infantn.¹adj.

/ˈɪnfənt/

Forms: Middle English enfaunt, infaunt, 1500s enfant, infante, (1600s inphant), 1500s– infant.

Etymology: < Old French enfant, -aunt (French enfant , Provençal enfan , Spanish infante , Portuguese infante , Italian infante ) child < Latin infāns , infānt-em child, noun use of infāns unable to speak, < in- (in- prefix⁴) + fāns , present participle of fārī to speak. Aphetized faunt n.

a. A child during the earliest period of life (or still unborn); now most usually applied to a child in arms, a babe; but often extended to include any child under seven years of age (cf. infant class, infant-school n.); in early use (esp. when transl. Latin infāns, or French enfant) used in the wider sense of ‘child’, and thus passing into the legal sense 2.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > person > baby or infant > [noun]

childOE

baban?c1225

fauntekin1377

infant1382

babea1393

fauntelet1393

babyc1400

lakinc1440

mop1440

chrisomer1574

tenderling1587

chrisom1596

childling1648

flosculet1648

bratling1652

lullaby-cheat1665

strangera1674

child (also infant, baby) in armsa1675

hoppet1695

tot1725

bambino1761

weanie1786

tiny1797

dot1800

trudgeon1814

toddle1825

toddles1828

yearnling1829

dab1833

toddler1837

baba1841

arrival1846

teeny-tiny1849

toddlekins1852

mite1853

trot1854

babelet1856

nestler1866

spoon-child1868

bubby1885

chavvy1886

bub1889

kiddy1889

toddleskin1890

newborn1893

kidlet1899

kidling1899

bubba1906

bundle of joy1924

liddly1929

mammet1932

snork1941

kiddywink1957

sproglet1987

1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) 1 John ii. 14 I wrijte to ȝou, infauntis [gloss or ȝonge children], for ȝe han knowe the fadir.

c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Zech. viii. 5 And streetis of the citee shuln be fulfillid with infauntis [a1425 L.V. ȝonge children] and maydens, pleyinge in the streetis of it.

c1440 Gesta Romanorum (Harl.) i. xlviii. 209 Gothe swyftly..to the house of the forster,..and takithe of him the litle Infaunt, that his wyf this nyght chylded.

a1475 Bk. Curtasye (Sloane 1986) l. 141 in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 303 Yf that þou be a ȝong enfaunt, And thenke þo scoles for to haunt.

1582 Bible (Rheims) Luke xviii. 15 They brought vnto him infants also, that he might touche them.

1594 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. II. 397 The burthen..hath sense & feeling about the sixe and thirtieth day, and from that time forward it is called an infant. But as yet it is voyde of motion.

a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) ii. vii. 143 The Infant, Mewling, and puking in the Nurses armes.

1673 J. Milton Sonnets xv, in Poems (new ed.) 59 The bloody Piemontese that roll'd Mother with Infant down the Rocks.

1710 T. Parnell Hermit 151 The closed cradle where an infant slept.

1806 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. VI. 449 It was held, that a devise to an infant in ventre matris,..was good; which begun with an allowance for the birth of a posthumous child.

1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam liii. 77 An infant crying in the night: An infant crying for the light: And with no language but a cry.

b. figurative. One who is a ‘child’, or very young beginner, in some department.

ΘΚΠ

society > education > learning > learner > [noun] > novice or beginner

younglingOE

new-comeOE

novice1340

ginner?c1400

beginner1470

apprentice1489

prentice1489

infant1526

freshmana1557

intrant1560

enterer1565

puny?1570

weakling1575

new comeling1587

novist1587

incipient1589

puisne1592

abecedary1596

neophyte1600

abecedarian1603

bachelor1604

novelist?1608

alphabetary1611

breeching boy1611

tiro1611

alphabetarian1614

principiant1619

unexperienced1622

velvet head1631

undergraduatea1659

young stager1664

greenhorn1672

battledore boy1693

youngster1706

tironist1716

novitiatea1734

recruit1749

griffin1793

initiate1811

Johnny Newcome1815

Johnny Raw1823

griff1829

plebe1833

Johnny-come-lately1839

new chum1851

blanc-bec1853

fledgling1856

rookie1868

elementarian1876

tenderfoot1881

shorthorn1888

new kid1894

cheechako1897

ring-neck1898

Johnny1901

rook1902

fresh meat1908

malihini1914

initiand1915

stooge1930

intakea1943

cub1966

1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection i. sig. Dv^v They were leed by Moyses, as yonge infantes and tender babes in feyth.

1594 H. Plat Diuerse Sorts of Soyle 9 in Jewell House Whereby all those that be the true infantes of Art, may receive a full light into Nature.

1899 N. Brit. Daily Mail 16 Feb. 5 As every political infant cannot fail to recognise, the whole question was..unconnected with party politics.

c. transferred. A thing newly come into existence, or in its earliest stage.

