ppl. a. [UN-1 8.]
1. Not infected or tainted with sedition, heresy, vice, or the like. Also const. by, with.
1628. Le Grys, trans. Barclay’s Argenis, 88. What dost thou stay for? till there be nothing vninfected in Sicily. Art thou afraid to disturbe their scarce ripe preparations?
1678. Cudworth, Intell. Syst., I. iv. § 36. 553. Neither was Plotinus himself … altogether uninfected with this Phantastick Conceit.
a. 1715. Burnet, Own Time, II. xiii. (1897), I. 535. By this means … all the outed ministers would be … kept from going round the uninfected parts of the kingdom.
1777. Robertson, Hist. Amer., I. (1778), I. 8. Preserving them a separate people uninfected by idolatry.
1795. V. Knox, Spir. Despotism, § 29. As influence increases, the jealousy and vigilance of the uninfected part of the community should increase in proportion.
2. spec. Not infected with disease, poison, etc.
1625. K. Long, trans. Barclay’s Argenis, II. xv. 111 Let us see, quoth hee, whether the Bracelet be uninfected.
1684. J. S., Profit & Pleas. United, 16. Separating the infected, from the uninfected [cattle].
1744. Armstrong, Preserv. Health, III. 31. Serene he bears the peevish eastern blast, And uninfected breathes the mortal South.
1813. J. Thomson, Lect. Inflam., 485. If pains be taken to prevent intercourse between the infected and uninfected.
1890. Retrospect Med., CII. 292. The risk of leaving untreated a clot in the immediate neighbourhood of very virulent septic matter in the hope that it may remain uninfected.
