Word Meanings - INFUSION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act of infusing, pouring in, or instilling; instillation; as, the infusion of good principles into the mind; the infusion of ardor or zeal. Our language has received innumerable elegancies and improvements from that infusion of Hebraisms.

Additional info about word: INFUSION

1. The act of infusing, pouring in, or instilling; instillation; as, the infusion of good principles into the mind; the infusion of ardor or zeal. Our language has received innumerable elegancies and improvements from that infusion of Hebraisms. Addison. 2. That which is infused; suggestion; inspiration. His folly and his wisdom are of his oun growth, not the echo or infusion of other men. Swift. 3. The act of plunging or dipping into a fluid; immersion. "Baptism by infusion." Jortin. The act or process of steeping or soaking any substance in water in order to extract its virtues. The liquid extract obtained by this process. Sips meek infusion of a milder herb. Cowper.

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• POURSUIVANT
  See PURSUIVANT
• INSTILL
  To drop in; to pour in drop by drop; hence, to impart gradually; to infuse slowly; to cause to be imbibed. That starlight dews All silently their tears of love instill. Byron. How hast thou instilled Thy malice into thousands. Milton. Syn. -- To
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  To bat back when served. Receiving ship, one on board of which newly recruited sailors are received, and kept till drafted for service. Syn. -- To accept; take; allow; hold; retain; admit. -- Receive, Accept. To receive describes simply the act
• POURPARLER
  A consultation preliminary to a treaty.
• INFUSCATION
  The act of darkening, or state of being dark; darkness; obscurity. Johnson.
• POURPARTY
  A division; a divided share. To make pourparty, to divide and apportion lands previously held in common.
• INSTILLATOR
  An instiller.
• INFUSIVE
  Having the power of infusion; inspiring; influencing. The infusive force of Spirit on man. Thomson.
• INSTILLER
  One who instills. Skelton.
• INFUSCATE
  To darken; to make black; to obscure.
• POURELICHE
  Poorly. Chaucer.
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  One who, or that which, infuses.
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  One who pours.
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  The state or quality of being received, accepted, or current; as, the receivedness of an opinion. Boyle.
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  1. The act of infusing, pouring in, or instilling; instillation; as, the infusion of good principles into the mind; the infusion of ardor or zeal. Our language has received innumerable elegancies and improvements from that infusion of Hebraisms.
• INFUSIBLENESS
  Infusibility.
• INFUSCATED
  Darkened with a blackish tinge.
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  Belonging to the Infusoria; composed of, or containing, Infusoria; as, infusorial earth. Infusorial earth , a deposit of fine, usually white, siliceous material, composed mainly of the shells of the microscopic plants called diatoms. It is used
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  A pouring or streaming downwards; esp., a heavy or continuous shower.
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  Employing too many words; diffuse. Lowell.
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  To receive wrongly.
• OUTPOUR
  To pour out. Milton.
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