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interfuse, v.|ɪntəˈfjuːz|
[f. L. interfūs-, ppl. stem of interfundĕre, f. inter between + fundĕre to pour: cf. infuse, etc.]
1. trans. To permeate or intersperse (a thing) with an infusion or mixture of something else.
1593Nashe 4 Lett. Confut. 32 Thou interfusest delight with reprehension. 1599Hakluyt Voy. II. ii. 89 The kingdom of China is in all parts thereof interfused with commodious riuers. 1846Hawthorne Mosses i. i. 16 Abundantly interfused with Greek and Latin quotations. 1876Black Madcap V. vii. 57 The wonderful light greens of the Spring foliage seemed to be interfused with a lambent sunshine.
2. To pour in, infuse (one thing through or throughout another).
1667Milton P.L. vii. 89 This which yeelds or fills All space, the ambient Aire wide interfus'd, Imbracing round this florid Earth. 1784Cowper Task v. 148 Ice upon ice, the well-adjusted parts Were soon conjoined, nor other cement ask'd Than water interfused to make them one. 1798Wordsw. Tintern Abbey 96 A sense sublime Of something far more deeply interfused, Whose dwelling is the light,..And the blue sky, and in the mind of man. 1863Whittier A. Rykman's Prayer 154 Through chaos, doubt and strife, Interfuse Thy calm of life.
3. To fuse or blend (things) together. In pass.
1853De Quincey Autobiog. Sk. Wks. I. 54 The sorrow..and the devotion..were profoundly interfused. 1865E. Burritt Walk Land's End 450 Here their different orders of intellectual and scholastic architecture may be seen intermixed but not interfused. 1870Lowell Study Wind. 37 The character and its intellectual product are inextricably interfused.
4. intr. Of two things: To fuse or blend with each other.
1851H. Melville Whale xli. 203 His torn body and gashed soul bled into one another; and so interfusing, made him mad. 1870Yeats Nat. Hist. Comm. 120 South of the Tropic of Capricorn the products of the torrid and temperate zones interfuse.
5. trans. Of one thing: To penetrate or permeate and blend with.
1876J. Weiss Wit, Hum. & Shaks. viii. 252 The genius which interfused the plays. 1881H. James Portr. Lady xlix, She had become deeply, tenderly acquainted with Rome; it interfused and moderated her passion.
Hence interˈfusing ppl. a. Also ˈinterfuse n.
1881G. Allen Evolutionist at Large, Microsc. Brains, The whole universe is clearly to them [ants] a complicated picture made up entirely of infinite interfusing smells. 1887Century Mag. Feb. 586 A chalice choicely fit For Truth's and Beauty's perfect interfuse. |