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inficiare

1 inficiare [ML] , to infect, poison: a (food or drink); b (person; also fig.); c (absol.). a pocula diversis inficiata modis Steph. Rouen III 802.  b sic errore suo jam plebes inficiavit Steph. Rouen III 839; morte horribili infra breve spatium ~iati sunt (Wenefred 24) VSB 298; s1266 multi de castro potu venenati [MS: venenato] inficiati mortui sunt Oxnead Chr. 232.  c castellum ‥ construxisse proposuit ‥ quod tamen, ~iante Parcarum inclemencia, prothdolor non perfecit Ps.-Elmh. Hen. V 82.
2 inficiare v. infitiari

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