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▪ I. infract, a.1 arch.
[ad. L. infract-us, f. in- (in-3) + fractus broken.]
Unbroken; unviolated, unweakened; sound, whole.
1566Gascoigne Supposes Wks. (1587) 5 How straight and infract is this line of life. 1592Sylvester Triumph Faith iii. 23 Martyrs..who..Their faith infract with their own blouds did seal. 1613Heywood Silv. Age iii. i, My charme, Which Gods and diuels gaue vnite consent To be infract. 1901North Amer. Rev. Feb. 314 The illusion renews itself in the great moments, but I wish it could be kept infract in the small.
▪ II. † infract, a.2 Obs.
[ad. L. infract-us, pa. pple. of infringĕre to infringe.]
Broken.
1593Peele Edw. I Wks. (Rtldg.) 393/1 My sweetest love, an this my infract fortune Could never vaunt her sovereignty. 1603H. Crosse Vertues Commw. (1878) 25 Subiect to chance and infract fortune.
▪ III. infract, v.|ɪnˈfrækt|
[f. L. infract-, ppl. stem of infringĕre to infringe.]
trans. To break; to violate, infringe. Chiefly U.S.
1798Washington Lett. Writ. 1893 XIV. 127, I think every nation has a right to establish that form of government, under which it conceives it shall live most happy; provided it infracts no right, or is not dangerous to others. 1808Jefferson Writ. (1830) IV. 107 Rights which we considered as infracted. 1819J. H. Wiffen Aonian Hours (1820) 47 Their social bond through centuries survives, Hers homicide infracts in every age. 1833M. Scott Tom Cringle xix. (1859) 519 He will never venture to infract the neutrality of the waters. 1890Nicolay & Hay Lincoln I. xix. 348 It is due to the Constitution, heretofore palpably infracted. |