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Hitherto obfcur’d, infaitid, 
And thy fair fruit let hang, as to no end 
Created. Mitten. 
IN'FAkOUS, adj. [ infame , Fr. inf amis, Lat.] Publicly 
branded with guilt; openly cenfured; of bad. report.— 
Thofe that be near, and thofe that be far from thee, fhall 
mock thee, which art infamous. Ezek. —Sometimes by old 
writers accented on the lecond fyliable : 
Thefe are as fome infamous bawd or whore 
Should praife a matron; what could hurt her more ? B.Jonfon. 
IN FAMOUSLY, adv. With open reproach ; with pub¬ 
lic notoriety of reproach. Shamefully ; fcandaloufly.— 
That poem was infamoufy bad. Dryden. 
IN'FAMOUSNESS, f. Infamy; the ftate of being in¬ 
famous. Scott. 
IN'FAMY, /. \infatnie , Fr. infamia, Lat.] Public re¬ 
proach ; notoriety of bad character.—Ye are taken up in 
the lips of talker?, and are the infamy of the people. 
Ezek. xxxvi. 3. 
The noble ide doth want her proper limbs; 
Her face defac’d with fears of infamy. Shakefpearc. 
Infamy, in law, is a penalty which attaches to forgery, 
perjury, grots cheats, and difables a man to be a witnefs 
or juror; but a pardon of crimes reftores a perfon’s cre¬ 
dit to make him a good evidence. 2 Hazvk. P. C. c. 4.6. 
Judgment of the pillory induces infamy by the common 
law; but, by the civil and canon law, if the caufe for which 
the perlon was convicted was not infamous, it infers no 
infamy. 3 Lev. 4.26. 
IN'FANCY, f. \infantia, Lat.] The firft part of life. 
Ufbally extended by naturaliits to feven years.—Dare we 
affirm it w^S ever his meaning, that unto their falvation, 
who even from their tender infancy never knew any other 
faith or religion than only Chriftian, no kind of teaching 
can be available, faving that which was fo needful for the 
firft univerfal converfion of Gentiles, hating Chriltianity ? 
Hooker. 
Pirithous came U attend 
This worthy Tliefeus, his familiar friend: 
Their love in early infancy began, 
And rofe as childhood ripen’d into man. Dryden. 
Civil infancy, extended by the Engliffi law to one-and- 
twenty years, Firft age of any thing; beginning; origi¬ 
nal ; commencement: 
In Spain our fprings, like old men’s children, be 
Decay’d and wither’d from their infancy. Dryden. 
INFAN'DOUS, adj. [from in, Lat. contrary to, and 
fandus, to be told.] Wicked beyond defeription. Not ufed. 
Cole. 
INFAN'DRIA, a town on the weft coaft of the ifland 
■of Madagafcar : twenty miles fouth of Cape St. Sebaftian. 
IN'FANGTHEF, or Infangenetheof, f. [from the 
Sax. pang or pangen, to catch, and theop, a thief.] A 
privilege or liberty granted unto lords of certain manors, 
• to judge any thief taken within their fee. BraEl. lib. 3. c. 
35. In fome ancient charters it appears that the thief 
fhould be taken in the lordffiip, and with the goods ftolen, 
otherwile the lord had not jurifdidtiori to try him in his 
court; though by the laws of Edward the ConfefTor he 
was not reftrained to his own people or tenants, but might 
try any man who was thus taken in his manor. The 
franehifes of infangt kef and outfangthef, to be heard and 
determined in court-barons, are antiquated, and long 
ft nee gone. 2 Inf. 31. The word is fometimes preceded 
by an H. 
IN'FANT, /. [« non fando, from its inability to talk.] 
A young child. Fred. Hoffman limits the period of in¬ 
fancy to the time when children begin to talk, and that 
pf childhood to the age of puberty.—-There ffiall be no 
more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that hath 
not tilled his days. I/a. lxv, to. ' 
INF 
Young mothers wildly ftare, with fear polfeft, 
And (train their helplefs infants to their breaft. Dry deft. 
