† fectv.
Obsolete. rare.
transitive. = infect v.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > production of disease > make diseased [verb (transitive)] > infect
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?1541 R. Copland Maner to Examyne Lazares in Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens sig. Qij v Yf the father were fecte.
1558 W. Ward tr. G. Ruscelli Secretes Alexis of Piemount i. f. 44 A verye good remedie..to driue it awaye after he isfected [1562 is fected] with it.
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