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Definition of Circumfusion
1. n. The act of pouring or spreading round; the state of being spread round.
Definition of Circumfusion
1. Noun. diffusion, suffusion ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Circumfusion
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Circumfusion
Literary usage of Circumfusion
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Hand-book on Christian Baptism by Richard Ingham (1865)
"It is a cogent argument, in which there can be some glorying, that in the year
of our Lord 250, the pouring or circumfusion of the clinic with water—an ..."
2. The Sacraments: An Inquiry Into the Nature of the Symbolic Institutions of by Robert Halley (1844)
"The circumfusion of Novatus in his bed has been generally noticed in this
controversy, as the account is given in the letters of Cornelius of Rome, ..."
3. The Contemporary Review (1876)
"It does not mean the circumfusion of a dim haze of religious light, distorting
the natural meaning of words. It does not even mean that inward experience of ..."