inficiate

present singular third person inficiates · participle present inficiating · participle past inficiated · past inficiated

1. transitiveespecially non-native speakers' EnglishTo render or demonstrate to be invalid; to invalidate or disprove.

   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 28, 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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   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

   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

   Synonyms: invalidate, disprove