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ˈsmitting, ppl. a. Now north. dial. and Sc.
[f. smit v.]
Infectious; contagious.
1562Turner Baths 2 If he be sieke in a smitting or infective disease. 1595Duncan App. Etym. (E.D.S.), Contagio, an infection or smitting-sicknes. 1671Skinner Etymol. Ling. Angl. X xx b/1 Smiting, pro Contagious, Infectious, vox agro Linc. usitatissima. 1788W. H. Marshall Yorksh. II. 353 Smitting, infectious; catching, as a disease. 1858–61Ramsay Remin. v. (1870) 118 Gantin' may be smittin'. 1892M. C. F. Morris Yorks. Folk-Talk 73 But she did not think the complaint was smitting. |