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<br><span class="red_cr"><!--Start_Part-->━</span> noun (<b>ancestries</b>)<br>lineage or family descent, especially when it can be traced back over many generations<br>

<br><span class="red_cr"><!--Start_Part-->━</span> verb (<b>gravitated</b>, <b>gravitating</b>)<br><i>intrans </i><br><b><b class="r_tit_13"><!--Exp_No--><SPAN CLASS="Exp_No">1 </SPAN><!--/Exp_No--></b></b>to fall or be drawn under the force of gravity.<br><b><b class="r_tit_13"><!--Exp_No--><SPAN CLASS="Exp_No">2 </SPAN><!--/Exp_No--></b></b>to move or be drawn gradually, as if attracted by some force<br><div id="Blank_10"></div><img src="http://image.hanmail.net/hanmail/fireball/dic/2005/b_history.gif" width="27" height="18" align="absmiddle"> 17c: from GRAVITY 1.

<span class="red_cr"><!--Start_Part-->━</span> noun (<b>aristocracies</b>)<br><b><b class="r_tit_13"><!--Exp_No--><SPAN CLASS="Exp_No">1 </SPAN><!--/Exp_No--></b></b>the highest social class, usually owning land and having titles; the nobility.<br><b><b class="r_tit_13"><!--Exp_No--><SPAN CLASS="Exp_No">2 </SPAN><!--/Exp_No--></b></b><b><b class="r_tit_13"><!--Exp_No--><SPAN CLASS="Exp_No">a </SPAN><!--/Exp_No--></b></b>this class as a ruling body;<br><b><b class="r_tit_13"><!--Exp_No--><SPAN CLASS="Exp_No">b </SPAN><!--/Exp_No--></b></b>government by this class;<br><b><b class="r_tit_13"><!--Exp_No--><SPAN CLASS="Exp_No">c </SPAN><!--/Exp_No--></b></b>a country or state that is governed by this class.<div id="Blank_10"></div><img src="http://image.hanmail.net/hanmail/fireball/dic/2005/b_history.gif" width="27" height="18" align="absmiddle"> 16c: from Greek <i>aristos</i> best + -CRACY.

<br><span class="red_cr"><!--Start_Part-->━</span> adj <br>said of someone or their behaviour: aggressively and offensively self-assertive; having or showing too high an opinion of one’s own abilities or importance; impudently over-presumptive<br><div id="Blank_10"></div><img src="http://image.hanmail.net/hanmail/fireball/dic/2005/b_history.gif" width="27" height="18" align="absmiddle"> 14c: from Latin <i>arrogare</i> to claim as one’s own, from <i>rogare</i> to ask.

<br><span class="red_cr"><!--Start_Part-->━</span> adj <br><b><b class="r_tit_13"><!--Exp_No--><SPAN CLASS="Exp_No">1 </SPAN><!--/Exp_No--></b></b>(<i>especially</i> <b>immune to something</b>) having a natural resistance to or protected by <b>inoculation </b>(see INOCULATE) from (a particular disease)<br><b><b class="r_tit_13"><!--Exp_No--><SPAN CLASS="Exp_No">2 </SPAN><!--/Exp_No--></b></b>(<i>especially</i> <b>immune from something</b>) free, exempt or protected from it<br><b><b class="r_tit_13"><!--Exp_No--><SPAN CLASS="Exp_No">3 </SPAN><!--/Exp_No--></b></b>(<i>especially</i> <b>immune to something</b>) unaffected by or not susceptible to it<br><b><b class="r_tit_13"><!--Exp_No--><SPAN CLASS="Exp_No">4 </SPAN><!--/Exp_No--></b></b><i>physiol </i>relating to or concerned with producing immunity.<br><div id="Blank_10"></div><img src="http://image.hanmail.net/hanmail/fireball/dic/2005/b_history.gif" width="27" height="18" align="absmiddle"> 15c in sense 2: from Latin <i>immunis</i>, from <i>munis</i> ready to be of service.

