affuse

Borrowed from Latin affundō (“I pour, sprinkle, or scatter onto”, perfect passive participial stem: affūs-).

• IPA^(key): /əˈfjuːz/
• Homophone: effuse (many accents)

affuse (third-person singular simple present affuses, present participle affusing, simple past and past participle affused)

1. (archaic, transitive) To pour out or upon.
   • 1661, Robert Boyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Sceptical Chymist: or Chymico-physical Doubts & Paradoxes, […], London: […] J. Cadwell for J. Crooke, […], →OCLC:

     [I] poured on them acid liquors, to try if they contained any volatile salt or spirit, which (had there been any there) would probably have discovered itself by making an ebullition with the affused liquor.

• “affuse”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

affūse

1. vocative masculine singular of affūsus