Word Meanings - FRENCHIFY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To make French; to infect or imbue with the manners or tastes of the French; to Gallicize. Burke.

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• INFECTIOUSLY
  In an infectious manner. Shak.
• 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
• FRENCH
  Of or pertaining to France or its inhabitants. French bean , the common kidney bean . -- French berry , the berry of a species of buckthorn (Rhamnus catharticus), which affords a saffron, green or purple pigment. -- French casement See French
• 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
• IMBUEMENT
  The act of imbuing; the state of being imbued; hence, a deep tincture.
• FRENCHIFY
  To make French; to infect or imbue with the manners or tastes of the French; to Gallicize. Burke.
• IMBUE
  1. To tinge deeply; to dye; to cause to absorb; as, clothes thoroughly imbued with black. 2. To tincture deply; to cause to become impressed or penetrated; as, to imbue the minds of youth with good principles. Thy words with grace divine Imbued,
• FRENCHMAN
  A native or one of the people of France.
• 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.
• GALLICIZE
  To conform to the French mode or idiom.
• INFECT
  Infected. Cf. Enfect. Shak.
• INFECTIBLE
  Capable of being infected.
• FRENCHISM
  A French mode or characteristic; an idiom peculiar to the French language. Earle.
• INFECTER
  One who, or that which, infects.
• BURKE
  1. To murder by suffocation, or so as to produce few marks of violence, for the purpose of obtaining a body to be sold for dissection. 2. To dispose of quietly or indirectly; to suppress; to smother; to shelve; as, to burke a parliamentary
• 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.