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our in, as a liquid; to pour (into or upon); to shed. That strong Circean liquor cease to infuse. Denham.

One who, or that which, infuses.

To infuse over. [R.]

To infuse air into; to combine air with.

To inject by breathing; to infuse; -- with into. Able to breathe life into a stone. Shak. And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life. Gen. ii. 7.

To infuse life, courage, animation, or hope, into; to inspirit; to solace or comfort. The proud he tamed, the penitent he cheered. Dryden.

To convert into a demon; to infuse the principles or fury of a demon into.

To distill or infuse the spirit of. [Obs. or R.] This makes a man master of his learning, and dispirits the book into the scholar. Fuller.

To incorporate with the grain or texture of anything; to infuse deeply. See Ingrain. The stain hath become engrained by time. Sir W. Scott.

To send in; to inject; to infuse; -- the correlative of emit. [R.] Boyle.

To infuse an active principle into; to render frutful or fertile in any way; to fertilize; to imbue.

To infuse by breathing; to inspire. Coleridge.

To pour in; to infuse. [Obs.] Sir T. More.

Capability of being infused, pouredin, or instilled.

Capable of being infused. Doctrines being infusible into all. Hammond.

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

The doctrine that the soul is preexistent to the body, and is infused into it at conception or birth; -- opposed to tradicianism and creationism.

To introduce artfully; to infuse gently; to instill. All the art of rhetoric, besides order and clearness, are for nothing else but to insinuate wrong ideas, move the passions, and thereby mislead the judgment. Locke. Horace laughs to shame all follies and insinuates virtue, rather by familiar examples than by the seve…

To infuse by breathing, or as if by breathing. He knew not his Maker, and him that inspired into him an active soul. Wisdom xv. 11.

To infuse new life or spirit into; to animate; to encourage; to invigorate. The courage of Agamemnon is inspirited by the love of empire and ambition. Pope.