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the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > beginning > [noun] > the first part or beginning > the earliest stage(s) > something in earliest stage

bud1579

embryon1581

infantc1595

embryo1608

rudiment1625

fetus1632

c1595 Countess of Pembroke Psalme xcvi. 34 in Coll. Wks. (1998) II. 145 Leauy Infants of the wood.

1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet i. iii. 39 The canker gaules the infants of the spring.

1608 Dispute Question of Kneeling 139 Reputed an infant and a novelty, rather then an antiquity.

1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer (1891) 215 The..questioning of old Paul..seemed adverse to the Utopian infant.

2. A person under (legal) age; a minor. In common law, one who has not completed his or her twenty-first year; in the case of a ruler, one who has not reached the age at which he becomes constitutionally capable of exercising sovereignty.

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the world > people > person > child > [noun] > minor

pupilc1384

ward1433

minor1526

infanta1535

jail-bait1934

1376 Rolls of Parl. II. 342/2 La Fyn ou Note se leva tan qe come l'Enfant estoit deinz age.]

a1535 T. More Hist. Richard III in Wks. (1557) 50/2 Intend I to kepe him sins..law serueth y^e gardain to kepe the infant.

1601 F. Tate Househ. Ord. Edward II (1876) §25. 17 The infantes which happen to be the kinges wardes, shal have wages, and liverees, and al other necessaries, according to their estate.

1603 G. Owen Descr. Penbrokshire (1890) 19 [He] was governed by tutours beinge an inphant.

1624 E. Coke 1st Pt. Inst. Lawes Eng. 2 b An infant or minor (whom we call any that is under the age of 21 yeares).

1642 tr. J. Perkins Profitable Bk. x. §684. 295 An enfant who is a feoffee shall give notice; and an enfant who is Lord shall take notice.

1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. 460 The privileges and disabilities of an infant, or one under age and subject to guardianship.

1783 W. Thomson in R. Watson & W. Thomson Hist. Reign Philip III v. 322 Mary de Medicis sole regent of France during the minority of her son, an infant only in the ninth year of his age.

1858 Ld. St. Leonards Handy Bk. Prop. Law xiii. 81 Although..until a recent period an infant might have appointed a guardian to his children by deed or will, yet it seems that he can no longer do so by will.

figurative.1692 J. Washington tr. J. Milton Def. People Eng. viii. 182 The Judges..Swear, That they will do nothing Judicially, but according to Law, tho the King by Word, or Mandate, or Letters under his own Seal, should command the contrary. Hence it is that the King is often said in our Law to be an Infant; and to possess his Rights and Dignities, as a Child or a Ward does his.

†3. A youth of noble or gentle birth. Cf. infant n.², child n. 3. Obsolete.

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society > society and the community > social class > nobility > [noun] > noble person or man > noble child

childOE

infant1590

1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. viii. sig. V2^v To whom the Infant thus, Fayre Sir, what need Good turnes be counted, as a seruile bond?

1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene vi. viii. sig. Ff6^v The Infant [Arthur] hearkned wisely to her tale.

1600 E. Fairfax tr. T. Tasso Godfrey of Bulloigne xvi. xxxiv. 287 The noble infant [Rinaldo] stood a space Confused, speechlesse.

4. Humorously applied to various productions of exceptional size, strength, etc. (See quots.)

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > largeness > [noun] > an exceptionally large thing of its kind

swinger1599

rapper1653

thumper1660

whisker1668

spanker1751

slapper1781

whopper1785

skelper1790

smasher1794

pelter1811

swapper1818

jumbo1823

sneezer1823

whacker1825

whanger1825

infant1832

bulger1835

three-decker1835

bouncer1842

snorter1859

whalera1860

plonker1862

bruiser1868

snapper1874

plumper1881

boomer1885

heavy1897

sollicker1898

sanakatowzer1903

Moby Dicka1974

stonker1987

1832 Brighton Gaz. in Blew Brighton & its Coaches (1893) 187 Mr. Walter Hancock's steam-carriage, the ‘Infant’, was on the way from London to this place on an experimental trip.

1874 Graphic 5 Dec. 538/1 The heaviest gun now actually in position, commonly called the Woolwich Infant,..weighs 35 tons.

1888 Pall Mall Gaz. 6 June 2/2 The speciality of Woolwich is its big guns, its now famous and historic ‘infants’.

Compounds

C1. attributive or adj. (When appositive or attributive, often equivalent to an adjective= infantile adj., infantine adj.)

a. appositive. That is an infant or like an infant, as infant angel, infant God, infant heir, infant king, infant martyr, infant poor, infant prodigy, infant warrior, etc.

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the world > people > person > baby or infant > [adjective]

infant1595

1595 S. Daniel First Fowre Bks. Ciuile Warres i. xxxiv. sig. C2^v Kingdomes euer suffer this distresse, For one or manie guide the infant king.

1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 iii. ii. 113 This Hotspur Mars in swathling cloaths, This infant warrier.

