infectiouslyadv.

1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida ii. ii. 58 The will dotes that is attributiue; To what infectiously it selfe affects, Without some image of th' affected merit. View more context for this quotation

1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 60 The ditch..which too oft smels infectiously.

1679 W. Hughes Spirit of Prophecy iv. 114 So infectiously wicked it seems they were, as that they perswaded others to be as bad as themselves.

1751 Earl of Orrery in tr. Pliny the Younger Lett. (Dublin ed.) I. i. xxiii. 84 The present infatuation, which infectiously spread itself over the whole species of Roman people.

1793 Sporting Mag. Oct. 34/1 The Improvement of Farriery has been..infectiously infatuated by a popular publication.

1848 New Eng. Bot. Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 16 Jan. 36 I have several times seen something like this, prevailing epidemically,—or, to be more critical, infectiously.

1875 L. M. Alcott Eight Cousins xviii. 207 She sat laughing so infectiously that all but Mrs. Clara joined in her mirth.

1896 Chicago Advance 15 Oct. 516 Glasgow's famous hospital for the infectiously diseased.

1918 Christian Scientist Sept. 3/1 Has the murder thought infectiously spreading in a crowd at a lynching-bee ever caused you to reflect on the meaning of the mob-thought?

1966 M. Pei How to learn Langs. viii. 70 Some teachers are infectiously dynamic and enthusiastic in the way they affect their group students.

1999 P. Baldwin Contagion & State in Europe iii. 152 The Public Health Act 1875 continued compulsory removals of the infectiously ill from ships.