certain name given to him; for Father, and God, and Creator, are but titles arifing from his works: and God is not a name, but a motion ingrafted in human nature of an inexpreffible being. Stilling feet. -There is an inimitable grace in.Virgil's words; and in them principally confifts that beauty, which gives to inexpreffible a pleasure to him who best understands their force; this diction of his is never to be copied. Dryden. *INEXPRESSIBLÝ. adv. [from inexpreffible.] To a degree, or in a manner, not to be uttered; unutterably,-God will protect and reward all his faithful fervants in a manner and measure inexpreably abundant. Hammond.-He began to play upon it: the found was exceeding fweet and wrought into a variety of tunes that were inexprably melodious. Addifon. INEXPUGNABLE. adj. [inexpugnable, Fr. inexpugnabilis, Lat.] Impregnable; not to be taken by affault; not to be fubdued.-Why fhould there be implanted in each fex fuch a vehement and inexpugnable appetite of copulation? Ray. INEXTINGUISHABLE. adj. [inextinguible, Sr. in and extinguo, Lat.] Unquenchable.-Pillara, ftatues, and other memorials, are a fort of badow of an endless life, and fhow an inextinguishable defire which all men have of it. Grew. INEXTRICABLE. adj. [inextricable, French, inextricabilis, Latin.] Not to be difintangled; not to be cleared; not to be fet free from obfcurity or perplexity. He that should tie inextricable knots, only to baffle the induftry of thofe that hould attempt to unloofe them, would be thought not to have ferved his generation. Decay of Piety Stopt by awful heights, and gulfs immenfe Of wisdom, and of vaft omnipotence, Sbe trembling stands, and does in wonder gaze, Loft in the wild inextricable maze. Blackmore. -Men are led into inextricable mazes by fetting up themfelves as judges of the world. Sherlock. INEXTRICABLY. adv. [from inextricable.] To a degree of perplexity not to be difintangled. -The mechanical atheist, though you grant him his laws of mechanifm, is nevertheless inextricably puzzled and baffled with the first formation of animals. Bentley. In vain they strive; th' intangling fnares deny, Inextricably firm, the power to fly. Pope. *To INEYE. v. n. [in and eye.] To inoculate; to propagate trees by the infition of a bud into a foreign ftock. Let fage experience teach thee all the arts Of grafting and ineying. Phillips. INFALISTATIO, an ancient punishment of felons, by throwing them among the rocks and fands, ufed in fea-port towns. Some think, that falilatus implied fome capital punishment, by expofing the malefactor upon the fands till the at tide carried him away; of which custom it is faid, there is an old tradition. However, the penalty feems to take its name from the Norman falese, or falefia, which fignified not the fands, but the rocks and cliffs impending on the fea-fhore. Commifit feleniam, ob quam fuit fufpenfus, ut legatus, alio modo morti damnatus, &c, vel apud Dover infalitatus, apud Southampton fubmerfus, &c. (1.) INFALLIBILITY. INFALLIBLENESS. n. f. [infallibilité, French; from infallible.] Inerrability; exemption from errour.-Infallibility is the highest perfection of the knowing faculty, and confequently the firmeft degree of affent. Tillotf (2.) The INFALLIBILITY afcribed to the POPE is one of the greateft controverfies between the Proteftants and Papifts: though, in fact, the latter are not agreed on that head, fome placing this pretended infallibility in the pope and a general council. * INFALLIBLE. adj. [infallible, French; in and fallible.] Privilege from errour; incapable of mistake; not to be misled or deceived; certain. Ufed both of perfons and things.-Every cause ad mitteth not fuch infallible evidence of proof as leaveth no poffibility of doubt or scruple behind it. Hooker. Believe my words; Shak For they are certain and infallible. -The fuccefs is certain and infallible, and none ever yet mifcarried in the attempt. South. * INFALLIBLY. adv. [from infallible.] 1. Without danger from deceit; with fecurity from errour.-We cannot be as God infallibly knowing good and evil. Smalridge. 2. Certainly.-Our bleffed Lord has distinctly opened the scene of futurity to us, and directed us to fuch a conduct as will infallibly render us happy in it. Rogers. *To INFAME. v. a. linfamer, French; infamo, Lat.] To represent to disadvantage; to defame; to cenfure publickly; to make infamous; to brand. To defame is now ufed.-Livia is infamed for the poifoning of her husband. Bacon.Hitherto obfcured, infam'd, And thy fair fruit let hang, as to no end Milton. *INFAMOUS. adj. [infamé, infamant, Fr. infamis, Lat.] Publicly branded with guilt; openly cenfured; of bad report.-Thofe that be far from thee, thall mock thee, which art infamous. Ezek. xxii. 5 Thefe are as fome infamous bawd or whore Should praise a matron; what could hurt her more? Ben Jonfon. After times will dispute it, whether Hotham were more infamous at Hull or at Tower-hill. K. Charles.