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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Infectious \In*fec"tious\, a. [Cf. F. infectieux.] 1. Having qualities that may infect; communicable or caused by infection; pestilential; epidemic; as an infectious fever; infectious clothing; infectious air; infectious vices. Where the infectious pestilence. --Shak. 2. Corrupting, or tending to corrupt or contaminate; vitiating; demoralizing. It [the court] is necessary for the polishing of manners . . . but it is infectious even to the best morals to live always in it --Dryden. 3. (Law) Contaminating with illegality; exposing to seizure and forfeiture. Contraband articles are said to be of an infectious nature. --Kent. 4. Capable of being easily diffused or spread; sympathetic; readily communicated; as infectious mirth. The laughter was so genuine as to be infectious. --W. Black. Syn: See {Contagious}. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Parotitis \Par`o*ti"tis\, n. [NL. See {Parotid}, and {-itis}.] (Med.) Inflammation of the parotid glands. {Epidemic}, or {Infectious}, {parotitis}, mumps. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: infectious adj 1: caused by infection or capable of causing infection; viruses and other infective agents"; "a carrier remains infective without himself showing signs of the disease" [syn: {infective}] 2: easily spread; "fear is exceedlingly infectious; children catch it from their elders"- Bertrand Russell [ant: {noninfectious}]
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