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uninˈfected, ppl. a.
[un-1 8.]
1. Not infected or tainted with sedition, heresy, vice, or the like. Also const. by, with.
1628Sir R. Le Grys tr. Barclay's Argenis 88 What dost thou stay for? Till there be nothing vninfected in Sicily. Art thou afraid to disturbe their scarce ripe preparations? 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. iv. §36. 553 Neither was Plotinus himself..altogether uninfected with this Phantastick Conceit. a1715Burnett Own Time ii. xiii. (1897) I. 535 By this means..all the outed ministers would be..kept from going round the uninfected parts of the kingdom. 1777Robertson Hist. Amer. i. (1778) I. 8 Preserving them a separate people uninfected by idolatry. 1795V. Knox Spir. Despotism §29 As influence increases, the jealousy and vigilance of the uninfected part of the community should increase in proportion.
2. spec. Not infected with disease, poison, etc.
1625K. Long tr. Barclay's Argenis ii. xv. 111 Let us see, quoth hee, whether the Bracelet be uninfected. 1684J. S. Profit & Pleas. United 16 Separating the infected, from the uninfected [cattle]. 1744Armstrong Preserv. Health iii. 31 Serene he bears the peevish eastern blast, And uninfected breathes the mortal South. 1813J. Thomson Lect. Inflam. 485 If pains be taken to prevent intercourse between the infected and uninfected. 1890Retrospect Med. CII. 292 The risk of leaving untreated a clot in the immediate neighbourhood of very virulent septic matter in the hope that it may remain uninfected. |
