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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
infeft .
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Examples
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The rivers and lakes arc infefted by alligators and water-lerpen»s.
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Is be - iieged, ib, - The garrifon infefted v. 'ith the plague, 80.
The history of England : from the invasion iof Julius Cæsar to the revolution in 1688 ... 1796
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The rivers and lakes of Amtolia i but it*8 two harbours have are infefted with crocodiles, alligators, and beenVoDg ago choked up with fand, and ferpents.
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And, whether fanaticifm beVeligious, political, or philofophical, it is equally ruinous to the nation, in proportion to the numbers, who arc infefted with its horrors.
An Estimate of the Comparative Strength of Great Britain, During the Present and Four Preceding ... 1794
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We have a few at prcfent, fomc of whom are infefted with each fpecies of fanaticifm*
An Estimate of the Comparative Strength of Great Britain, During the Present and Four Preceding ... 1794
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In the month of April, in company with the Dartmouth and Little Gift, he captured threq Dutch merchant-men oflF the coaft of Ireland, one of them mounting thirty, another twenty, and the third eighteen guns; and, in a few days afterwards, took a Flufhing privateer which had long infefted the coaft.
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In the month of January 1698-9, he wa5 ordered to the Eaft Indies, under the command of commodore George Warren, who was fent thither lo fupprefs a very formid - able band of pirates, who had fettled on the ifland of Madagafcar, and had long infefted thofe feas.
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They re - port, that the city being once infefted with a dragon, Ju - piter ordered them to expofe every year to the favage ani - mal certain young men chofen by lot; and that the names of thofe that periihed except one funk into oblivion.
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Whei that pafTion is carried into folly, by indulgence, and from foUy is animated by incitement, into enthu* fiafm, the intereft of the public is ruined, while the fn&tj of the ftate is endangered* Hence, it came tp be confidered by the wife, as a point agreed that nations may be infefted with in£uiity, as well
An Estimate of the Comparative Strength of Great Britain, During the Present and Four Preceding ... 1794
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For this reafon Galicia, where agriculture prevails, is little infefted with the locuil.
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