uninfectedadj.

1628 R. Le Grys tr. J. Barclay Argenis ii. 88 What dost thou stay for? till there be nothing vninfected in Sicily. Art thou afraid to disturbe their scarce ripe preparations?

1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. iv. 553 Neither was Plotinus himself..altogether uninfected with this Phantastick Conceit.

a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1897) I. ii. xiii. 535 By this means..all the outed ministers would be..kept from going round the uninfected parts of the kingdom.

1777 W. Robertson Hist. Amer. i. (1778) I. 8 Preserving them a separate people uninfected by idolatry.

1795 V. Knox Spirit of Despotism §29 As influence increases, the jealousy and vigilance of the uninfected part of the community should increase in proportion.

1625 K. Long tr. J. Barclay Argenis ii. xv. 111 Let vs see, quoth hee, whether the Bracelet be vn-infected.

1684 J. Smith Profit & Pleasure United 16 Separating the infected, from the uninfected [cattle].

1744 J. Armstrong Art of preserving Health iii. 63 Serene he bears the peevish eastern blast, And uninfected breathes the mortal South.

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

1890 Retrospect Med. 102 292 The risk of leaving untreated a clot in the immediate neighbourhood of very virulent septic matter in the hope that it may remain uninfected.