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noun

Infant n.

A child in the first period of life, beginning at his birth; a young babe; sometimes, a child several years of age. "And tender cries of infants pierce the ear."

(Law) A person who is not of full age, or who has not attained the age of legal capacity; a person under the age of twenty-one years; a minor. Note: An infant under seven years of age is not penally responsible; between seven and fourteen years of age, he may be convicted of a malicious offense if malice be proved. He becomes of age on the day preceding his twenty-first birthday, previous to which time an infant has no capacity to contract.

Same as Infante. (Obs.)

verb

Infant v. t. To bear or bring forth, as a child; hence, to produce, in general. (Obs.) "This worthy motto, "No bishop, no king," is... infanted out of the same fears."

adjective

Infant adj.

Of or pertaining to infancy, or the first period of life; tender; not mature; as, infant strength.

Intended for young children; as, an infant school.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Infant" Quotes from Famous Books

... one day, and three on the day following. This primitive waggon-way passed, as before stated, close in front of the cottage in which George Stephenson was born; and one of the earliest sights which met his infant eyes was this ...

— Lives of the Engineers - The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson • Samuel Smiles

... bewildering and diverse nature. Some of the most eminent surgeons in Liverpool were examined, and none of them agreed on the case. This fact came out that no signs of childbirth were visible as having taken place—no dead infant was discovered. The room in which Miss Burns and Mr. Angus were, was at all times accessible to the servants, and no cries of parturition were heard during the lady's illness. The fact of the matter was, Miss Burns had suffered from an internal complaint, and ...

— Recollections of Old Liverpool • A Nonagenarian

... one year, was formally opened April 21st, the day being set apart for prayer and praise. The public generally were informed that the way was open to receive needy applicants, and the intimation was further made on May 18th that it was intended shortly to open a second house for infant ...

— George Muller of Bristol - His Witness to a Prayer-Hearing God • Arthur T. Pierson

... of the claims of the play are ought to have struck even the unscientific audience. The real centre of the so-called drama is that the father and the grandmother of the diseased infant are willing to risk the health of the wet nurse rather than to allow the child to go over to artificial feeding. The whole play loses its chief point and its greatest pathetic speech if we do not accept the Parisian view that a sickly child must die if it has its milk from ...

— Psychology and Social Sanity • Hugo Muensterberg

... he will be a year from now. At present he is mostly hands and feet, and his face shows a marked nasal development. Before Philip has completed his junior year, the rest of his features will have reasserted themselves, and the harmony of lineament which was his when he was an infant, as his mother never tires of regretfully recalling, will be restored. Until that time Philip must be content to carry the suggestion of an attractive and ...

— The Patient Observer - And His Friends • Simeon Strunsky

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