For the treatment of the new-born infant, fee the arti¬ 
cle Parturition. Infants, among the Jews, Greeks, 
and Romans, were fwaddled as foon as they were born, in 
a manner fimilar to that praftifed by the moderns. The 
Jews circumcifed and named their infant children on the 
eighth day from the birth. Upon the birth of a fon, the 
Grecians crowned their doors with olive ; of a daughter, 
with w'ool. The infant was wafhed in warm water, and 
anointed with oil ; by the Spartans with wine ; it was 
then dreffed, and laid in a bafleet, or on a thield if the fa¬ 
ther was a warrior, particularly amongft the Spartans', 
At live days old they ran with it round the fire, and the 
mother’s relations fent prefents. The Greeks named their 
children on the tenth day, the Romans on the ninth: the 
naming was attended with facrifices and other demon- 
ftrations of joy. The maternal office of fuckling their 
own children was never declined, when circumftances 
would permif. (How different is this from the unna¬ 
tural delicacy of modem mothers, a delicacy which to the 
child ^ is cruelty!) The fortieth day was a day of fo- 
lemnity for the mother. The names of children were re¬ 
gistered both by the Greeks and Romans. For an account 
of the cuftom of expofmg infants, fee vol. vii. p. 131. In¬ 
fants were kept from crying in the ftreets by means'of a 
fponge foaked in honey. Nurfes had alfo their bugbears 
and terrible names to frighten the children into peace : 
the figure with which they were principally intimidated 
was Mog/j.oyvy.eiov, a fort of rawhead and bloody-bones. 
The general management of the infant ftate is directed 
too frequently by faffiion, or rather by caprice. The little 
being, w hen firft introduced to this world, is brought from 
a temperature of at leaft 96°, and fliouid therefore be 
cautioully guarded againft fudden expofure to *the air. 
His clothing ffiould be light and eafy; and at firft, warm. 
The tender Ikin would be chafed with flannel, and there¬ 
fore old linen is preferred ; calico wmuld be ftill better ; 
but the whole mull be covered with flannel, and fattened, 
as much as poffible, by firings. For a long time, cold 
excites uneafy fenfations, and he is properly placed clofe 
to the mother ; by her fide, or that of a healthy nurfe, lie 
ffiould lie till at leaft he has lived twelve months; but 
modern refinement, or modern appVehenfions, place him 
alone in a crib by the fide of the bed. Oh this fubjeft 
we can only oblerve, that infants, thus feparated from the 
warm bofom, in general increafe fowly, are weak and de¬ 
licate ; while thole with a nurfe, if not the mother, have 
appeared thriving and happy. 
A child ffiould not be accuftomed to take its food at 
diftant intervals. Digeftion in children is rapid ; and, if 
food be delayed, the child is uneafy; and, when brought, 
takes it greedily and too copioufly. 
A healthy child fcarcely ever cries ; but a child is faid 
to be peevilh, fretful, and uneafy, when the nurfe is care- 
lefs and inattentive. Difpofitions undoubtedly differ; 
but the parent who finds a child conftantly crying, ffiould 
fufpeft her nurfe, and even lierfelf. One caule of this 
fretfulnefs is the opinion that tffe nurfe knows when the 
child ffiould fleep, or eat, better than itfelf. It is forced 
to feed when not hungry, and to lleep when eager for 
play or amulfement. You may often cure this difeafe, by 
correcting the attendant. It indeed happens that fome 
children will not fleep by night, but even this may be 
conquered by management; for the healthy child may be 
amuled during the day, and his amulements may be gra¬ 
dually protracted till night approaches. A healthy infant 
is fond of exercife. He ffiould be moved gently up and 
down, but without any fliocks. On this account the mo¬ 
dern cot is preferable to the cradle; for the child may be 
ffiaken by the latter into a ftupor, which a nurfe will take 
care to do, as it faves her the trouble of attending to the 
infant’s play. In carrying the child, great inconveni- 
encies arile from compreffing the breaft. The child fits 
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