-Perfons infamous, or branded in any publick court of judicature, are forbidden to be advocates. Ayliffe. *INFAMOUSLY. adv. [from infamous.] 1. With open reproach; with publick notoriety of reproach. 2. Shamefully; fcandalously. That poem was infamously bad. Dryden. ·} * INFAMOUSNESS. Į n.]. [infamie, French; (1.) * INFAMY. 5 infamia, Latin.] Publick reproach; notoriety of bad character.-Ye are taken up in the lips of talkers, and are the infamy of the people. Ezek. xxxvi. 3. The noble ifle doth want her proper limbs, Her face defac'd with fears of infamy. Shak. -Wilful perpetrations of unworthy actions brand, with moft indelible characters of infamy, the name and memory to pofterity. King Charles. (2.) INFAMY, in law, is a term which extends to forgery, perjury, grofs cheats, &c. by which a perfon is rendered incapable of being a witnefs or (1.) INFANT. adj. Not mature; in a state of initial imperfection. or juros, even though he is pardoned for his crimes. (1.) INFANCY. n. f. infantia, Latin.) 1. The firft part of life. Ufually extended by naturaults to feven years.-Dare we affirm it was ever his meaning, that unto their falvation, who even from their tender infancy Dever knew any other faith or religion than only Chriftian, no kind of teaching can be available, saving that which was fo needful for the firft univerfal converfion of gentiles hating Chriftianity? Hooker. Pirithous came t' attend This worthy Thefeus, his familiar friend: And rofe as childhood ripen'd into man. Dryd. -The infenfible impreffions on our tender infancies have very important and lafting confequences. Locke. 2. Civil infancy, extended by the English law to one and twenty years. 3. Firft age of any thing; beginning; original; commencement. In Spain our fprings,like old men's children,be Decay'd and wither'd from their infancy. Dryd. -The difference between the riches of Roman citizens in the infancy and in the grandeur of Rome, will appear by comparing the firft valuation of eftates with the eftates afterwards poffeffed. Arb. (2.) INFANCY,1,def. 1. Hoffman juftly obferves, that the human fpecies are infants until they be gin to talk, and children to the age of puberty.Anatomy difcovers to us, that during infancy there is much imperfection in the human frame; e.. its parts are difproportioned, and its organs incapable of thofe functions which in future life they are defigned to perform. The head is larger in proportion to the bulk of the body, than that of an adult. The liver and pancreas are much larger in proportion than in advanced life; their fecretions are more in quantity alfo. The bile is very inert; the heart is ftronger and larger than in future life; the quantity of blood fent through the heart of an infant, in a given time, is alfo more in proportion than in adults. Though thefe circumftances have their important ufefulness, yet the imperfection attending them fubjects this age to many injuries and dangers from which a more perfect ftate is exempted. Dr Percival obferves, in his Effays Med. and Exp. that of all the children who are born alive, two thirds do not live to be two years old. Infants have a larger proportion of brain than adults, hence are moft fubject to nervous diforders; and hence the diagnostics of difeafes are in many refpects obfcure and uncertain, particularly thofe taken from the pulfe, which, from the irritability of the tender bodies of infants, is fuddenly affected by a variety of accidents too numerous, and feemingly too trivial to gain our attention. However, no very great embarraffment arifes to the practitioner from hence; for the diforders in this ftate are generally acute, lefs complicated than thofe in adults, and are more eafily difcovered than is generally fuppofed. INFANGTHEF, or bing fangtheft, or infangtheof, is compounded of three Saxon words: the prepofition in, fang, or fong, to take or catch, and thef. It fignifies a privilege or liberty granted unto lords of certain manors to judge any thief taken within their fee. Corvel. Within the infant rind of this small flower Pollon hath residence,and medicine power.Shak. Firft the fhrill found of a small rural pipe Was entertainment for the infant ftage. Rofcom. In their tender nonage, while they fpread Their fpringing leaves and lift their infant head, Indulge their childhood. Dryden's Virgil. (2.) INFANT. . f. [enfant, Fr. infans, Lat.] 1. A child from the birth to the end of the seventh year. It being a part of their virtuous education, ferveth greatly to nourish in them the fear of God, and to put us in continual remembrance of that powerful grace, which openeth the mouths of infants to found his praife. Hooker-There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not filled his days. Isaiah lxv, 20. Young mothers wildly ftare, with fear poffeft, And strain their helpless infants to their breast. Dryden's Eneid. 