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from The Century Dictionary.

  • In zoology, bent suddenly inward, as if partly broken; geniculate.

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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of infract.

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  • What better nature study than right here at Mexico´s largest natural (or unnatural for that matter) lake and I have this endlessly interesting natural habitat just about all to myself free-of-charge and sitting on my exclusive bench overlooking the inland sea charming in the infracted fall light and churned up by October and November breezes and I wish to thank the Chapala municipal government for this windfall.

    Tha New Ajijic Malecon 2009

  • What better nature study than right here at Mexico´s largest natural (or unnatural for that matter) lake and I have this endlessly interesting natural habitat just about all to myself free-of-charge and sitting on my exclusive bench overlooking the inland sea charming in the infracted fall light and churned up by October and November breezes and I wish to thank the Chapala municipal government for this windfall.

    Tha New Ajijic Malecon 2009

  • What better nature study than right here at Mexico´s largest natural (or unnatural for that matter) lake and I have this endlessly interesting natural habitat just about all to myself free-of-charge and sitting on my exclusive bench overlooking the inland sea charming in the infracted fall light and churned up by October and November breezes and I wish to thank the Chapala municipal government for this windfall.

    Tha New Ajijic Malecon 2009

  • It keeps giving readers the idea that we use automated content-based message filtering, and that something they've written has infracted the filters 'rules.

    Boing Boing 2008

  • There was a retributive justice for all those who infracted the rules of the game.

    'Firebrand' Trevison Charles Alden Seltzer 1908

  • The spirit and intention of the law of God, yea, of all law, requires a suitable confession on the part of all those who have infracted its precepts: honor, truth, justice, demand it.

    Confession a Fundamental Doctrine of the Gospel Economy: William Calmes 1872

  • It is due to the South; it is due to the Constitution, heretofore palpably infracted; it is due to that character for consistency which I have heretofore labored to maintain.

    Abraham Lincoln: a History — Volume 01 John Hay 1870

  • Union, their constitutions are untouched, their State governments are maintained, their citizens are entitled to all political rights, except so far as they may be deprived of them by the criminal law which they have infracted.

    American Eloquence, Volume 4 Studies In American Political History (1897) Various 1869

  • But then the king was in the wrong too, for, since the laws against this toleration stood enacted by the consent and concurrence of his predecessors, he should not have allowed them to be infracted and virtually annulled through the influence of a foreign bride and an unworthy favorite.

    Charles I Makers of History Jacob Abbott 1841

  • I found it necessary, at length, to yield my own opinion, to the general sense of the national council, and it really seemed to produce a jubilee among them; not from any want of confidence in you, but from a belief in the effect which an extraordinary mission would have on the British mind, by demonstrating the degree of importance which this country attached to the rights which we considered as infracted.

    Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4 Thomas Jefferson 1784

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