Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which infects.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who, or that which, infects.
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- noun One who, or that which,
infects .
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Examples
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There are certain combined looks of simple subtletywhere whim, and sense, and seriousness, and nonsense, are so blended, that all the languages of Babel set loose together could not express themthey are communicated and caught so instantaneously, that you can scarce say which party is the infecter.
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Fr. _infecter_, to infect; poison; depraue, corrupt.
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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Mainly, the infecter is restricted to JavaScript code or Flash ActionScript code.
GNUCITIZEN Comments 2009
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"According to an old but erroneous belief, infection communicated to another left the infecter free; in allusion to which Timon of Athens
Algonquin Legends of New England Charles Godfrey Leland 1863
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IV. iii.64 (353,9) I will not kiss thee] This alludes to an opinion in former times, generally prevalent, that the venereal infection transmitted to another, left the infecter free.
Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies Samuel Johnson 1746
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