Verb

(infus)

To cause to become an element of something; to insert or fill.

To steep in a liquid, so as to extract the soluble constituents (usually medicinal or herbal).

* Coxe

One scruple of dried leaves is infused in ten ounces of warm water.

To inspire; to inspirit or animate; to fill (with).

* Shakespeare

Infuse his breast with magnanimity.

* Shakespeare

infusing him with self and vain conceit

To instill as a quality.

* Shakespeare

That souls of animals infuse themselves / Into the trunks of men.

* Jonathan Swift

Why should he desire to have qualities infused into his son, which himself never possessed, or knew, or found the want of, in the acquisition of his wealth?

To undergo infusion.

* Let it infuse for five minutes.

To make an infusion with (an ingredient); to tincture; to saturate.

(Francis Bacon)

(obsolete) To pour in, as a liquid; to pour (into or upon); to shed.

* Denham

That strong Circean liquor cease to infuse .

Verb

(head)

(interfuse)

Verb

(interfus)

To fuse or blend together

*{{quote-book, year=1861, author=Various, title=Atlantic Monthly, Volume 8, No. 48, October, 1861, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=They seem to be so interfused with the emotions of the soul, that they strike upon the heart almost like the living touch of a spirit. }}

*{{quote-book, year=1909, author=William James, title=A Pluralistic Universe, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=Novelty, as empirically found, doesn't arrive by jumps and jolts, it leaks in insensibly, for adjacents in experience are always interfused , the smallest real datum being both a coming and a going, and even numerical distinctness being realized effectively only after a concrete interval has passed. }}

*{{quote-book, year=1914, author=May Sinclair, title=The Three Sisters, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=It was interfused and tangled with Greatorex's sublimest feelings. }}