Dis`in*fect" (?), v. t. [imp. &
p. p. Disinfected; p. pr. & vb. n.
Disinfecting.] To free from infectious or contagious
matter; to destroy putrefaction; to purify; to make
innocuous.
When the infectious matter and the infectious matter
and the odoriferous matter are one . . . then to deodorize is to
disinfect.
Ure.