Word Meanings - SPREADINGLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

, adv. Increasingly. The best times were spreadingly infected. Milton.

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• SPREADINGLY
  , adv. Increasingly. The best times were spreadingly infected. Milton.
• INFECTIOUSLY
  In an infectious manner. Shak.
• INFECTIVE
  Infectious. Beau. & Fl. True love . . . hath an infective power. Sir P. Sidney.
• TIMESERVING
  Obsequiously complying with the spirit of the times, or the humors of those in power.
• INCREASINGLY
  More and more.
• 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
• MILTONIAN
  Miltonic. Lowell.
• MILTONIC
  Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Milton, or his writings; as, Miltonic prose.
• TIMESERVER
  One who adapts his opinions and manners to the times; one who obsequiously compiles with the ruling power; -- now used only in a bad sense.
• 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.
• TIMESAVING
  Saving time; as, a timesaving expedient.
• INFECT
  Infected. Cf. Enfect. Shak.
• INFECTIBLE
  Capable of being infected.
• INFECTER
  One who, or that which, infects.
• REINFECT
  To infect again.
• BETIME; BETIMES
  1. In good season or time; before it is late; seasonably; early. To measure life learn thou betimes. Milton. To rise betimes is often harder than to do all the day's work. Barrow. 2. In a short time; soon; speedily; forth with. He tires betimes
• 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.
• SOMETIMES
  1. Formerly; sometime. That fair and warlike form In which the majesty of buried Denmark Did sometimes march. Shak. 2. At times; at intervals; now and then;occasionally. It is good that we sometimes be contradicted. Jer. Taylor. Sometimes . . .
• 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.
• HAMILTON PERIOD
  A subdivision of the Devonian system of America; -- so named from Hamilton, Madison Co., New York. It includes the Marcellus, Hamilton, and Genesee epochs or groups. See the Chart of Geology.
• OFTENTIMES
  Frequently; often; many times. Wordsworth.