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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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Etymology of 'Infusion'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... Clear-cakes are made after the same Manner, only mixing white Rasberries with the Goosberries in the Infusion. ...

— The Art of Confectionary • Edward Lambert

... by all my gods that I would not take the offer at any price, but I suppose the infusion of Theism was too homeopathic for ...

— The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Volume 2 • Leonard Huxley

... Port, at the "Clergyman's Recreation." Yet, for all that, the book had a rare interest for me, detailing, as it did, the methods of fruit-culture in England a hundred and forty years ago, and showing with nice particularity how the espaliers could be best trained, and how a strong infusion of walnut-leaf tea will destroy all ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864 • Various

... shades—who pleaded poverty, pared down prices, and cut jokes in the most companionable manner, though with a turn of tongue that let you know who she was. Such a lady gave a neighborliness to both rank and religion, and mitigated the bitterness of uncommuted tithe. A much more exemplary character with an infusion of sour dignity would not have furthered their comprehension of the Thirty-nine Articles, and would have been less ...

— Middlemarch • George Eliot

... Paris, "after repeated trials to reduce a strangulated hernia, injected an infusion of tobacco, and shortly after sent the patient in a carriage to the Westminster Hospital, for the purpose of undergoing the operation; but the unfortunate man arrived only a few minutes before ...

— A Dissertation on the Medical Properties and Injurious Effects of the Habitual Use of Tobacco • A. McAllister

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