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Contagion (n.)

That which serves as a medium or agency to transmit disease; a virus produced by, or exhalation proceeding from, a diseased person, and capable of reproducing the disease.

Contagion (n.)

The act or means of communicating any influence to the mind or heart; as, the contagion of enthusiasm.

Contagion (n.)

Venom; poison.

Contagioned (a.)

Affected by contagion.

Contagionist (n.)

One who believes in the contagious character of certain diseases, as of yellow fever.

Contagious (a.)

Communicable by contact, by a virus, or by a bodily exhalation; catching; as, a contagious disease.

Contagious (a.)

Conveying or generating disease; pestilential; poisonous; as, contagious air.

Contagious (a.)

Spreading or communicable from one to another; exciting similar emotions or conduct in others.

Contagiously (adv.)

In a contagious manner.

Contagiousness (n.)

Quality of being contagious.

Contagium (n.)

Contagion; contagious matter.

Contain (v. t.)

To hold within fixed limits; to comprise; to include; to inclose; to hold.

Contain (v. t.)

To have capacity for; to be able to hold; to hold; to be equivalent to; as, a bushel contains four pecks.

Contain (v. t.)

To put constraint upon; to restrain; to confine; to keep within bounds.

Contain (v. i.)

To restrain desire; to live in continence or chastity.

Containable (a.)

Capable of being contained or comprised.

Containant (n.)

A container.

Contained (imp. & p. p.)

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Container (n.)

One who, or that which, contains.

Containing (p. pr. & vb. n.)

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