Bible Dictionaries
Contagious

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

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

(2):

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

(3):

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

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Contagious'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​c/contagious.html. 1828.