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Infect vs Infeft - What's the difference?

infect | infeft |

As verbs the difference between infect and infeft

is that infect is to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness (a pathogen) while infeft is past participle of infeoff.

As an adjective infect

is infected.

infect

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To bring into contact with a substance that causes illness (a pathogen).
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= Katie L. Burke
    • , title= In the News , volume=101, issue=3, page=193, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Bats host many high-profile viruses that can infect humans, including severe acute respiratory syndrome and Ebola.}}
  • To make somebody enthusiastic about one's own passion.

    • Antonyms

    * disinfect

    Derived terms

    * infection * infectible

    Related terms

    * infectious

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (obsolete) Infected.
  • * 1602 , , I. iii. 187:
    • And in the imitation of these twain, / Who, as Ulysses says, opinion crowns / With an imperial voice, many are infect .
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    infeft

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • * 1843 , '', book 2, chapter XII, ''The Abbot’s Troubles
    • he alleged farther that his predecessors had been infeft , at the Conquest, in the lands of Alfric son of Wisgar, who was Lord of by all persons.
  • * 1885 ,
    • […] while a minor he received a dispensation and special license from the king, dated 8 Jan. 1608, upon which by a precept from chancery he was infeft in all the lands possessed by his father on 26, 27, 28 and 29 April.
  • :* {{quote-book
    • , year=1980 , year_published=2008 , edition=Digitized , editor= , author=Ann Morton, Gordon Donaldson , title=British National Archives and the Local Historian , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=Historical Association , isbn= , page= , passage=Not only had a vassal to be infeft' when a grant was made or confirmed: a successor had to be ' infeft when he took up his inheritance. }}