1645 J. Milton On Christ's Nativity: Hymn iii, in Poems 2 A present to the Infant God.

1679 J. Dryden & N. Lee Oedipus iv. 57 All the Riches That Empire could bestow..Upon its Infant Heir.

1692 J. Washington tr. J. Milton Def. People Eng. xii. 234 A poor indigent King, surrounded with so many Infant-Priests and Doctors.

a1704 T. Brown Oration in Praise Drunkenness in Wks. (1707) I. i. 54 Cheeks, like those the Painters give to Infant Angels.

1720 R. Welton tr. T. Alvares de Andrade Sufferings Son of God I. ix. 231 Thou wouldst not suffer those Infant-Martyrs..to endure so much as Thy Self.

1831 D. E. Williams Life Sir T. Lawrence I. 51 This infant prodigy had excited so much attention that his likeness was taken, and engraved by Sherwin.

1872 J. A. H. Murray in Complaynt Scotl. Introd. p. viii Of the three centuries of Scottish history [1300–1600]..nearly a century and a half were occupied by the reigns of infant sovereigns.

1874 F. W. Farrar Life Christ ii The recognition of the Infant Saviour by Simeon and Anna.

a1900 Mod. The presentation of the infant Jesus in the temple.

1924 R. M. Ogden tr. K. Koffka Growth of Mind ii. §4. 49 Infant-prodigies who fail to live up to their early promise.

1939 F. Pratt Secret & Urgent i. 25 He was Jean François Champollion, an infant prodigy.

b. appositive (or adj.). In its earliest stage, newly existing, ungrown, undeveloped, nascent, incipient, as infant blossom, infant civilization, infant code, infant colony, infant commerce, infant community, infant convert, infant fruit, infant industry (see quot. 1914), infant letters, infant navy, infant sorrow, infant spring, infant world, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > beginning > [adjective] > in early stages

buddinga1586

infant1594

embryon1613

embryous1628

inchoateda1631

inchoativea1631

crepusculous1646

rudimentary1648

rudimental1658

embryo1659

incipient1669

crepuscular1679

dawninga1700

initiant1740

germing1749

embryotic1761

germinal1804

embryonic1825

embryonary1833

inchoanta1876

adawn1881

1594 W. Shakespeare Lucrece sig. H3 Old woes, not infant sorrowes beare them milde.

1672 N. Grew Anat. Veg. vi. 150 Upon observation of a young and Infant-Apple.

1707 J. Archdale New Descr. Carolina 23 Vast expence upon such an Infant Colony.

1728 A. Pope Dunciad iii. 88 The soil that arts and infant letters bore.

1779 F. Hervey et al. Naval Hist. Great Brit. II. 144 Of all the infant settlements in America, New-England alone..acknowledged the authority of the commonwealth.

1785 W. Cowper Tirocinium in Task 43 Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees.

1796 E. Burke Two Lett. Peace Regicide Directory France i. 81 The ruin of commerce and the almost total extinction of an infant credit.

1820 J. Keats Hyperion: a Fragm. i, in Lamia & Other Poems 146 She was a Goddess of the infant world.

1861 M. Pattison in Westm. Rev. Apr. 412 The unequal contest..of England's infant navy against the..supremacy of the Hanseatic Confederacy.

1870 Congress. Globe App. 29 Mar. 240/3 But, argue our defenders of monopoly, let us protect our infant industries, and when they have grown to manhood..they will need no further protection.

1906 Daily Chron. 17 Oct. 6/5 The argument for Protection there is not at all the infant-industry argument.

1914 A. C. McLaughlin & A. B. Hart Cycl. Amer. Govt. II. 176 Infant Industry. This term is applied to the need of protecting new industries in order to give them opportunity to compete with older foreign establishments.

c. attributive or adj. Of or belonging to an infant or infants, proper to or intended for an infant or infants; childlike; childish; infantile, as infant bands, infant blood, infant breath, infant class, infant cradle, infant eye, infant gaud, infant state, infant softness, infant weakness, infant welfare, infant years, etc. Also infant-school n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > person > baby or infant > [adjective] > relating to or characteristic of

babish1532

infantc1595

infantical1601

infantine1603

infantlya1640

infantile1696

nursling1793

c1595 Countess of Pembroke Psalme lxxi. 52 in Coll. Wks. (1998) II. 88 By thee from infant Cradle Taught.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) Epil. 9 Henry the Sixt, in Infant Bands crown'd King.

1651–3 Bp. J. Taylor Serm. for Year (1678) 282 Though it be a shame to us to need such allectives and infant-gauds.

1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd ii. 78 The Murd'rous King..who sought his life, and missing fill'd With Infant blood the streets of Bethlehem.

a1711 T. Ken Hymns for Festivals in Wks. (1721) I. 386 You in their Infant-age, To tender them engage.

1720 R. Welton tr. T. Alvares de Andrade Sufferings Son of God I. viii. 190 Even thro' Thy Infant-State, I behold Thy Majesty.

1720 R. Welton tr. T. Alvares de Andrade Sufferings Son of God I. iv. 76 That Infant-Weakness which Thou took'st upon Thee!

