affusionn.

1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 33 As it were an affusion or confluence of blood.

1634 T. Johnson tr. A. Paré Chirurg. Wks. iv. xxx. 144 It [sc. the heart] is composed of the most dense flesh of all the body, by the affusion of blood at the divisions and foldings of the vessel, and there concrete.

1668 N. Culpeper & A. Cole tr. T. Bartholin Anat. (new ed.) i. xiv. 34/2 If it [sc. the liver] be quite void of blood, or boyled, we may rightly say..that it is whiteish, as in an Embryo, before affusion of blood be made.

1714 J. Purcell Treat. Cholick 91 The affusion of a more Active and Spirituous Blood upon it.

1788 Chambers's Cycl. (new ed.) at Generation The penis being erected by an affusion of blood.

1851 Southern Med. Rep. 2 178 Engorgement and hepatization of the lungs, with affusion of serum in the pleural sacs.

1897 Eclectic Med. Jrnl. 57 233 Apoplexy, or an affusion of blood behind or within the tissues of the placenta,..is very likely to result in abortion.

1905 New Eng. Med. Gaz. 40 436 If an affusion of serum alone is suspected, the treatment consists in preventing further extension of the process.

1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 127 A Parenchyma..or a fleshy affusion, very soft, thin, loose, and spongious.

1653 W. Harvey Anat. Exercitations 523 Fabricius saith, that the After-birth is in almost all Viviparous creatures, a soft flesh, lax, porous, thick, and something black, growing about the terminations of the Vmbilical vessels, which he resembleth to a looser Parenchyma or affusion of a Liver or Spleen.

1635 W. Jones Comm. Epist. St. Paul 506 An affusion, namely to the lintell and doore cheekes, with a sponge of hysope.

1663 R. Boyle Some Considerations Usefulnesse Exper. Nat. Philos. 164 Take good Dantzick Vitriol..and calcine it till the calx have attain'd a dark red, or purplish colour, then, by the frequent affusion of boyling, or at least warm Water, dulcifie it exactly.

1674 H. Oldenburg Let. 31 Jan. in Corr. (1975) X. 455 You are desired to try upon ye place, in case yt a marcasite be very grosly beaten, or powder'd, or unbeaten, will conceive a heat by ye affusion of cold water.

1748 Gentleman's Mag. Mar. 120/1 It seems not reasonable to suppose that the still should furnish a cooler and better medicine, than that which is commonly prepared, by the simple affusion and stirring of cold water.

1780 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 71 26 Growing milky on the affusion of pure distilled water.

1806 W. Henry Epitome Chem. (ed. 4) i. xviii. 230 Wash..with repeated affusions of warm water.

1911 O. Oldberg & M. A. Miner Lab. Man. Inorg. & Org. Pharmaceut. Prepar. 20 Wash the precipitate as rapidly as possible, by affusion and decantation.

1922 E. R. Braley Neglected Era xi. 188 For an affusion, enough water to fill one and one-half egg shells must be poured upon the uplifted hands.

1960 J. R. Partington Hist. Greek Fire & Gunpowder iii. 125 The bronze of the gun, he [sc. Doukas] says, would become porous..had not the artificer protected it..by affusion of oil.

1652 J. French York-shire Spaw iv. 45 Now water is used outwardly..first by way of Balneum, or bathing the whole body, secondly by way of insessus or sitting in water up to the navel, thirdly by way of aspersion or affusion (i. e.) sprinkling or pouring on.

1683 W. Harris Pharmacologia 238 Wherefore I very much suspect even the affusion of Cold Water upon the parts affected, which our Great Hippocrates does sometimes recommend in Gouts.

1797 J. Currie Med. Rep. 67 The tepid affusion is little if at all stimulating, and does not, like the cold affusion, rouse the system to those actions by which heat is evolved.

1803 W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. 1 273 From the eruptive fever of democratic effervescence, countries recover by slight and temperate affusions of concession.

1844 T. J. Graham Mod. Domest. Med. (ed. 9) 752 In very acute attacks of yellow fever..we resort to the use of purgatives, and the cold affusion.

1921 N. Amer. Jrnl. Homeopathy Feb. 153 Massage of lower limbs followed by a hot affusion.

2000 N. Altman Healing Springs 142 Kneipp techniques also include local affusions (pouring on of water) to various parts of the body.

1653 R. Hollinworth Catechist Catechized 38 Dipping..hath been commended above sprinkling or affusion.

1680 T. Smith Acct. Greek Church 112 But whether the Sacramental Rite be either by Immersion or by Affusion, the effect of the Sacrament is the same.

1709 J. Johnson Clergy-man's Vade Mecum: Pt. II Pref. p. civ Our present Code of Canons and our Rubricks are silent, as whether the Priest in Baptizing shall use three Immersions, or affusions, or but one.

1781 M. Hemmenway Disc. Christian Baptism 17 Can we doubt whether affusion be a true baptism, when we find that in scripture, Baptizing, Pouring, Sprinkling, and Anointing, are parallel, and signify the same thing?

1885 Cent. Mag. May 170/2 Here occurs the passage which has given rise to so much lively discussion between Baptists and Pedo-Baptists, as it sanctions both immersion and affusion or sprinkling but makes no allusion to infant baptism.

1907 J. T. Christian Form of Baptism in Sculpt. & Art 221 Father Mabillon says this represents a Greek baptism, where the immersion is finished by an affusion.

1981 Britannia 12 274 In the fourth century, to which the tanks may be dated on stylistic grounds.., baptism was by affusion.

2003 Baptist Times 9 Oct. 2/1 They were previously unaware that affusion..was an option.