Word Meanings - BELEPER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To infect with leprosy. Beau. & Fl.

Related words: (words related to BELEPER)

• INFECTIOUSLY
  In an infectious manner. Shak.
• LEPROSY
  A cutaneous disease which first appears as blebs or as reddish, shining, slightly prominent spots, with spreading edges. These are often followed by an eruption of dark or yellowish prominent nodules, frequently producing great deformity. In one
• INFECTIVE
  Infectious. Beau. & Fl. True love . . . hath an infective power. Sir P. Sidney.
• INFECTIOUS
  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
• INFECTIOUS DISEASE
  Any disease caused by the entrance, growth, and multiplication of bacteria or protozoans in the body; a germ disease. It may not be contagious. Sometimes, as distinguished from contagious disease, such a disease communicated by germs carried in
• INFECTIOUSNESS
  The quality of being infectious.
• INFECTION
  Contamination by illegality, as in cases of contraband goods; implication. 6. Sympathetic communication of like qualities or emotions; influence. Through all her train the soft infection ran. Pope. Mankind are gay or serious by infection. Rambler.
• INFECT
  Infected. Cf. Enfect. Shak.
• INFECTIBLE
  Capable of being infected.
• INFECTER
  One who, or that which, infects.
• REINFECT
  To infect again.
• DISINFECT
  To free from infectious or contagious matter; to destroy putrefaction; to purify; to make innocuous. When the infectious matter and the infectious matter and the odoriferous matter are one . . . then to deodorize is to disinfect. Ure.
• DISINFECTANT
  That which disinfects; an agent for removing the causes of infection, as chlorine.
• DISINFECTOR
  One who, or that which, disinfects; an apparatus for applying disinfectants.
• AUTO-INFECTION
  Poisoning caused by a virus that originates and develops in the organism itself.
• DISINFECTION
  The act of disinfecting; purification from infecting matter.
• REINFECTIOUS
  Capable of reinfecting.