2. [In law.] A young perfon to the age of one and. twenty. (3.) INFANT. (2, def. 1.) See INFANCY, § 2. Infants, amongst the Jews, Greeks, and Romans, were fwaddled as foon as they were born, in a manner fimiliar to that practifed by the moderns. The Jews circumcifed and named their infant children on the 8th day from their birth. Upon the birth of a fon, the Grecians crowned their doors with olive; of a daughter, with wool. The infant was washed in warm water, and anointed with oil by the Spartans with wine; it was then dressed, and laid in a basket, or on a fhield if the father was a warrior, particularly amongst the Spartans. At five days old they ran with it round the fire, and the mother's relations fent prefents. The Greeks named their children on the 10th day, the Romans on the 9th. The naming was attended with facrifices and other demonftrations of joy. The maternal office of fuckling their own children was never declined, when circumftances would permit. How different is this from the unnatural delicacy obferved by modern mothers, a delicacy which to the child is cruelty? The 40th day was a day of folemnity for the mother. The names of children were registered both among the Greeks and Romans. See REGISTER, N° 4. Infants were kept from crying in the streets by means of a fponge foaked in honey. Nurses had also their bugbears and terrible names to frighten the children into peace:-The figure with which they were principally intimidated was Mogμoruxelov, a fort of raw head and bloody bones. (4.) INFANT, in law, is a perfon under 21 years of age; whofe capacities, incapacities, and privileges are various. I. INFANT, IN CIVIL MATTERS. The ages of male and female are different for different purposes. A male at 12 years old may take the oath of allegi ance; at 14 is at the years of difcretion, and therefore may confent or difagree to marriage, may choose his guardian, and, if his difcretion be actually proved, may make his teftament of his perfonal eftate; at 17 may be an executor; and at 21 is at his own difpofal, and may alien his lands, goods, and chattels. A female also at 7 years of age may be be betrothed or given in marriage; at 9 is entitled comes of age, or permit the infant to be debarred of to dower ; at 12 is at years of maturity, and there. his right by lapfe to the bishop. An infant may fore many consent or disagree to marriage, and, if also purchase lands, but his purchase is incomproved to have sufficient discretion, may bequeath plete ; for when he comes to age, he may either her personal estate ; at 14 is at years of legal dif. agree or disagree to it, as he thinks prudent or cretion, and may choose a guardian ; at 17 may proper, without alleging any reason; and so may be executrix; and at 21 may dispose of herself his heirs after him, if he dies without having comand her lands. So that full age in male or female pleted his agreement. It is, farther, generally true, is at 21 years, which age is completed on the day that an infant under 21 can make no deed but preceding the anniversary of a person's birth ; who what is afterwards voidable: yet in some cases he till that time is an infant, and so ftyled in law. may bind himself apprentice by deed indented, or Among the ancient Greeks and Romans, women indentures for 7 years; and he may by deed of were never of age, but subject to perpetual guar. will appoint a guardian to his children, if he has dianship, unless when married nisi convenisent in any. Laftly, it is generally true, that an infant manum viri : and, when that perpetual tutelage can make no other contract that will bind him; wore away in process of time, we find that, in fe. yet he may bind himself to pay for his necessary males as well as males, full age was not tillo 25 meat, drink, apparel, phyfic, and such other ne. years. Thus by the conftitution of different king. ceffaries; and likewise for his good teaching and doms, this period, which is merely arbitrary, and instruction, whereby he may profit himself after: juris pofitivi, is fixed at different times. Scotland ,wards. agrees with England in this point; (both probably II. INFANT, IN CRIMINAL MATTERS. The law copying from the old Saxon constitutions on the of England does in some cases privilege an infant continent, which extended the age of minority ad under the age of 21, as to common misdemeana annum vigefimum primum, et eo usque juvenes fub ours; so as to escape fine, imprisonment, and the tutelam reponunt ;) but in Naples persons are of like : and particularly in the cases of omiffion, as full age at 18; in France, before the revolution, not repairing a bridge, or a high way, and other with regard to marriage, not till 30; and in Hol- fimilar offences; for, not having the command of land at 25. The very disabilities of infants are his fortune till the age of 21, he wants the capaprivileges; in order to secure them from hurting city to do those things which