1. infect - Adjective
2. infect - Verb
Infected. Cf. Enfect.
To taint with morbid matter or any pestilential or noxious substance or effluvium by which disease is produced; as, to infect a lancet; to infect an apartment.
To affect with infectious disease; to communicate infection to; as, infected with the plague.
To communicate to or affect with, as qualities or emotions, esp. bad qualities; to corrupt; to contaminate; to taint by the communication of anything noxious or pernicious.
To contaminate with illegality or to expose to penalty.
Source: Webster's dictionaryFalse words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil. Socrates
I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul. Jean-Paul Sartre
We pray that the deceitful race - such hateful enemies and blasphemers of the name of Christ - be not allowed to further infect and trouble this new colony. Peter Stuyvesant
False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil. Plato
There was a time when I liked a good riot. Put on some heavy old street clothes that could stand a bit of sidewalk-scraping, infect myself with something good and contagious, then go out and stamp on some cops. It was great, being nine years old. Warren Ellis
One scabbed sheep will infect a whole flock. German Proverb