<br><span class="red_cr"><!--Start_Part-->━</span> adj <br>feeling or showing anger or a sense of having been treated unjustly or wrongly<br><div id="Blank_10"></div><img src="http://image.hanmail.net/hanmail/fireball/dic/2005/b_history.gif" width="27" height="18" align="absmiddle"> 16c: from Latin <i>indignans</i>, from <i>indignari</i> to consider something or someone unworthy.

<br><span class="red_cr"><!--Start_Part-->━</span> verb (<b>infected</b>, <b>infecting</b>)<br>(<i>often </i><b>infect something </b>or <b>someone with something</b>)<br><b><b class="r_tit_13"><!--Exp_No--><SPAN CLASS="Exp_No">1 </SPAN><!--/Exp_No--></b></b><i>biol</i>, <i>medicine</i>, <i>etc</i> to contaminate (a living organism) with a PATHOGEN, such as a bacterium, virus or fungus, and thereby cause disease.<br><b><b class="r_tit_13"><!--Exp_No--><SPAN CLASS="Exp_No">2 </SPAN><!--/Exp_No--></b></b>to taint or contaminate (especially water, food or air) with a bacterium, pollutant, etc.<br><b><b class="r_tit_13"><!--Exp_No--><SPAN CLASS="Exp_No">3 </SPAN><!--/Exp_No--></b></b>to pass a feeling or opinion, especially an adverse or negative one, to someone.<br><b><b class="r_tit_13"><!--Exp_No--><SPAN CLASS="Exp_No">4 </SPAN><!--/Exp_No--></b></b><i>computing </i>to inflict or become inflicted with a VIRUS (sense 5).<br><div id="Blank_10"></div><img src="http://image.hanmail.net/hanmail/fireball/dic/2005/b_history.gif" width="27" height="18" align="absmiddle"> 14c: from Latin <i>inficere</i>, <i>infectum</i> to spoil or impregnate.

<br><span class="red_cr"><!--Start_Part-->━</span> noun <br><b><b class="r_tit_13"><!--Exp_No--><SPAN CLASS="Exp_No">1 </SPAN><!--/Exp_No--></b></b>the process of infecting or state of being infected.<br><b><b class="r_tit_13"><!--Exp_No--><SPAN CLASS="Exp_No">2 </SPAN><!--/Exp_No--></b></b><i>biol</i>, <i>medicine</i>, <i>etc</i> the invasion of a human, animal or plant by disease-causing micro-organisms, such as bacteria, viruses, fungi or protozoa, which then multiply rapidly and usually cause symptoms of disease. Compare INCUBATION.<br><b><b class="r_tit_13"><!--Exp_No--><SPAN CLASS="Exp_No">3 </SPAN><!--/Exp_No--></b></b>an infectious disease, caused by such a micro-organism.<br><b><b class="r_tit_13"><!--Exp_No--><SPAN CLASS="Exp_No">4 </SPAN><!--/Exp_No--></b></b>the passing on of feelings, opinions, etc, especially negative ones.<br>

<span class="red_cr"><!--Start_Part-->━</span> noun <br><b><b class="r_tit_13"><!--Exp_No--><SPAN CLASS="Exp_No">1 </SPAN><!--/Exp_No--></b></b>a slight mistake or failure.<br><b><b class="r_tit_13"><!--Exp_No--><SPAN CLASS="Exp_No">2 </SPAN><!--/Exp_No--></b></b>a perceived decline in standards of behaviour, etc<br><b><b class="r_tit_13"><!--Exp_No--><SPAN CLASS="Exp_No">3 </SPAN><!--/Exp_No--></b></b>a passing of time.<br><b><b class="r_tit_13"><!--Exp_No--><SPAN CLASS="Exp_No">4 </SPAN><!--/Exp_No--></b></b><i>law </i>the loss of a right or privilege because of failure to renew a claim to it.<br><div id="Blank_10"></div><img src="http://image.hanmail.net/hanmail/fireball/dic/2005/b_history.gif" width="27" height="18" align="absmiddle"> 16c: from Latin <i>lapsus</i> a slip.