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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Quotation dates: 1500-1573
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Infectit, -feckit, -fek(k)it, ppl. adj. [Late ME. enfected (1480, Caxton), e.m.E. infected (1542).] Infected. 1500 Edinb. B. Rec. I. 77.
To be clengearis of all guids … within infectit places 1513 Ib. 134.
That na infectit persoun … convers with clene folkis 1529 Ib. II. 20.
Ane fair … quhair that repair of infeckit personis is habill to repair with infeckit geir 1531 Bell. Boece I. lviii.
He … was geldit that his infeckit blude suld spreid na forthir 1549 Complaynte of Scotland 38/17.
Caliginus fumis and infekkit vaporis 1549 Ib. 154/20.
Our ... corporal natur ... is baytht vile ande infekkit 1573 Satirical Poems xxxix. 86.
Infekit water sowllit thame cheik and chin
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