 Two captivating folk-songs of Anjou (the first of an infecting jollity). 1954 H. W. Florey Lect. Gen. Pathol. xxxiv. 623 An infecting agent such as the organism of tuberculosis. 2002 Guardian 16 Jan. i. 18/4 Most anti-vaccinators argue that the host, ie the body, is as important as the infecting germ. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1398adj.1539 |
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