Infame 
fame, < inf amis, of ill fame: see infame, a., in- 
famous.] To reproach; censure; defame. 
Yet bicause he was cruell by nature, he was infamed by 
writers. llolinshed, Chron., I. 8. 
Livia is infamed for the poisoning of her husband. 
Bacon, Empire (ed. 1887). 
Hitherto obscured, infamed, 
And thy fair fruit let hang, as to no end 
Created. Milton, P. L., ix. 797. 
infamed (in-famd'), p. a. Defamed or dis- 
graced: specifically applied in heraldry to a 
lion or other beast shown without a tail, 
infamize (in'fa-inlz), v. t.; pret. and pp. infa- 
mized, ppr. infamizing. [< infame, a., + -ize.] 
To make infamous ; defame. [Bare.] 
With scornful! laughter (grace-less) thus began 
To infamize the poor old drunken man. 
Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, ii., The Ark. 
Is some knot of riotous slanderers leagued 
To infamize the name of the king's brother? 
Coleridge, Zapolya, i. 1. 
infamonizet (in-fam'o-mz), v. t. A perverse ex- 
tension of infamize. [Ludicrous.] 
Dost thou infamonize me among potentates? thou shall 
die. Shak., L. L. L., v. 2. 
infamort, . [< infame, >., + -or.] One who 
brings infamy or disgrace. 
Nor Rome shall not repute theim as hir naturall chil- 
dren, but as cruell enemies ; and not for augmentours of 
the commonwelth, but infamours and robbers of clem- 
ency. Golden Book, xi. 
infamous (in'fa-mus, formerly also in-fa'mus), 
a. [< OF. infameux, < ML. infamosus, equiv. 
L. infamis, of ill fame, ill spoken of: see in- 
fame, a., famous.] 1. Of ill fame; famous or 
noted for badness of any kind ; notoriously evil ; 
of vile character or quality; odious; detestable: 
applied to persons or things. 
Is it not pity, I should lose my life 
By such a bloody and infamous stroake? 
Chapman, Byron's Tragedy, v. 1. 
We had a very infamous wretched lodging. 
Evelyn, Diary, March 23, 1646. 
As the Christians are worse here than in any other parts, 
so also the Turks indulge those vices here to the highest de- 
gree for which they are generally infamous; with many of 
them, drinking wine takes the place of opium ; but they are 
secret in this practice. 
Pococke, Description of the East, II. 125. 
The islanders, however, were not alone guilty of this in- 
famous trade in men. Howells, Venetian Life, xvi. 
After all, perhaps, the next best thing to being famous 
or infamous is to be utterly forgotten, for this also is to 
achieve a kind of definite result by living. 
Lowell, Study Windows, p. 347. 
2. Involving or attributing infamy ; branded, 
or that brands, with infamy: as, an infamous 
crime ; infamous punishment. 
Infamous punishments are mismanaged in this country, 
with respect both to the crimes and the criminals. 
Paley, Moral PhUos., vi. 9. 
Infamous crime or offense, in law : (a) In the common- 
law rule of evidence disqualifying convicts to testify as 
witnesses or serve as jurors, an offense a conviction of 
which would at common law disqualify the person as a 
witness or juror, because creating a strong presumption 
against truthfulness ; in general, an offense punishable in 
a state prison, (b) In the constitutional provision that no 
one can be held to answer for an infamous offense without 
presentment or indictment by grand jury, a crime punish- 
able capitally or by imprisonment in a state prison or peni- 
tentiary, with or without hard labor. In this sense re- 
stricted by some authorities to those offenses which in- 
volve falsehood and are calculated to affect injuriously the 
public administration of justice. = Syn. 1. Wicked, Hei- 
nous, etc. (see atrocious); disgraceful, shameful, grossly 
dishonorable, nefarious, execrable, ignominious. 
infamously (in'fa-mus-li), adv. In an infamous 
manner or degree; odiously; scandalously; dis- 
gracefully. 
Now was the time to unlock the sealed fountain of 
royal bounty which had been infamously monopolized and 
huckstered. Burke, Present Discontents. 
infamousness (in'fa-mus-nes), . The condi- 
tion, quality, or character of being infamous ; 
infamy. Bailey, 1727. 
infamy (in 'fa-mi), n. [= F. infamie, OF. in- 
fame = Pr. Sp. Pg. It. infamia, < L. infamia, 
ill fame, < infamis, of ill fame : see infame, a., 
infamous.] 1. Evil fame; public reproach or 
disgrace ; scandalous repute. 
Fie, what dishonour seek ye ! what black infamy ! 
Fletcher, Loyal Subject^ v. 8. 
Wilful perpetrations of unworthy actions brand with 
most indelible characters of infamy the name and mem- 
ory to posterity. Eikon Basilike. 
2. Infamous character; disgracefulness; scan- 
dalousness ; extreme baseness or vileness : as, 
the infamy of an action. 3. In law, the pub- 
lic disgrace or loss of character incurred by 
conviction of an infamous offense. See infa- 
mous. =Syn. 1. Obloquy, Opprobrium, etc. (see ignominy), 
dishonor. 2. Wickedness, atrocity, villainy, shame-fulness. 
