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Infusion

noun

A solution obtained by steeping or soaking a substance (usually in water). Synonym: extract.

The process of extracting certain active properties (as a drug from a plant) by steeping or soaking (usually in water).

(medicine) the passive introduction of a substance (a fluid or drug or electrolyte) into a vein or between tissues (as by gravitational force).

The act of infusing or introducing a certain modifying element or quality.

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... how is it possible to be mistaken?' returned her daughter, with a shade of reproof in her voice. 'I told you that I had a long talk with Edith. Michael, I have made your tea; I think it is just as you like it—with no infusion of tannin, as you call it'; and she turned her head slowly, so as to bring into view the person she was addressing, and who, seated at a little distance, had taken no part in ...

— Lover or Friend • Rosa Nouchette Carey

... society, and the happiness of individuals; and the harmless flame which insensibly melted a waxen image, might derive a powerful and pernicious energy from the affrighted fancy of the person whom it was maliciously designed to represent. From the infusion of those herbs, which were supposed to possess a supernatural influence, it was an easy step to the use of more substantial poison; and the folly of mankind sometimes became the instrument, and the mask, of the most atrocious crimes. As soon as the ...

— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 2 • Edward Gibbon

... or less open subjection, financial, political, and moral. There should be a freer air in San Mateo henceforth. The people will have a chance to grow. They no longer will feel the threat of brutal masters always over them; and with the completion of the irrigation project and the infusion of new settlers they will ...

— In the Shadow of the Hills • George C. Shedd

... more important consequences for the old religion of Pessinus than the partial infusion of Judaic beliefs had had. Its theology gained a deeper meaning and an elevation hitherto unknown, after it had adopted some of ...

— The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism • Franz Cumont

... humour of "Don Quixote" by an infusion of cockney flippancy and facetiousness, as Motteux's operators did, is not merely an impertinence like larding a sirloin of prize beef, but an absolute falsification of the spirit of the book, and it is a proof of the uncritical ...

— Don Quixote • Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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