Obs. in polite use. [f. CLAP sb.2] trans. To infect with clap. Also fig.
1658. Osborn, Jas. I. (1673), 514. Atropos clapt him, a Pox on the Drab!
1676. Wiseman, Chirurg. Treat., VII. i. 6 (J.). If the patient hath been formerly clapt, it will be the more difficult to cure him the second time, and worse the third.
a. 1680. Butler, Rem. (1759), I. 249. [They] Had ne’er been clap’d with a poetic Itch.
1683. T. Hunt, Def. Charter Lond., 30. His understanding is clapt.
1738. Laws of Chance, Pref. 9. It is hardly 1 to 10 … that a Town-Spark of that Age has not been clap’d.