1792 S. Rogers Pleasures Mem. ii. 392 The joys and sorrows of our infant-years.

1918 79th Ann. Rep. Registrar-General 1916 (Cd. 8869) 35 Infant welfare organisations might well devote special attention to the first days of the life of illegitimate children.

1922 Encycl. Brit. XXX. 650/2 Infant Welfare Centres.—The first task has been to coördinate the work at the Infant Centre and the visitation of the mothers in their own homes.

1939 M. Spring Rice Working-class Wives p. vii Better methods of mothercraft through the influence of the Infant Welfare Centre.

1962 Guardian 9 Mar. 8/2 The orders might contain..infant welfare foods (distributed as a voluntary service).

C2. infant-queller; infant-killing, infant-sprinkling; infant-feeding adj.; also infant-like adj. and adv.

ΚΠ

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Infanticide, child-murthering, infant-killing.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) ii. i. 36 Your abilities are to Infant-like, for dooing much alone.

a1641 R. Montagu Acts & Monuments (1642) 386 Herod..the infant queller.

1656 R. Sanderson 20 Serm. Pref. sig. (a)^v Where are your Lay-Presbyters, your Classes, &c. to be found in Scripture? Where your Steeple-houses?.. Your Infant-sprinklings?

1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. v. 689 Produced, not in a Mature and Adult, but an Infant-like, Weak and Tender State.

1897 Westm. Gaz. 19 Jan. 12/2 The infant-feeding competition represents the..ceaseless intrigues in Court circles.

C3.

infant baptism n. the baptism of infants, pædobaptism.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > worship > sacrament > baptism > kinds of baptism > child > [noun]

paedobaptism1640

infant baptism1674

1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge 51 A blind man, who had been so from his Infant-baptism.

1680 W. Allen Perswasive to Peace & Unity (ed. 2) 49 Churches Founded in Infant-Baptism, are not to be held Communion with.

infant mistress n. a woman teacher of infants at an elementary school.

ΘΚΠ

society > education > teaching > teacher > schoolteacher or schoolmaster > [noun] > elementary teacher

schooldame1577

abecedary1596

dame1641

kindergarten teacher1863

kindergartener1868

infant mistress1921

1921 N.Z. Educ. Gaz. 1 Nov. 12/2 (advt.) Infant-mistress—South Wellington (Grade VII g): £310–£320.

a1930 D. H. Lawrence Phoenix II (1968) 18 Last week the infant mistress did not come up, so I was alone.

1963 B. Pearson Coal Flat iii. 48 ‘The first infant mistress's job that's going,’ she thought.

infant mortality n. the death of infants, spec. of those less than a year old.

ΚΠ

1877 W. R. Alger Life E. Forrest I. 147 The rate of infant mortality may be reduced to one per cent of its present murderous average.

1939 M. Spring Rice Working-class Wives p. vii The high rates of infant mortality..in the early years of the present century.

Draft additions January 2018

infant formula n. originally U.S. breast milk substitute, now typically with reference to one used as a source of nutrition for babies up to six months old; a type of this; = formula n. Additions.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > food otherwise characterized > [noun] > mother's milk > substitute for

baby milk1864

formula1901

infant formula1911

1911 Calif. State Board of Health Monthly Bull. Oct. 83 If entire milk does not agree, the infant formulas may be resorted to.

1921 W. H. Beal Proc. 34th Ann. Convent. Assoc. Land-grant Colleges 1920 275 The preparation of special diets for metabolic diseases and infant formula.

1979 Econ. Value Breast-feeding (Food & Agric. Organization U.N.) 70 Approximately 57kg of powdered infant formula would be required to replace breast milk for two years for one infant.

