单词 | affuse |
释义 | affusev. 1. transitive. To pour (a liquid) over or into something (chiefly with on or upon). Also (in passive): to have a liquid poured over. Now rare.Chiefly in scientific contexts. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or fact of pouring or being poured > pour [verb (transitive)] > on or upon insheda1382 infusec1420 infound?1440 slakec1440 superinfund1599 affuse1649 affund1657 superfuse1657 slosh1912 1649 W. Charleton in tr. J. B. van Helmont Ternary of Paradoxes 97 Upon melted Tinne, the Chymist affuseth Mercury, and makes thereof a fragil substance and snow white masse. 1683 W. Salmon Doron Medicum ii. 424 Affuse upon it the quintessence of Iron. 1732 E. Strother Prælectiones Pharmaco-mathicæ I. 63 All Metals become Vitriols upon affusing Dissolvents, which are always Acid. 1797 J. Currie Med. Rep. xv. 199 The proper treatment..is to pour large draughts of cold water into the stomach, or to affuse it on the surface. 1806 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 96 372 I now stopped the distillation, and affused alcohol. 1852 Pharm. Jrnl. & Trans. 9 265 The white residue, affused with cold distilled water and filtered, yielded a filtrate which [etc.]. 1870 D. Read Nathan Read iii. 20 An improvement upon Savary's plan of affusing cold water on the surface. 1912 J. Herold Man. Legal Med. xxix. 353 The body is thoroughly affused with cold water. 2. transitive (chiefly in passive). Christian Church. To baptize (a person) by affusion (affusion n. 2c). Also occasionally intransitive. ΚΠ 1802 N. A. Gilbert Catholic Doctr. Baptism II. 181 Such as were affused in their bed, were thought irregularly baptized, and were never admitted into holy orders. 1879 D. B. Ford Stud. on Baptismal Question 177 The sick and dying, if unbaptized, were frequently affused on their beds. 1915 H. B. Swete Holy Catholic Church iii. 123 Each member of the Church is baptized separately;..each is individually immersed or affused in the water. 1921 H. E. Dosker Dutch Anabaptists 111 The Anabaptists, who baptized him, knew nothing of that mode of baptism and always sprinkled or affused. 2002 H. Marshall in S. E. Porter & A. R. Cross Dimensions of Baptism i. 20 It is possible..that John baptized by affusing the candidates as they stood in the water. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < v.1649 |
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