infusoryadj.n.
/ɪnˈfjuːsəri/ A. adj.† 1. Of or pertaining to (surgical) infusion or injection. Obsolete.
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1684 tr. T. Bonet Guide Pract. Physician xi. 374 An Epistle..concerning Transfusion of bloud, and infusory Chirurgery.
2. = infusorial adj.
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1826 J. M. Good Bk. Nature II. i. 20 The fifth or infusory order of worms, comprehends those minute and simple animalcules which are seldom capable of being traced, except by a microscope.
1855 H. Spencer Princ. Psychol. iii. vi. 388 The infusory animalcule.
B. n.
A member of the Infusoria.
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1835 W. Kirby On Power of God in Creation of Animals I. ii. 135 Those that are termed Infusories; because they are usually found in infusions of various substances.
1857 P. H. Gosse Creation 227 It was a swimming Infusory with a broad ciliated disk.
1863 Possibil. Creation 219 Nature appears to have taken as much pains with the humblest infusory as with the stateliest camelopard.
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