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or relating to the body; bodily. "Past corporal toil." Shak. Pillories and other corporal infections. Milton. Corporal punishment (law), punishment applied to the body of the offender, including the death penalty, whipping, and imprisonment.

ether dignitary; a palace. Attends the emperor in his royal court. Shak. This our court, infected with their manners, Shows like a riotous inn. Shak.

Despondency. The people, when once infected, lose their relish for happiness [and] saunter about with looks of despondence. Goldsmith.

ding to disseminate, or to become disseminated. The effect of heresy is, like the plague, infectious and disseminative. Jer. Taylor.

Disorder of body; slight illness; distemper. A huge infectious troop Of pale distemperatures and foes to life. Shak.

The mycelium or spawn of this fungus infecting grains of rye and wheat. It is a powerful remedial agent, and also a dangerous poison, and is used as a means of hastening childbirth, and to arrest bleeding.

To infect capital punishment on; to put to death in conformity to a legal sentence; as, to execute a traitor.

The theory which likens the course of certain diseases (esp. infectious diseases) to the process of fermentation, and attributes them to the organized ferments in the body. It does not differ materially from the accepted germ theory (which see).

The presence of filariæ in the blood; infection with filariæ.

g, the quarantine flag of all nations; also carried at a vessel's fore, to denote that an infectious disease is on board.

substance supposed to be capable of absorbing, retaining, and transporting contagious or infectious germs; as, woolen clothes are said to be active fomites.

An aqueous solution of formaldehyde, used as a preservative in museums and as a disinfectant.

To make French; to infect or imbue with the manners or tastes of the French; to Gallicize. Burke.

To apply smoke to; to expose to smoke or vapor; to purify, or free from infection, by the use of smoke or vapors.

The act of fumigating, or applying smoke or vapor, as for disinfection.

(Med.) The theory which attributes contagious and infectious diseases, suppurative lesions, etc., to the agency of germs. The science of bacteriology was developed after this theory had been established.

germs, particularly bacteria, or bacterial germs, which are considered the cause of many infectious diseases. -- n.

ers in wood, or of the strata in stone, slate, etc. Knots, by the conflux of meeting sap, Infect the sound pine and divert his grain Tortive and errant from his course of growth. Shak.

Infection of the blood with ichorous or putrid substances.

To affict with pestilence; to infect, as with plague. [Obs.]