See atrocious. 
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infantry 
'fon ail M F F piifanre Srj 
fan-si), n. L . *. eiya ce 
Our humble petition to your honors ... is, that you 
^ leaaec f to con t in ue your favorable aspect upon 
Pg. infanwa = It. infanzia, < L,. mjantia, in- these ' illfaut pi., n t a ti,m s . 
ability to speak, infancy, < infan(t-)s, unable winthny, Hist. New England, II. 363. 
' If. Inabil- 
to speak, an infant: see infant.'} f. na- Shall I shriek if a Hungary fail? 
ity to speak distinctly ; want of utterance ; ver- or an infant civilisation be ruled with rod or with knout ? 
bal hesitation. Tennyson, Maud, iv. 
[< F. enfanter = Pr. eii- 
bal hesitation. 
So darkly do the Saxon Annals deliver their meaning infantt (in'fant), v. t. 
, . . . 
with more than wonted infancy. jtfitton, Hist. Eng.,v. j antor> e ff a ntai; efantar = It. infantare, bring 
2. The state of being an infant; the earliest f or th, < LL. infantare, nourish as an infant 
period of life, in formal classification reckoned 
as extending to the seventh year, but commonly 
or popularly as including only about two years, 
or the time of teething, after which childhood 
begins. 
Great God, which hast this World's Birth made me see, 
Vnfold his Cradle, shew his Infancy. 
Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, ii., Eden. 
The Babe yet lies in smiling infancy. 
Milton, Nativity, 1. 161. 
Heaven lies about us in our infancy. 
Wordsworth, Immortality, st 5. 
3. In common law, the period of a person's life 
< L. infan(t-)s, an infant: see infant, .] To 
bring forth as an infant; hence, to give origin 
or rise to. 
But newly he was infanted, 
And yet already he was sought to die. 
G. Fletcher, Christ's Victory in Heaven. 
If we imagine that all the godly Ministers of England 
are not able to new mould a better and more pious Liturgy 
then this which was conceav d and infanted by an idola- 
trous Mother, how basely were that to esteeme of Gods 
Spirit! Hilton, Apology for Smectymuuus. 
Have not I invention afore him? learning to better that 
invention above him ? and infanted with pleasant travel ? 
B. Jonson, Cynthia's Revels, iv. 1. 
[Sp. Pg.,fem. of infante: 
ish or Portuguese princess 
of the royal blood. See infante. 
infante (in-fan'te), n. [Sp. Pg., an infant, 
in the history, existence, or development of a 
SiSS^ 
r> D ^^. o thoi'n/VrB/.unftliRwr.rlfh thftinfanm cf. c/jwd, n., S.J A son ot a bpamsn or ror 
guese sovereign; m specific use as a title, a 
younger prince of the royal blood. The oldest son 
or heir apparent in Spain is called Prince of Asturias, and 
Ui. < I1I1LII1VUH , UUV inav Vfa*', w^giiillilif^, "* V l***J 
period: as, the infancy ot the world; tbeinfancy 
of an institution or an art. 
The difference between the riches of Roman citizens in 
the infanc;/ and in the grandeur of Rome will appear by 
comparing the first valuation of estates with the estates 
afterwards possessed. Arbuthnot, Weights and Measures, 
infandoust (in-fan'dus), a. [< L. infandus, un- 
the heir apparent of Portugal was called Prince of Brazil 
The state of be i nf? an infant ; infancy. 
England lately more than anywhere else. 
Howell, Letters (10th ed.), I. v. 11. 
infangtheft (in'fang-thef), n. [ME. (ML.), 
repr. AS. infangenetheof, < infangen, pp. of in- 
fon, onfon, seize (< in, o on + /o, pp. fong- .^ on , e thejr own lnfanti 
, seize : see fang), + theof, thief. Cf . outfang- Chritophalgia (1680), p. 52. 
= Sp. Pg. 
one who kills an infant, < infa(t-)s, an infant, 
+ -cida, < caidere, kill.] One who kills an in- 
fant. 
Christians accounted those to be infanticides . . . who 
mej.\ noianmj.iaw,iii u infanticide 2 (in-fan'ti-sid), . [= F. infanti- 
of a manor to sit in judgment upon thieves ^"^pg. it. infanticidio, < LL. infantici- 
**"' "" *"" mBT1 " r dium, the killing of an infant, < L. infan(t-).-.; 
an infant, + -cidium,<.c<edere, kill.] The killing 
of an infant ; specifically, the destruction of a 
child, whether newly born, in the course of par- 
turition, or still in utero; child-murder. In Chris- 
tian and Hebrew communities infanticide has always been 
regarded as not less criminal than any other kind of mur- 
.ler ; but in most others, in both ancient and modern times. 
taken on his manor. 
They shall haue Infangthefe, and that they shall be 
wreckefree, lastagefree, and louecopfree. 
Charter granted by Edw. I. to liarons of the Cinque Fortes, 
[quoted in Hakluyt's Voyages, I. 117. 
