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ting. There was a strict order against coming to those pits, and that was only to prevent infection. De Foe.

Poisoning caused by a virus that originates and develops in the organism itself.

The act of disinfecting; purification from infecting matter.

An antidote against poison or infection; a counterpoison.

To take or receive; esp. to take by sympathy, contagion, infection, or exposure; as, to catch the spirit of an occasion; to catch the measles or smallpox; to catch cold; the house caught fire.

Infections; contagious.

. A clean bill of health, a certificate from the proper authrity that a ship is free from infection. -- Clean breach. See under Breach, n., 4. -- To make a clean breast. See under Breast.

To render clean; to free from fith, pollution, infection, guilt, etc.; to clean. If we walk in the light . . . the blood of Jesus Christ his son cleanseth us from all sin. 1 John i. 7. Can'st thou not minister to a mind diseased, And with some sweet oblivious antidote Cleanse the suffed bosom of that perilous stuff Whi…

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.

That which disinfects; an agent for removing the causes of infection, as chlorine.

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

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.

Infection of the blood with ichorous or putrid substances.

To affect with infectious disease; to communicate infection to; as, infected with the plague. Them that were left alive being infected with this disease. Sir T. North.

Having qualities that may infect; communicable or caused by infection; pestilential; epidemic; as, an infectious fever; infectious clothing; infectious air; infectious vices. Where the infectious pestilence. Shak.

d to cause loathing; exciting disgust; disgusting. The most loathsome and deadly forms of infection. Macaulay. -- Loath"some*ly. adv. -- Loath"some*ness, n.

ted inventor. [Love is] a drop of the true elixir; no mithridate so effectual against the infection of vice. Southey.

That which conveys contagion or infection. [Obs.] Donne.

on or chancre to the first manifestation of symptoms indicative of general constitutional infection. -- Primary union (Surg.), union without suppuration; union by the first intention.