transfuse

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

TRANSFUSE, verb transitive transfu'ze. [Latin transfusus, transfundo; trans and fundo.] 1. To pour, as liquor, out of one vessel into another. 2. To transfer, as blood, from one animal to another. 3. To cause to pass from one to another; to cause to be instilled or imbibed; as, to transfuse a spirit of patriotism from one to another; to transfuse a love of letters.
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