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- verb Past participle of
infeoff
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Examples
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Wolves are the chief beafts of prey that infeft Spain.
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Crocodiles, of an aitonifliing Cze, infeft the banks of the rivers, devowinir I'uch lieafts as fall in their way; and men are protected from their fury by no other method than carrying torr hes: they have even been known, in the night« to feise people in their boats.
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A multitude ot noxious animals infeft the country: adders, fna ices, fcorpions, rand toads, are the conftant inhabitants of the fields, gardens, and hoafes; the air
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In the middle country a fourth or fifth part of them may have fuch firelocks as they had provided to deflroy the noxious animals whicli infeft their farms; and on the weftern fide of the Blue Ridge they arc generally armed with rifles.
An historical, geographical, commercial, and philosophical view of the United States of America, and of the European settlements in America and the West-Indies Winterbotham, William, 1763-1829. cn 1796
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Sometimes the plant be - comes dry, and is deftroyed by another very common infeft; at other times, the leaves, which arc the valuable part of the plant, are devoured in the Ipace of tvvcnty-iour hours by catcrpillers.
An historical, geographical, commercial, and philosophical view of the United States of America, and of the European settlements in America and the West-Indies Winterbotham, William, 1763-1829. cn 1796
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Every part of the creation ferves under hira, and he can com million a gnat, or a %, or the meancft infeft, to be the executioner of his enemies.
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Jlhents to Amphion and Zethus, a bpil being heated by T thealUxftriotus ppwer of the fun then beware of a fnalady of no trifling nature, whidi fiiall infeft the city.
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This contaft conftituting, as has been juft obferved, the matrix by which the infeft is produced, the embryo barnacle fettled on the m plank, and nourifhed either by the plank, or the water, or both, remains ftationary;
An Attempt to Promote the Commercial Interests of Great Britain William Langworthy 1793
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The variety of fruits, flowers, and birds, of which I had a tranfient view in this magnificent gar - den, would have fupplied a naturalift with amufement for a month; but I faw no remark - able infeft, and no reptile of any kind.
Dissertations and Miscellaneous Pieces Relating to the History and Antiquities, the Arts ... William Jones, Warren Hastings, William Chambers 1792
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Semina fubrotundo-reniformia, nauco fragili nitenti te of a much larger fize than any of the others: they are placed in fuch a manner that the points of the teeth of one range look exadlly contrary to thofe of the other; and by this means muft enable the infeft to commit the moft fevere depredations on fuch animals as are its deftined food.
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