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noun

Infusion n.

The act of infusing, pouring in, or instilling; instillation; as, the infusion of good principles into the mind; the infusion of ardor or zeal. "Our language has received innumerable elegancies and improvements from that infusion of Hebraisms."

That which is infused; suggestion; inspiration. "His folly and his wisdom are of his own growth, not the echo or infusion of other men."

The act of plunging or dipping into a fluid; immersion. (Obs.) "Baptism by infusion."

(Pharmacy)

(a)

The act or process of steeping or soaking any substance in water in order to extract its active principles.

(b)

The liquid extract obtained by this process. "Sips meek infusion of a milder herb."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Infusion" Quotes from Famous Books

... 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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