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1609 Bp. W. Barlow Answer Catholike English-man 119 They which take them in..doe contagiously re-infect the very ayre which they breath with a pestilent Sauour of superstition and Disloyaltie.

1681 London Gaz. No. 1657/3 Your Declaration, dated the eighth of April last; which very observably allayed the contemptuous contagion that began to reinfect the credulous and unstable.

1754 T. Delafaye Vindic. Serm. entitled Inoculation Indefensible Pract. ii. ii. 128 The consequent hazard under such circumstances of being re-infected.

1849 Retrospect Pract. Med. & Surg. 18 210 The neck and even cavity of the uterus formed a sort of laboratory from which the vitiated secretion issued, to re-infect continually the vaginal membrane.

1889 G. A. Smith Bk. Isaiah (ed. 2) I. 422 Not only to find it [sc. sin] ‘hindering, disturbing, complicating all’, but reinfecting with the lust and odour of sin the will which gave it birth.

1928 L. E. H. Whitby Med. Bacteriol. xxi. 210 The envelope of the corpuscle bursts and the merozoites are set free. These in turn reinfect red corpuscles.

1960 Farmer & Stockbreeder 12 Jan. 12 Loose smut reinfects growing corn and so perpetuates the disease.

1986 Eng. Jrnl. 75 82/3 This book bears rereading once a year if for no other reason than to be reinfected with the author's boundless enthusiasm for books and kids.

1996 Linux Jrnl. Oct. 6/3 I was not brave enough to re-infect my PC with the same virus to see if other virus cleaning programs act the same way.

2002 High Country News 10 June 5/3 Infected elk or deer in Wyoming and in the national park could easily wander into eradicated regions, reinfecting the ‘cleansed’ populations.