2014 Evening Times (Glasgow) (Nexis) 21 May 14 If your baby is diagnosed as having a milk allergy, your GP can prescribe alternatives to cows' milk-based infant formulas.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	infant
释义	infantn.¹adj. /ˈɪnfənt/ Forms: Middle English enfaunt, infaunt, 1500s enfant, infante, (1600s inphant), 1500s– infant. Etymology: < Old French enfant, -aunt (French enfant , Provençal enfan , Spanish infante , Portuguese infante , Italian infante ) child < Latin infāns , infānt-em child, noun use of infāns unable to speak, < in- (in- prefix⁴) + fāns , present participle of fārī to speak. Aphetized faunt n. 1. a. A child during the earliest period of life (or still unborn); now most usually applied to a child in arms, a babe; but often extended to include any child under seven years of age (cf. infant class, infant-school n.); in early use (esp. when transl. Latin infāns, or French enfant) used in the wider sense of ‘child’, and thus passing into the legal sense 2. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > baby or infant > [noun] childOE baban?c1225 fauntekin1377 infant1382 babea1393 fauntelet1393 babyc1400 lakinc1440 mop1440 chrisomer1574 tenderling1587 chrisom1596 childling1648 flosculet1648 bratling1652 lullaby-cheat1665 strangera1674 child (also infant, baby) in armsa1675 hoppet1695 tot1725 bambino1761 weanie1786 tiny1797 dot1800 trudgeon1814 toddle1825 toddles1828 yearnling1829 dab1833 toddler1837 baba1841 arrival1846 teeny-tiny1849 toddlekins1852 mite1853 trot1854 babelet1856 nestler1866 spoon-child1868 bubby1885 chavvy1886 bub1889 kiddy1889 toddleskin1890 newborn1893 kidlet1899 kidling1899 bubba1906 bundle of joy1924 liddly1929 mammet1932 snork1941 kiddywink1957 sproglet1987 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) 1 John ii. 14 I wrijte to ȝou, infauntis [gloss or ȝonge children], for ȝe han knowe the fadir. c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Zech. viii. 5 And streetis of the citee shuln be fulfillid with infauntis [a1425 L.V. ȝonge children] and maydens, pleyinge in the streetis of it. c1440 Gesta Romanorum (Harl.) i. xlviii. 209 Gothe swyftly..to the house of the forster,..and takithe of him the litle Infaunt, that his wyf this nyght chylded. a1475 Bk. Curtasye (Sloane 1986) l. 141 in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 303 Yf that þou be a ȝong enfaunt, And thenke þo scoles for to haunt. 1582 Bible (Rheims) Luke xviii. 15 They brought vnto him infants also, that he might touche them. 1594 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. II. 397 The burthen..hath sense & feeling about the sixe and thirtieth day, and from that time forward it is called an infant. But as yet it is voyde of motion. a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) ii. vii. 143 The Infant, Mewling, and puking in the Nurses armes. View more context for this quotation 1673 J. Milton Sonnets xv, in Poems (new ed.) 59 The bloody Piemontese that roll'd Mother with Infant down the Rocks. 1710 T. Parnell Hermit 151 The closed cradle where an infant slept. 1806 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. VI. 449 It was held, that a devise to an infant in ventre matris,..was good; which begun with an allowance for the birth of a posthumous child. 1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam liii. 77 An infant crying in the night: An infant crying for the light: And with no language but a cry. b. figurative. One who is a ‘child’, or very young beginner, in some department. ΘΚΠ society > education > learning > learner > [noun] > novice or beginner younglingOE new-comeOE novice1340 ginner?c1400 beginner1470 apprentice1489 prentice1489 infant1526 freshmana1557 intrant1560 enterer1565 puny?1570 weakling1575 new comeling1587 novist1587 incipient1589 puisne1592 abecedary1596 neophyte1600 abecedarian1603 bachelor1604 novelist?1608 alphabetary1611 breeching boy1611 tiro1611 alphabetarian1614 principiant1619 unexperienced1622 velvet head1631 undergraduatea1659 young stager1664 greenhorn1672 battledore boy1693 youngster1706 tironist1716 novitiatea1734 recruit1749 griffin1793 initiate1811 Johnny Newcome1815 Johnny Raw1823 griff1829 plebe1833 Johnny-come-lately1839 new chum1851 blanc-bec1853 fledgling1856 rookie1868 elementarian1876 tenderfoot1881 shorthorn1888 new kid1894 cheechako1897 ring-neck1898 Johnny1901 rook1902 fresh meat1908 malihini1914 initiand1915 stooge1930 intakea1943 cub1966 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection i. sig. Dv^v They were leed by Moyses, as yonge infantes and tender babes in feyth. 1594 H. Plat Diuerse Sorts of Soyle 9 in Jewell House Whereby all those that be the true infantes of Art, may receive a full light into Nature. 1899 N. Brit. Daily Mail 16 Feb. 5 As every political infant cannot fail to recognise, the whole question was..unconnected with party politics. c. transferred. A thing newly come into existence, or in its earliest stage. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > beginning > [noun] > the first part or beginning > the earliest stage(s) > something in earliest stage bud1579 embryon1581 infantc1595 embryo1608 rudiment1625 fetus1632 c1595 Countess of Pembroke Psalme xcvi. 34 in Coll. Wks. (1998) II. 145 Leauy Infants of the wood. 1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet i. iii. 39 The canker gaules the infants of the spring. View more context for this quotation 1608 Dispute Question of Kneeling 139 Reputed an infant and a novelty, rather then an antiquity. 