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verb

Infuse v. t. (past & past part. infused; pres. part. infusing)

To pour in, as a liquid; to pour (into or upon); to shed. "That strong Circean liquor cease to infuse."

To instill, as principles or qualities; to introduce. "That souls of animals infuse themselves Into the trunks of men." "Why should he desire to have qualities infused into his son which himself never possessed?"

To inspire; to inspirit or animate; to fill; followed by with. "Infuse his breast with magnanimity." "Infusing him with self and vain conceit."

To steep in water or other fluid without boiling, for the propose of extracting medicinal qualities; to soak. "One scruple of dried leaves is infused in ten ounces of warm water."

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

noun

Infuse n. Infusion. (Obs.)

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Etymology of 'Infuse'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Infuse" Quotes from Famous Books

... old man and the younger one understood how to infuse confidence. They told them of the well-watered oasis of the Amalekites, which was not far distant, and pointed to the weapons in their hands, with which the Lord Himself had furnished them. Joshua assured them that they greatly outnumbered ...

— Uarda • Georg Ebers

... no escape for me, I next began to study how I could infuse into Mona's love for me something more of the personal element. How could I teach her to love me just a little for myself alone? Evidently she had been educated in an atmosphere of the most uncompromising monotony. Where everybody loved everybody what chance could there be for lovers? ...

— Daybreak: A Romance of an Old World • James Cowan

... not, as in its modern meaning, the masses of metal shaped by pouring into moulds; but the moulds themslves into which the fused metal was poured. Compare Dutch, "ingieten," part. "inghehoten," to infuse; German, "eingiessen," part. "eingegossen," ...

— The Canterbury Tales and Other Poems • Geoffrey Chaucer

... of Seville orange or lemon-peel, three ounces, apothecaries' weight; boiling water a pint and a half; infuse them for a night in a close vessel; then strain the liquor: let it stand to settle; and having poured it off clear from the sediment, dissolve in it two pounds of double-refined loaf sugar, and make it into a ...

— The Cook's Oracle; and Housekeeper's Manual • William Kitchiner

... He knelt down close to her; she yielded her hand to him and he with his usual impulsiveness covered it with kisses into which he tried to infuse the fervour of ...

— The Bronze Eagle - A Story of the Hundred Days • Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy

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