the law requires. themselves by their own improvident acts. An But where there is any notorious breach of the infaot cannot be sued but under the protection, peace, a riot, battery, or the like, (which infants and joining the name, of his guardian ; for he is when full grown are at least as liable as others to to defend him against all attacks as well by law as commit;) for those, an infant above the age of otherwise ; but he may sue either by his guardian, 14 is equally liable to suffer, as a person of the full or prochein amy, his next friend who is not his age of 21. With regard to capital crimes, the guardian. This procbein amy may be any person law is still more minute and circumspect; diftinwho will undertake the infant's cause; and it fre- guishing with greater nicety the feveral degrees of quently happens, that an infant, by his prochein age and discretion. By the ancient Saxon law, amy, institutes a suit in equity against a fradulent the age of 12 years was established for the age of guardian. With regard to estates and civil pro- possible discretion, when firit the understanding perty, an infant hath many privileges. In gene- might open ; and from thence till the offender was ral, an infant shall lose nothing by nonclaim, or 14, it wasætas pubertati proxima, in which hemight, neglect of demanding his right ; nor shall any or might not, be guilty of a crime, according to other lacbes or negligence be imputed to an infant, his natural capacity or incapacity. This was the except in some very particular cases. It is gene. dubious stage of discretion : but, under 12, it rally true, that an infant can neither alien his was held, that he could not be guilty in will, nei. lands, nor do any legal act, nor make a deed, nor ther after 14 could be supposed innocent of any any manner of contract, that will bind him. capital crime which he in fact committed. But But ftill to all these rules there are some by the law, as it now stards, and has stood at exceptions ; part of which were just now men- least ever fince the time of Edward III. the capac tioned in reckoning up the different capacities city of doing ill, or contracting guilt, is not so which they assume at different ages: and there much measured by years and days, as by the are others, a few of which it may not be impro- ftrength of the delinquent's understanding and per to recite, as a general specimen of the whole. judgment. For one lad of 11 years old may have And, firft, it is true, that infants cannot alien as much cunning as another of 14; and in these their eftates; but infant-trustees, or mortgagecs, cases the maxim is, that malitia fupplet ætatem. are enabled to convey, under the direction of the Under 7 years of age, indeed, an infant cannot be court of chancery or exchequer, or other courts guilty of felony; for then a felonious discretion is of equity, the estates they hold in trust or mort. almost an impossibility in nature: but at 8 years gage, to such person as the court shall appoint. old, he may be guilty of felony. Also, under 14, Allo it is generally true, than an infant can do no though an infant shall be prima facie adjudged to legal act: yet an infant, who has an advowson, be doli incapax, yet if it appear to the court may present to the benefice when it becomes void. and jury that he was doli capax, and could discern For the law in this case dispenses with one rule, between good and evil, he may be convicted and in order to maintain others of far greater conse. suffer death. Thus a girl of 13 has been burnt quence: it permits an infant to present a clerk for killing her mistress: and one boy of ten, and (who, if unfit, may be rejected by the bishop), rather another of nine years old, who had killed their thaa either fuffer the church to be unserved till he companions, have been sentenced to death, and he givers of fleep and fafety to an army. Wherev there is found light cavalry, there should be lig infantry. They should be accustomed to the pa of 4 miles an hour, as their usual marching pac and to be able to march at 5 miles an hour up particular occafions. Moft of the powers on t continent have light infantry. It is only of la that light infantry came to be used in the Briti army: But now every regiment has a compas of light infantry, whofe ftation is on the left the regiment, the right being occupied by t grenadiers. he of ten years actually hanged, because it appeared upon their trials, that the one hid himfelf, and the other hid the body he had killed; which hiding manifefted a consciousness of guilt, and a difcretion to difcern between good end evil. And there was an inftance in the laft century, where a boy of 8 years old was tried at Abington for firing two barns, and, it appearing that he had malice, revenge, and cunning, he was found guilty, condemned, and hanged accordingly. Thus alfo, in very modern times, a boy of ten years old was convicted