Definition of Infract
1. Verb. Act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises. "Break a promise"
Generic synonyms: Disrespect
Specialized synonyms: Sin, Transgress, Trespass, Blunder, Boob, Drop The Ball, Goof, Sin, Conflict, Contravene, Infringe, Run Afoul, Trespass, Intrude, Trespass
Derivative terms: Breach, Infraction, Offence, Offender, Offense, Offensive, Offensive, Transgression, Transgressor, Violable, Violative, Violator
Antonyms: Keep
Definition of Infract
1. a. Not broken or fractured; unharmed; whole.
2. v. t. To break; to infringe.
Definition of Infract
1. to break a legal rule [v -ED, -ING, -S]
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Literary usage of Infract
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1. A dictionary of the Spanish and English languages, orig. compiled by Neuman by Henry Neuman, Giuseppe Marc' Antonio Baretti (1862)
"Applied to any of the ых days within the eight-day festival. Infringir, va.
To infringe, to violate or to break ; to infract ..."
2. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"See NED infract. To infringe on, to break. 1798 I think every nation has a right
to establish that form of Government under which it conceives it shall live ..."
3. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1901)
"infract, adj. Unbroken, or unbreakable. One sense of the Latin infractus. ...
Had Ia brazen throat, a voice infract, A thousand tongues, and rarest words ..."
4. An Elementary Latin Dictionary by Charlton Thomas Lewis, Hugh Macmaster Kingery (1918)
"... L. : oratio, L. : fama, injured, V. : Latini, broken, V.—Of speech : infract»
et amputata toqui, ... bruise on the threshold, H.: infract us ..."
5. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares (1859)
"infract, adj. ... U how straight and infract is this line of lile 1 liad Ia brazen
throat, a voice in/Air/, ..."
6. State Papers and Publick Documents of the United States, from the Accession by United States President, United States Dept. of State (1819)
"... viz. that the provisions of the decree in question do not infract any of the
rights-of commerce, stipulated by treaty between France and the United ..."
7. Precedents of Indictments and Pleas: Adapted to the Use of Both of the by Francis Wharton (1881)
"That the said AB, late of, etc., heretofore, on, etc., at, etc., and within the
jurisdiction of this court, with force and arms, did infract the law of ..."
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