In 20 Edward I. (1292), the prior of Kertmel was called, 
on a Quo Warranto, to show his right to have sheriff's turn, 
assize of bread and beer, wreck of sea, waif, infangenthef, 
to hold pleas of withernam, in Kertmel in Furneys, and to 
be exempt for himself and men from fines and amercia- 
ments, and from suit and service to county and wapen- 
take. Quoted in Barnes's Hist. Lancashire, II. 678. 
infant (in'fant), n. and a. [= F. enfant, OF. 
enfant (> ul't. ME. fount) = Pr. enfan, effan, 
efan = Sp. Pg. It. infante, < L. infan(t-)s, a 
child that cannot yet speak, an infant, prop. 
adj., not speaking, < in- priv. + fa/i(t-)s, ppr. 
of /art, speak: see fable.] I. w. 1. A child 
during the earliest period of its life ; a young 
child. See infancy. 
And the stretis of the citee schulen be flllid with in- 
it has been practised and regarded as even excusable, 
and in some enjoined and legally performed, as in cases 
of congenital weakness or deformity among some of the 
communities of ancient Greece. 
Infanticide, as is well known, was . . . admitted among 
the Greeks, being sanctioned, and in some cases enjoined, 
upon what we should now call " the greatest happiness 
principle," by the ideal legislations of Plato and Aristotle, 
and by the actual legislations of Lycurgus and Solon. 
Lecky, Europ. Morals, II. 27. 
Though among the Tasmanians the paternal instinct is 
described as having been strong, yet there was infanticide, 
and a new-born infant was buried along with its deceased 
mother. //. Spencer, Prin. of Sociol., 87. 
fauntis and maydens pleynge in the stretis of it. 
Wyclif, Pistil on the II<J Wednesday of Advent, Zech. viii. infantile (in fan-til or -til), rt.. 
From fields of death when late he shall retire, 
No infant on his knees shall call him sire. 
Pope, Iliad, v. 498. 
2. In law, a person who is not of full age ; spe- 
cifically (in Great Britain, the United States, 
etc.), one who has not attained the age of twen- 
ty-one years. Technically, by an application of the old 
rule that the law does not regard fractions of a day, it has 
been settled that a person becomes of age at the beginning 
of the last day of the twenty-first year. See age, n., 3. 
3f. A noble youth. See child, n., 8. 
The Infant [Arthur] hearkned wisely to her tale. 
Spenser, F. Q., VI. viii. 25. 
The noble infant [Rinaldo] stood a space 
Confused, speechless. 
Fairfax, tr. of Tasso, xvi. 34. 
v [= Sp. Pg. iii- 
fan til = It. infantile, < L. infantilis, of or be- 
longing to infants, < infan(t-)s, an infant: see 
infant.] 1. Of or belonging to infants or little 
children ; pertaining to or characteristic of in- 
fancy or an infant. 
The file lies all the winter in these balls in its infantile 
state, and comes not to its maturity till the following 
spring. Derham, Physico-Theology, viii. 6. 
2. Of the character of an infant ; infant-like. 
The children at any age, however incapable of choice 
in other respects, however immature, or even infantile, 
are yet considered sufficiently capable to disinherit their 
parents. Burke, Popery Laws. 
Hectic Infantile fever, infantile remittent fever. 
See /ewri. Infantile paralysis. Seeparalyxis. =Syn. 
Infantine, etc. See chudlike. 
Infant-class, infant-school, a class of or school for in infontinp fin'fnn tin or -tin) a IX infant + 
fants or young children, usually under seven years of age. iniantine (m Ian-tin or Tin;, a. |> JJ 
II. a. 1. Of, pertaining to, characterized by, **] Same as MfanMe. 
or characteristic of infancy; hence, tender: The sole comfort of his declining years, almost in in/on- 
infantile; incipient: as, infant beauty; infant imbecility. Burke, Marriage Act. 
fortunes. 2. Of or pertaining to the legal state infantlyt (in'fant-li),a. [< [infant + -ly 1 .] In- 
of infancy; minor. fant-like ; infantile; childish. 
A very important part of the law of infancy ... is that He utters such single matter in so infantly a voice, 
which determines the obligation of the parents in respect Fletcher (and another), Queen of Corinth, iii. 1. 
to infant children. Amer. Cyc., IX. 267. tt -m . , o 
3. Figuratively, not yet fully grown; still in infantry, (m'fan-tri), n. [<F. ,nj,inty;c, < Sp. 
an early stage of development or growth: as, l'y?_"T.'f n; '"?* "L" -":.!" J """"":J"": 
infant colonies; an infant bud. 
Within the infant rind of this weak flower 
Poison hath residence, and medicine power. 
Shak., R. and .'., ii. .'<. 
teria, infantry; < Sp. Pg. infinite = It. infant', 
fantc, a young person, a foot-soldier (orig. ap- 
par. a page to a knight: see infant, n., 3), < L. 
infan(t-)s, an infant: see infant.] 1. Soldiery 
