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Definition of Affusion
1. Noun. The act of baptizing someone by pouring water on their head.
Definition of Affusion
1. n. The act of pouring upon, or sprinkling with a liquid, as water upon a child in baptism.
Definition of Affusion
1. Noun. The pouring of liquid. ¹
2. Noun. A method of Christian baptism where water is poured on the head of the person being baptized. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Affusion
1. an act of pouring a liquid on [n -S]
Medical Definition of Affusion
1.
The act of pouring upon, or sprinkling with a liquid, as water upon a child in baptism.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Affusion
Literary usage of Affusion
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1908)
"The Didache makes provision for baptism by affusion whenever water in sufficient
... the whole case out with respect to the baptism of the sick by affusion. ..."
2. Medical Reports, on the Effects of Water, Cold and Warm: As a Remedy in by James Currie (1805)
"The evaporation from the surface is more copious from the tepid affusion, ...
But this is not all; the tepid affusion is little if at all stimulating, ..."
3. The Retrospect of Medicine by William Braithwaite (1860)
"[Cold affusion is a convenient and most effectual remedy iii cases of narcotic
... They were soon closed again, but after the affusion had been continued ..."
4. The British and Foreign Medical Review: Or Quarterly Journal of Practical (1841)
"One great reason why cold affusion has met with so few supporters is to be found
... In the employment of cold affusion it is the secondary action of cold, ..."
5. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1859)
"On the Efficacy of Cold affusion in Narcotism. By A. REEVES JACKSON, AM, MD, ...
That cold affusion to the head is a remedy entitled to this praise, ..."
6. An exposition of the Creed by John Pearson (1843)
"Now what more clear than that our Christ was anointed by affusion, whether we
look upon his conception, the Holy Ghost shall come upon thee; ..."
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