1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer (1891) 215 The..questioning of old Paul..seemed adverse to the Utopian infant. 2. A person under (legal) age; a minor. In common law, one who has not completed his or her twenty-first year; in the case of a ruler, one who has not reached the age at which he becomes constitutionally capable of exercising sovereignty. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > child > [noun] > minor pupilc1384 ward1433 minor1526 infanta1535 jail-bait1934 1376 Rolls of Parl. II. 342/2 La Fyn ou Note se leva tan qe come l'Enfant estoit deinz age.] a1535 T. More Hist. Richard III in Wks. (1557) 50/2 Intend I to kepe him sins..law serueth y^e gardain to kepe the infant. 1601 F. Tate Househ. Ord. Edward II (1876) §25. 17 The infantes which happen to be the kinges wardes, shal have wages, and liverees, and al other necessaries, according to their estate. 1603 G. Owen Descr. Penbrokshire (1890) 19 [He] was governed by tutours beinge an inphant. 1624 E. Coke 1st Pt. Inst. Lawes Eng. 2 b An infant or minor (whom we call any that is under the age of 21 yeares). 1642 tr. J. Perkins Profitable Bk. x. §684. 295 An enfant who is a feoffee shall give notice; and an enfant who is Lord shall take notice. 1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. 460 The privileges and disabilities of an infant, or one under age and subject to guardianship. 1783 W. Thomson in R. Watson & W. Thomson Hist. Reign Philip III v. 322 Mary de Medicis sole regent of France during the minority of her son, an infant only in the ninth year of his age. 1858 Ld. St. Leonards Handy Bk. Prop. Law xiii. 81 Although..until a recent period an infant might have appointed a guardian to his children by deed or will, yet it seems that he can no longer do so by will. figurative.1692 J. Washington tr. J. Milton Def. People Eng. viii. 182 The Judges..Swear, That they will do nothing Judicially, but according to Law, tho the King by Word, or Mandate, or Letters under his own Seal, should command the contrary. Hence it is that the King is often said in our Law to be an Infant; and to possess his Rights and Dignities, as a Child or a Ward does his. †3. A youth of noble or gentle birth. Cf. infant n.², child n. 3. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > nobility > [noun] > noble person or man > noble child childOE infant1590 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. viii. sig. V2^v To whom the Infant thus, Fayre Sir, what need Good turnes be counted, as a seruile bond? 1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene vi. viii. sig. Ff6^v The Infant [Arthur] hearkned wisely to her tale. View more context for this quotation 1600 E. Fairfax tr. T. Tasso Godfrey of Bulloigne xvi. xxxiv. 287 The noble infant [Rinaldo] stood a space Confused, speechlesse. 4. Humorously applied to various productions of exceptional size, strength, etc. (See quots.) ΘΚΠ the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > largeness > [noun] > an exceptionally large thing of its kind swinger1599 rapper1653 thumper1660 whisker1668 spanker1751 slapper1781 whopper1785 skelper1790 smasher1794 pelter1811 swapper1818 jumbo1823 sneezer1823 whacker1825 whanger1825 infant1832 bulger1835 three-decker1835 bouncer1842 snorter1859 whalera1860 plonker1862 bruiser1868 snapper1874 plumper1881 boomer1885 heavy1897 sollicker1898 sanakatowzer1903 Moby Dicka1974 stonker1987 1832 Brighton Gaz. in Blew Brighton & its Coaches (1893) 187 Mr. Walter Hancock's steam-carriage, the ‘Infant’, was on the way from London to this place on an experimental trip. 1874 Graphic 5 Dec. 538/1 The heaviest gun now actually in position, commonly called the Woolwich Infant,..weighs 35 tons. 1888 Pall Mall Gaz. 6 June 2/2 The speciality of Woolwich is its big guns, its now famous and historic ‘infants’. Compounds C1. attributive or adj. (When appositive or attributive, often equivalent to an adjective= infantile adj., infantine adj.) a. appositive. That is an infant or like an infant, as infant angel, infant God, infant heir, infant king, infant martyr, infant poor, infant prodigy, infant warrior, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > baby or infant > [adjective] infant1595 1595 S. Daniel First Fowre Bks. Ciuile Warres i. xxxiv. sig. C2^v Kingdomes euer suffer this distresse, For one or manie guide the infant king. 1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 iii. ii. 113 This Hotspur Mars in swathling cloaths, This infant warrier. View more context for this quotation 1645 J. Milton On Christ's Nativity: Hymn iii, in Poems 2 A present to the Infant God. 1679 J. Dryden & N. Lee Oedipus iv. 57 All the Riches That Empire could bestow..Upon its Infant Heir. 1692 J. Washington tr. J. Milton Def. People Eng. xii. 234 A poor indigent King, surrounded with so many Infant-Priests and Doctors. a1704 T. Brown Oration in Praise Drunkenness in Wks. (1707) I. i. 54 Cheeks, like those the Painters give to Infant Angels. 1720 R. Welton tr. T. Alvares de Andrade Sufferings Son of God I. ix. 231 Thou wouldst not suffer those Infant-Martyrs..to endure so much as Thy Self. 1831 D. E. Williams Life Sir T. Lawrence I. 51 This infant prodigy had excited so much attention that his likeness was taken, and engraved by Sherwin. 1872 J. A. H. Murray in Complaynt Scotl. Introd. p. viii Of the three centuries of Scottish history [1300–1600]..nearly a century and a half were occupied by the reigns of infant sovereigns. 