on his own confeflion of murdering his bedfellow; there appearing in his whole behaviour plain tokens of a mischievous difpofition; and, as the fparing this boy merely on account of his tender years might be of dangerous confequence to the public, by propagating a notion that children might commit fuch atrocious crimes with impunity, it was unanimously agreed by all the judges, that he was a proper fubject of capital punishment. But, in all fuch cafes, the evidence of that malice, which is to supply age, ought to be ftrong and clear beyond all doubt and contradiction. (5.) INFANTS, EXPOSING OF. See EXPOSING, N° 2. ́(1.) * INFANTA. ». f. [Spanish.] A princefs defcended from the royal blood of Spain. (2.) INFANTA, and are titles given to all the INFANTE, fons and daughters of the kings of Spain and Portugal, except the eldeft; the princes being called infantes, and the princeffes infantas. INFANTES, a town of Spain in New Caftile, 20 miles W. of Alcaraz. * INFANTICIDE. n. f. [infanticide, Fr. infanti cidium, Lat.] The flaughter of the infants by Herod. * INFANTILE. adj. [infantilis, Lat.] Pertain ing to an infant.-The fly lies all the winter in thefe balls in its infantile ftate, and comes not to its maturity 'till the following fpring. Denham. (1.) INFANTRY. n. f. infanterie, Fr.] The foot foldiers of an army The principal itrength of an army confifteth in the infantry or foot; and to make good infantry it requireth men bred in fome free and plentiful manner. Bacon's Henry VII. That small infantry, Warr'd on by cranes. Milton. (2.) INFANTRY takes its origin from one of the INFANTAS of Spain, who, finding that the army commanded by the king, her father, had been defeated by the Moors, allembled a body of foot foldiers, and with them engaged and totally route ed the enemy. In memory of this event, and to honour the foot-foldiers, who were not before held in much confideration, they received the name of infantry. (3.) INFANTRY, HEAVY-ARMED, among the ancients, were fuch as wore a complete fuit of armour, and engaged with broad fields and long fpears. They were the flower and ftrength of the Grecian armies, and had the highest rank of mili tary honour. (4.) INFANTRY, LIGHT, among the moderns, bave only been in ute fince 1656. They have no camp equipage to carry, their arms and accoutre. ments are much lighter than thofe of the infantry. Light infantry are the eyes of a general, and the (5.) INFANTRY, LIGHT-ARMED, among t ancients, were defigned for skirmishes, and f fighting at a distance, Their weapons were a rows, darts, or flings, * INFARCTION. n. f. [in and forcio, Lat Stuffing; conftipation.-An hypochondriack co fumption is occafioned by an infarction and of ftruction of the fpleen. Harvey. (1.) To INFATUATE. v. a. (infatuo, fro in and fatuus, Latin; infatuer, French. T frike with folly; to deprive of understanding. The judgment of God will be very vifible in fatuating a people, as ripe and prepared for d ftruction, into folly and madness, making t weak to contribute to the defigns of the wicked and fuffering even thofe, out of a confcience their guilt, to grow more wicked. Clarendonis the reforming of the vices and fottishnefs th had long overfpread the infatuated gentile work a prime branch of that defign of Chrift's fendi his difciples. Hammond. May hypocrites, That flily speak one thing, another think, Drink on unwarn'd, 'till, by enchanting cup Infatuate, they their wily thoughts disclose. Philli The people are fo univerfally infatuated wi the notion, that, if a cow falls fick, it is ten one but an old woman is clapt up in prifon for Addison. The carriage of our atheists or deifts amazing; no dotage to infatuate, no phrenfy extravagant as theirs. Bentley. (2.) TO INFATUATE fignifies alfo to prepoff any one in favour of fome person or thing does not deferve it, fo far as that he cannot eat be difabufed.-The word comes from the La fatuus, fool; of fari, to speak out, which is borro ed from the Greek paw, whence parns, which nifies the fame with vates in Latin, or prophet English; and the reason is, because their proph or priefts ufed to be feized with a kind of m nefs or folly, when they began to make their dictions, or deliver oracles. INFATUATI, n., among the ancient Roma perfons who fancied they had feen vifions, or in gined the god FAUNUS, whom they called Fats had appeared to them. * INFATUATION. n.. [from infatu The act of firiking with folly; deprivation of fon.-Where men give themselves over to the fence of wicked interefts and falfe propofitions is juft with God to fmite the greatest abilities the greatest infatuations. South. *INFAUSTING. n. J. [from infauftus, La The act of making unlucky. An odd and in gant word. As the king did in fome part rem the envy from himself, so he did not obferve, that In a house, he did withal bring a kind of mziedi&tion and in- Where the infe&ious peftilence did reign. Shak. fausting upon the marriage, as an ili pragnostick. Some known diseases are in freious, and others Bacon. are not : those that are infectious are such as are * INFEASIBLE. adj. (in and feasible. Im- chiefly in the spirits, and not so much in the hupracticable; not to be done.