infuse English
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 .
References
* 1902 Webster's International dictionary.
* 1984 Consise Oxford 7th ed.
See also
* fuse
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interfused English
Verb
(head)
(interfuse)
interfuse English
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. }}
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