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Infuse   /ɪnfjˈuz/   Listen
verb
Infuse  v. t.  (past & past part. infused; pres. part. infusing)  
1.
To pour in, as a liquid; to pour (into or upon); to shed. "That strong Circean liquor cease to infuse."
2.
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?"
3.
To inspire; to inspirit or animate; to fill; followed by with. "Infuse his breast with magnanimity." "Infusing him with self and vain conceit."
4.
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."
5.
To make an infusion with, as an ingredient; to tincture; to saturate. (R.)



noun
Infuse  n.  Infusion. (Obs.)






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"Infuse" Quotes from Famous Books



... prevailed that no opposition, in the event of hostilities, was intended. The late increase of ammunition and every species of stores, the substitution of a strong regiment, and the appointment of a military person to administer the government, have tended to infuse other sentiments among the most reflecting part of the community; and I feel happy in being able to assure your excellency, that during my visit last week at Niagara, I received the most satisfactory professions of a determination on the part of the principal inhabitants to exert every ...
— The Life and Correspondence of Sir Isaac Brock • Ferdinand Brock Tupper

... excites and exhausts. Alcohol is the pathological fraud of frauds, degenerating while it claims to be reconstructing, enfeebling while it appears to be invigorating, destroying vitality while it professes to infuse ...
— Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why - What Medical Writers Say • Martha M. Allen

... love presents many aspects for the humorist, and perhaps to no one more than to him who has felt it intensely. Horace may or may not have sounded the depths of the passion in his own person; but, in any case, a fellow-feeling for the lover's pleasures and pains served to infuse a tone of kindliness into his ridicule. How charming in this way is the Ode to Lydia (I. 8), of which the late Henry Luttrel's once popular and still delightful 'Letters to Julia' is ...
— Horace • Theodore Martin

... Immediate. Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, and Micah form, as it were, the connecting links. Proceeding from the Messianic promise, in the shape which it had received at the time of David and Solomon, they give it a standing in the prophetic message, and infuse into it new life by means of the connection into which it is brought by them, and supplement it by adding ...
— Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions, v. 1 • Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg

... lovely woman, give me now the nectar of your lips, infuse new life into this slave of yours, so dead, This slave, whose heart is placed in you, whose body burned in separation, this slave denied ...
— The Loves of Krishna in Indian Painting and Poetry • W. G. Archer


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