A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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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 Compl. 38/17.
Caliginus fumis and infekkit vaporisIb. 154/20.
Our ... corporal natur ... is baytht vile ande infekkit1573 Sat. P. xxxix. 86.
Infekit water sowllit thame cheik and chin