-This is fo difficult mours, and therefore pass easily from body to and infeasible, that it may well drive modesty to body; such as pestilences and lippitudes. Bacon. despair of science. Glanville. ---Smells may have as much power to do good as * TO INFECT. v. a. (infe&er, Fr. infe&tus, to do barm, and contribute to health as well as Lat.] 1. To act upon by contagion; to affect tu diseases; which is too much felt by experience with communicated qualities ; to hurt by conta. in all that are infe&ious, and by the operations of gion ; to taint; to poison; to pollute. --One of some poisons, that are received only by the smell. those fantastical mind infeated people, that chil. Temple. dren and musicians call lovers, Sidney. * INFECTIOUSLY. adv. [from infe&ious.] Thine eyes, sweet lady, have infe&ed mine. Contagiously. Shak. The will dotes, that is inclinable The nature of bad news infe&ts the teller. To what infectiously itself affects. Shak. Shak. * INFECTIOUSNESS. n. f. [from infe&ious.] Ev'ry day The quality of being infectious; contagiousness. It would infe&t his speech, that if the king * INFECTIVE. adj. (from infe&t.] Having Should without issue die, he'd carry it so the quality of acting by contagion.--True love, To make the sceptre his. Shak. well considered, hath an infektive power. Sidney. Infe&ed minds * INFECUND. n. f. linfæcundus, Lat.), VnTo their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets. fruitful; infertile.---How safe and agreeable a con Shak. fervatory the earth is to vegetables, is manifest -She speaks poinards, and every word stabs: if from their rotting, drying, or being rendered her breath were as terrible as her terminations, infecund in the waters, or the air; but in the earth there were no living near her; she would infeat to their vigour is long preserved. Derham.. the north ftar. Shak. * INFECUNDITY. n. f. (infecunditas, Lat.] I am refurp'd your foldier ; Want of fertility ; barrenness. Shak. an heritable subject to the purchaser. * INFELICITY. n. f., (infelicité, Fr. infelicitas, Infe&ed Sion's daughters with like heat. Lat.] Unhappiness; misery; calamity. What Milton. ever is the ignorance and infelicity of the present 2. To fill with something hurtfully contagious.- ftate, we were made wife and happy. Glanville. Infected be the air i hereon they ride, Here is our great infelicity, that, when single And dama'd ali thote that trust them! Shak. words fignify complex ideas, one word can never (1.) * INFECTION. n. fo [infe&tion, French, diftin&tly manifest all the parts of a complex idea. infe&io, Lat.) Contagion ; mischief by communi- Watts. cation ; taint; poison-Infe&ion is that manner * To INFER. v. a. (inferer, Fr. infero, Lat.] of communicating a disease by some effluvia, or 1. To bring on; to induce.-Vomits infer some particles which Ay off from diftempered bodies, small detriment to the lungs. Harvey. 2. To in, and mixing with the juices of others, occafion the fer is nothing but, by virtue of one propolitica fame disorders as in the bodies they came from. laid down as true, to draw in another as true, Quincy.- i. e. to see or suppose such a connection of the two What a strange infection ideas of the in ferred propofition. Locke. Is fall’n into thy ear! Sbak. Yet what thou can'ít attain, which best may The blessed Gods serve Purge all infe&tions from our air, whilft you To glorify the Maker, and infer Do climate here. Shak. Thee also happier, shall not be with held Vouchsafe, diffus'd infe&tion of a man, Thy hearing. Milton, For these known evils but to give me leave, Great Though in comparison of heav'n so small, Nor gliftering, may of solid good contain Like hold on thee. Shak. More plenty than the sun, that barren. Thines. -The transmission or emission of the thinner and Milton. more airy parts of bodies, as in odours, and in- -One would wonder how, from so differing prea fe&ions, is of all the rest the most corporeal; mises, they should all infer the same conclusion, but withal there be a number of those emiffions, Decay of Piety.-They have more oppor: unities, both wholesome and unwholesome, that give nó than other men have, of purchasing public esteem, imell at all. Bacon. by deferving well of mankind; and such opportu. (2.) INFECTION. See CONTAGION. nities always infer obligations. Atterbury. 3. To. INFECTIOUS. adj. (from infe&.] Conta: offer; to produce. Not in use.gioas; influencing by communicated qualities.- Full well hath Clifford played the orator, The most infectious peftilence upon thee. Inferring arguments of mighty force. Sbok Shak. * INFERENCE. n. f. [inference, Fr. from infer, VOL. XII. PART I. T Conclusion : n. |