superfuse

English

Etymology

See super- and compare infuse.

Verb

superfuse (third-person singular simple present superfuses, present participle superfusing, simple past and past participle superfused)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To pour (something) over or on something else.
   • 1685 December 23 (Gregorian calendar), John Evelyn, “[Diary entry for December 13 1685]”, in William Bray, editor, Memoirs, Illustrative of the Life and Writings of John Evelyn, […], 2nd edition, volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […]; and sold by John and Arthur Arch, […], published 1819, →OCLC:

     pouring first a very cold liquor into a glass, and super-fusing on it another, to appearance cold and cleare liquor also

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “superfuse”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Latin

Participle

superfūse

1. vocative masculine singular of superfūsus