Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to inficiate
Participle: inficiated
Gerund: inficiating
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | inficiate |
| you | inficiate |
| he;she;it | inficiates |
| we | inficiate |
| you | inficiate |
| they | inficiate |
Perfect
| I | have inficiated |
| you | have inficiated |
| he;she;it | has inficiated |
| we | have inficiated |
| you | have inficiated |
| they | have inficiated |
Past
| I | inficiated |
| you | inficiated |
| he;she;it | inficiated |
| we | inficiated |
| you | inficiated |
| they | inficiated |
Pluperfect
| I | had inficiated |
| you | had inficiated |
| he;she;it | had inficiated |
| we | had inficiated |
| you | had inficiated |
| they | had inficiated |
Future
| I | will inficiate |
| you | will inficiate |
| he;she;it | will inficiate |
| we | will inficiate |
| you | will inficiate |
| they | will inficiate |
Future Perfect
| I | will have inficiated |
| you | will have inficiated |
| he;she;it | will have inficiated |
| we | will have inficiated |
| you | will have inficiated |
| they | will have inficiated |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | inficiate |
| you | inficiate |
| he;she;it | inficiate |
| we | inficiate |
| you | inficiate |
| they | inficiate |
Perfect
| I | have inficiated |
| you | have inficiated |
| he;she;it | have inficiated |
| we | have inficiated |
| you | have inficiated |
| they | have inficiated |
Imperfect
| I | inficiated |
| you | inficiated |
| he;she;it | inficiated |
| we | inficiated |
| you | inficiated |
| they | inficiated |
Pluperfect
| I | had inficiated |
| you | had inficiated |
| he;she;it | had inficiated |
| we | had inficiated |
| you | had inficiated |
| they | had inficiated |
Conditional
Present
| I | would inficiate |
| you | would inficiate |
| he;she;it | would inficiate |
| we | would inficiate |
| you | would inficiate |
| they | would inficiate |
Perfect
| I | would have inficiated |
| you | would have inficiated |
| he;she;it | would have inficiated |
| we | would have inficiated |
| you | would have inficiated |
| they | would have inficiated |
Imperative
| you | inficiate |
| we | Let's inficiate |
| you | inficiate |
Verbs conjugated like 'inficiate'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'inficiate'
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. Borrowed from Italian inficiare + English -ate (suffix forming verbs), from Medieval Latin īnficior, alteration of Classical Latin īnfitior (“to deny, contradict”), from *īnfitiae (“denial”) (see īnfitiās eō), from fateor (“to admit, acknowledge”).
2. Presumably originally a mistranslation by Italian speakers; compare aprimorate (“to elevate, improve”), taken from Portuguese in a similar manner.
3. Earlier mentions of the word in Randle Cotgrave and Henry Cockeram's Early Modern English dictionaries are likely unconnected to the modern borrowing from Italian. See: Italian '
inficiare'.
Sample Sentences
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This logical contradiction which therefore inficiates the validity of a notion can have two aspects: either the notion reached by our argument is uncertain, that is it is not the only one which may be derived as a conclusion from our syllogism and then we have the aniścita or it is a petitio principi^([sic]), the sādhyasama. [1930, G[iuseppe] Tucci, “The Beginning of Buddhist Logic”, in On Some Aspects of the Doctrines of Māitreya [Nātha] and Asanga, Calcutta: Calcutta University Press, page 69:]
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In connection with this last point it would be of interest to see if Favaroni inficiates the necessity of the sacrament of penance, and in this would be a forerunner of the lutherans^([sic]). [1958 April 26, Nicolaus Toner, “The doctrine of justification according to Augustine of Rome (Favaroni) (✝ 1443)”, in Augustiniana, volume 8, number 1/2, Augustinian Historical Institute, page 187:]
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The massive usage of the same peptide blocks in microbial and human proteomes inficiates any causal relationship(s) between sharing of microbial amino acid motifs/structures and autoimmune reactions in humans. [2012 June 1, Darja Kanduc, “Peptide cross-reactivity: the original sin of vaccines”, in Frontiers in Bioscience: Scholar Edition, volume 4, number 4, IMR Press, →DOI, →PMID, page 1395:]