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infuse
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Infuse \In*fuse"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Infused ; p. pr. & vb. n. Infusing .] [L. infusus, p. p. of infundere to pour in or into; pref. in- in + fundere to pour: cf. F. infuser. See Found to cast.] To pour in, as a liquid; to pour (into or upon); to shed. ...
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To cause to become an element of something; to insert or fill. 2 (context transitive English) To steep in a liquid, so as to extract the soluble constituents (usually medicinal or herbal). 3 (context transitive English) ...
Usage examples of infuse.
Pan pipes, reed flutes, and birdcalls were infused in the vibrations to combine nature with man-made percussion sounds.
Clyde did his best, and a very good best it was, to infuse something of the banquet into their prolonged desert picnics, but even snow-cooled Heidsieck lost its flavour when you were convinced that the dusky cupbearer who served it with such reverent elegance was only waiting a convenient opportunity to cut your throat.
We too easily ignore the ways in which we infuse these artifacts with the finespun web of our own, largely subconscious habits of thought.
Religions of high complexity of feeling and rationale, forms of architecture, conceived in the spirit of that religion and put into its service, lyric poetry, pictorial art, sculpture, music, orders of nobility, orders of priesthood, stylized dwellings, stylized manners and dress, rigid training of the young up to these developments to perpetuate them, systems of philosophy, of mathematics, of knowledge, of nature, prodigious technical methods, giant battles, huge armies, prolonged wars, energetic economics to support this whole multifarious structure, intricately organized governments to infuse order into the nations created by the higher being acting on the different types of human materialthese are some of the floraison of forms which appear in these two areas.
She wore a wide, whirling, gypsyish skirt with a flounce at the hem, and the sway and flare and swirl of the skirt seemed to infuse the bland music with energies of an altogether higher order.
As an added treat, Carr infuses this fun romance with a megadose of sidesplitting humor and irrepressible, eccentric secondary characters.
He infused the will and the vigor that would keep the struggle against tyranny going until the goal of an independent Netherlands was won eighty years after Louis of Nassau had lighted the sparks.
Three pounds of the fresh blossoms should be infused in five pints of boiling water, and then simmered down to a proper consistence with sugar.
Verily, I say unto thee, every soul which ariseth today to guide others to the path of safety and infuse in them the Spirit of Life, the Holy Spirit will inspire that soul with evidences, proofs and facts and the lights will shine upon it from the Kingdom of God.
Rugged old Tertullian, in whose torrid veins the fire of his African deserts seems infused, revels with infernal glee over the contemplation of the sure damnation of the heathen.
Wherefore, since grace is infused in each of the sacraments of the New Law, none of them was instituted directly against venial sin.
Now grace is infused, in Penance as in the other sacraments of the New Law.
God and against sin, consequently whenever grace is infused anew, venial sins are forgiven.
Even the forgiveness of venial sins is an effect of grace, in virtue of the act which grace produces anew, but not through any habit infused anew into the soul.
Hence Stavrogin and his pupil Shatov, for all their Slavophilism and Russian nationalism, cannot muster the simple and unquestioning faith that would infuse their ideas with the inner fire of true emotional commitment.