Infect /(?)/

1. Infected. Cf. Enfect. [Obs.]

imp. & p. p. Infected; p. pr. & vb. n. Infecting

1. To taint with morbid matter or any pestilential or noxious substance or effluvium by which disease is produced; as, to infect a lancet; to infect an apartment.
2. To affect with infectious disease; to communicate infection to; as, infected with the plague.

   Them that were left alive being infected with this disease.

3. To communicate to or affect with, as qualities or emotions, esp. bad qualities; to corrupt; to contaminate; to taint by the communication of anything noxious or pernicious.

   Infected Ston's daughters with like heat.

4. To contaminate with illegality or to expose to penalty. (Law)