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Interfuse

Inˊter-fuse′

,
Verb.
T.
[L.
interfusus
, p. p. of
interfundere
to pour between;
inter
between +
fundere
to pour. See
Fuse
to melt.]
1.
To pour or spread between or among; to diffuse; to scatter.
The ambient air, wide
interfused
,
Embracing round this florid earth.
Milton.
2.
To spread through; to permeate; to pervade.
[R.]
Keats, in whom the moral seems to have so perfectly
interfused
the physical man, that you might almost say he could feel sorrow with his hands.
Lowell.
3.
To mix up together; to associate.
H. Spencer.

Definition 2024

interfuse

interfuse

English

Verb

interfuse ‎(third-person singular simple present interfuses, present participle interfusing, simple past and past participle interfused)

  1. To fuse or blend together
    • 1861, Various, Atlantic Monthly, Volume 8, No. 48, October, 1861:
      They seem to be so interfused with the emotions of the soul, that they strike upon the heart almost like the living touch of a spirit.
    • 1909, William James, A Pluralistic Universe:
      Novelty, as empirically found, doesn't arrive by jumps and jolts, it leaks in insensibly, for adjacents in experience are always interfused, the smallest real datum being both a coming and a going, and even numerical distinctness being realized effectively only after a concrete interval has passed.
    • 1914, May Sinclair, The Three Sisters:
      It was interfused and tangled with Greatorex's sublimest feelings.

Etymology

inter- +‎ fuse

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