1874 F. W. Farrar Life Christ ii The recognition of the Infant Saviour by Simeon and Anna. a1900 Mod. The presentation of the infant Jesus in the temple. 1924 R. M. Ogden tr. K. Koffka Growth of Mind ii. §4. 49 Infant-prodigies who fail to live up to their early promise. 1939 F. Pratt Secret & Urgent i. 25 He was Jean François Champollion, an infant prodigy. b. appositive (or adj.). In its earliest stage, newly existing, ungrown, undeveloped, nascent, incipient, as infant blossom, infant civilization, infant code, infant colony, infant commerce, infant community, infant convert, infant fruit, infant industry (see quot. 1914), infant letters, infant navy, infant sorrow, infant spring, infant world, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > beginning > [adjective] > in early stages buddinga1586 infant1594 embryon1613 embryous1628 inchoateda1631 inchoativea1631 crepusculous1646 rudimentary1648 rudimental1658 embryo1659 incipient1669 crepuscular1679 dawninga1700 initiant1740 germing1749 embryotic1761 germinal1804 embryonic1825 embryonary1833 inchoanta1876 adawn1881 1594 W. Shakespeare Lucrece sig. H3 Old woes, not infant sorrowes beare them milde. View more context for this quotation 1672 N. Grew Anat. Veg. vi. 150 Upon observation of a young and Infant-Apple. 1707 J. Archdale New Descr. Carolina 23 Vast expence upon such an Infant Colony. 1728 A. Pope Dunciad iii. 88 The soil that arts and infant letters bore. 1779 F. Hervey et al. Naval Hist. Great Brit. II. 144 Of all the infant settlements in America, New-England alone..acknowledged the authority of the commonwealth. 1785 W. Cowper Tirocinium in Task 43 Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees. View more context for this quotation 1796 E. Burke Two Lett. Peace Regicide Directory France i. 81 The ruin of commerce and the almost total extinction of an infant credit. 1820 J. Keats Hyperion: a Fragm. i, in Lamia & Other Poems 146 She was a Goddess of the infant world. 1861 M. Pattison in Westm. Rev. Apr. 412 The unequal contest..of England's infant navy against the..supremacy of the Hanseatic Confederacy. 1870 Congress. Globe App. 29 Mar. 240/3 But, argue our defenders of monopoly, let us protect our infant industries, and when they have grown to manhood..they will need no further protection. 1906 Daily Chron. 17 Oct. 6/5 The argument for Protection there is not at all the infant-industry argument. 1914 A. C. McLaughlin & A. B. Hart Cycl. Amer. Govt. II. 176 Infant Industry. This term is applied to the need of protecting new industries in order to give them opportunity to compete with older foreign establishments. c. attributive or adj. Of or belonging to an infant or infants, proper to or intended for an infant or infants; childlike; childish; infantile, as infant bands, infant blood, infant breath, infant class, infant cradle, infant eye, infant gaud, infant state, infant softness, infant weakness, infant welfare, infant years, etc. Also infant-school n. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > baby or infant > [adjective] > relating to or characteristic of babish1532 infantc1595 infantical1601 infantine1603 infantlya1640 infantile1696 nursling1793 c1595 Countess of Pembroke Psalme lxxi. 52 in Coll. Wks. (1998) II. 88 By thee from infant Cradle Taught. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) Epil. 9 Henry the Sixt, in Infant Bands crown'd King. View more context for this quotation 1651–3 Bp. J. Taylor Serm. for Year (1678) 282 Though it be a shame to us to need such allectives and infant-gauds. 1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd ii. 78 The Murd'rous King..who sought his life, and missing fill'd With Infant blood the streets of Bethlehem. View more context for this quotation a1711 T. Ken Hymns for Festivals in Wks. (1721) I. 386 You in their Infant-age, To tender them engage. 1720 R. Welton tr. T. Alvares de Andrade Sufferings Son of God I. viii. 190 Even thro' Thy Infant-State, I behold Thy Majesty. 1720 R. Welton tr. T. Alvares de Andrade Sufferings Son of God I. iv. 76 That Infant-Weakness which Thou took'st upon Thee! 1792 S. Rogers Pleasures Mem. ii. 392 The joys and sorrows of our infant-years. 1918 79th Ann. Rep. Registrar-General 1916 (Cd. 8869) 35 Infant welfare organisations might well devote special attention to the first days of the life of illegitimate children. 1922 Encycl. Brit. XXX. 650/2 Infant Welfare Centres.—The first task has been to coördinate the work at the Infant Centre and the visitation of the mothers in their own homes. 1939 M. Spring Rice Working-class Wives p. vii Better methods of mothercraft through the influence of the Infant Welfare Centre. 1962 Guardian 9 Mar. 8/2 The orders might contain..infant welfare foods (distributed as a voluntary service). C2. infant-queller; infant-killing, infant-sprinkling; infant-feeding adj.; also infant-like adj. and adv. ΚΠ 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Infanticide, child-murthering, infant-killing. a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) ii. i. 36 Your abilities are to Infant-like, for dooing much alone. View more context for this quotation a1641 R. Montagu Acts & Monuments (1642) 386 Herod..the infant queller. 1656 R. Sanderson 20 Serm. Pref. sig. (a)^v Where are your Lay-Presbyters, your Classes, &c. to be found in Scripture? Where your Steeple-houses?.. Your Infant-sprinklings? 