v. [f. L. transfūs-, ppl. stem of transfund-ĕre, f. trans. TRANS- + fundĕre to pour. Cf. F. transfuser (17–18th c. in Hatz.-Darm.).]
1. trans. To pour (a liquid) from one vessel or receptacle into another.
1601. Holland, Pliny, XXXIII. vi. II. 473. Ever and anon the troubled water ought to be transfused into a vessell of brasse, and clarified therein.
1664. Power, Exp. Philos., I. 4. The stings in all Bees are hollow and tubulous … so that when they prick the flesh, they do also, through that channel, transfuse the poyson into it.
1755. Smollett, Quix., II. IV. ii. (1803), IV. 141. Transfusing the contents of the bottles into their own bellies.
1829. Chapters Phys. Sci., 19. When water or any … fluid requires to be transfused from one vessel to another.
2. transf. and fig. To cause to ‘flow’ from one to another; to transmit; to diffuse into or through something; to cause to permeate; to instil.
c. 1425. St. Mary of Oignies, II. iv., in Anglia, VIII. 165/15. As in a lighte [He] transfused hym-selfe þurgh alle þe body of þe seke.
1594. Hooker, Eccl. Pol., I. x. § 12. A naturall delight which man hath to transfuse from himselfe into others.
1605. B. Jonson, Volpone, III. v. Where we may so transfuse our wandering souls Out at our lips.
1618. Hales, Gold. Rem., II. (1673), 9. The sole way of transfusing the principles of Christianity into men.
1799. Sacheverell, Serm., 15 Aug., 4. It’s … Influence is transfus’d thro’ several … Channels.
1877. Miss A. B. Edwards, Up Nile, ix. 240. The sun being … at its highest and the air transfused with light.
1880. E. White, Cert. Relig. (1881), 17. Their testimony, and teaching, and life, transfuse that certitude into those who receive their word.
3. Med., etc. To transfer (the blood of a person or animal) into the veins of another; to inject (blood or other fluid) into the veins.
1666. Phil. Trans., 353. Take up the Carotidal Artery of the Dog or other Animal, whose Bloud is to be transfused into another of the same or a different Kind.
1743. trans. Heister’s Surg., 305. The Blood of one Animal is transfused into the Veins of another.
1801. Med. Jrnl., V. 565. On transfusing red blood into the temporal artery, the animal remained lively and well.
b. To treat (a person) with transfusion of blood (or of some solution).
1897. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., II. 948. We transfused the patient with saline solution containing sulphates.
1905. Rolleston, Dis. Liver, 268. He was transfused but died the same day.
Hence Transfused ppl. a.; Transfusing vbl. sb. and ppl. a.
1652. Benlowes, Theoph., V. liv. The Primum Mobile do’s seem immense And doth transfused Influence Through all inferiour Orbs … dispense.
1667. Phil. Trans., II. 490. The Conception of that Transfusing design.
1782. A. Monro, Compar. Anat. (ed. 3), Introd. 10. Changing their juices by transfusing of new liquors.
1842. Loudon, Suburban Hort., 91. They receive from the atmosphere the transfused light on every side.
1903. Morley, Gladstone, I. II. iv. 165. The transfusing alchemy of his rather smoky crucible.
