infant

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A very young human being, from birth to somewhere between six months and two years of age…

   A very young human being, from birth to somewhere between six months and two years of age after birth, needing almost constant care and attention.

2. 2

   A minor.

   • Thomas Humphrey Doleman died the 30th of August 1712, an infant, intestate and without issue; Lewis the next nephew died the 17th of April 1716, an infant about sixteen years old, having left his mother Mary Webb, ...
3. 3

   A student in an infant school or the first part of a primary school.

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   1. 4

      A noble or aristocratic youth.

      • Retourned home, the royall Infant fell / Into her former fitt [...].
   2. 5

      Of or pertaining to the earlier half of primary school education.

      • Primary schooling in Ireland comprises two Infant years, which are equivalent to pre-school in other countries , and six grades or classes.
      • Clearly, from the attention given to it, HMI believed that history should be part of the infant curriculum.
   3. 6

      small, being near its source.

      • Leaving Nantyglo, a small station at an altitude of 1,030 ft. with the platform on the eastern side, the train runs northwards over former G.W.R. metals, with the infant River Ebbw, a little more than a yard wide, on the west.
   4. 7

      To bear or bring forth (a child)

      To bear or bring forth (a child); to produce, in general.

      • This worthy motto, "No bishop, no king," is […] infanted out of the same fears.

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