1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. v. 689 Produced, not in a Mature and Adult, but an Infant-like, Weak and Tender State. 1897 Westm. Gaz. 19 Jan. 12/2 The infant-feeding competition represents the..ceaseless intrigues in Court circles. C3. infant baptism n. the baptism of infants, pædobaptism. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > sacrament > baptism > kinds of baptism > child > [noun] paedobaptism1640 infant baptism1674 1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge 51 A blind man, who had been so from his Infant-baptism. 1680 W. Allen Perswasive to Peace & Unity (ed. 2) 49 Churches Founded in Infant-Baptism, are not to be held Communion with. infant mistress n. a woman teacher of infants at an elementary school. ΘΚΠ society > education > teaching > teacher > schoolteacher or schoolmaster > [noun] > elementary teacher schooldame1577 abecedary1596 dame1641 kindergarten teacher1863 kindergartener1868 infant mistress1921 1921 N.Z. Educ. Gaz. 1 Nov. 12/2 (advt.) Infant-mistress—South Wellington (Grade VII g): £310–£320. a1930 D. H. Lawrence Phoenix II (1968) 18 Last week the infant mistress did not come up, so I was alone. 1963 B. Pearson Coal Flat iii. 48 ‘The first infant mistress's job that's going,’ she thought. infant mortality n. the death of infants, spec. of those less than a year old. ΚΠ 1877 W. R. Alger Life E. Forrest I. 147 The rate of infant mortality may be reduced to one per cent of its present murderous average. 1939 M. Spring Rice Working-class Wives p. vii The high rates of infant mortality..in the early years of the present century. Draft additions January 2018 infant formula n. originally U.S. breast milk substitute, now typically with reference to one used as a source of nutrition for babies up to six months old; a type of this; = formula n. Additions. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food otherwise characterized > [noun] > mother's milk > substitute for baby milk1864 formula1901 infant formula1911 1911 Calif. State Board of Health Monthly Bull. Oct. 83 If entire milk does not agree, the infant formulas may be resorted to. 1921 W. H. Beal Proc. 34th Ann. Convent. Assoc. Land-grant Colleges 1920 275 The preparation of special diets for metabolic diseases and infant formula. 1979 Econ. Value Breast-feeding (Food & Agric. Organization U.N.) 70 Approximately 57kg of powdered infant formula would be required to replace breast milk for two years for one infant. 2014 Evening Times (Glasgow) (Nexis) 21 May 14 If your baby is diagnosed as having a milk allergy, your GP can prescribe alternatives to cows' milk-based infant formulas. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online December 2021). infantn.² /ˈɪnfənt/ Etymology: < Spanish infante, Portuguese infante: perhaps through French infant (1407 in Hatzfeld & Darmesteter): see infante n. A prince or princess of Spain or Portugal: = infante n., infanta n. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > nobility > rank > royalty > [noun] > royal person(s) > prince > prince or princess of Spain or Portugal infant1555 infante1555 infantado1659 1555 R. Eden Two Viages into Guinea in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 349 Don Lewes thinfant and brother to the kynge of Portugale. 1595 W. Allen et al. Conf. Next Succession Crowne of Ingland ii. viii. 181 The two duchesses..daughters..of the lord Edward infant of Portugal. 1614 J. Selden Titles of Honor 179 The Infant and heir of Spain..had the title of Prince of Asturias. 1631 T. Heywood England's Elizabeth (1641) 1 A match was concluded betwixt Prince Arthur..and the Infant Katharine, daughter to the King of Spain. 1753 Scots Mag. Jan. 12/1 The Infant Don Philip. 1838 E. Bulwer-Lytton Calderon i The craft of the king was satisfied by the device of placing about the person of the Infant one devoted to himself. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2021). † infantv. Forms: Also Middle English enfaunt. Etymology: < French enfanter (12th cent.) < enfant , infant n.¹ Obsolete. transitive. To bring forth (a child), to give birth to. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > birth > confinement > confine or deliver [verb (transitive)] > give birth forthbring971 akenOE haveOE bearOE to bring into the worldOE teemOE i-bereOE to bring forthc1175 childc1175 reara1275 ofkenc1275 hatcha1350 makea1382 yielda1400 cleck1401 issue1447 engenderc1450 infant1483 deliver?a1518 whelp1581 world1596 yean1598 fall1600 to give (a person or thing) birth1615 to give birth to1633 drop1662 pup1699 born1703 to throw off1742 beteem1855 birth1855 parturiate1866 shell1890 to put to bed1973 bring- 1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 128/2 The place in whych the vyrgyne marye enfaunted and childed Jhesu cryst. 1589 in Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xxii. 211 An ingenious inuention, infanted with pleasant trauaile. 1610 G. Fletcher Christs Victorie 23 But newely he was infanted, And yet alreadie he was sought to die. 1641 J. Milton Of Reformation 53 This worthy Motto, No Bishop, no King is of the same batch, and infanted out of the same feares. 1642 J. Milton Apol. Smectymnuus 50 The godly Ministers of England are not able to new mould a better and more pious Liturgy then this which was conceav'd and infanted by an idolatrous Mother. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.¹adj.1382n.²1555v.1483
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