a. [f. L. transfūs-, ppl. stem (see TRANSFUSE) + -IVE. In med.L. transfūsīvus (Albertus Magnus, a. 1280).] Having the quality of or a tendency to transfusion.
1677. W. Hughes, Man of Sin, II. iv. 72. The Virgin Mary had a transfusive Virginity; which quenched all concupiscence in others towards her.
1850. J. Hamilton, in Christian Sabbath (1852), 132. The transfusive good humour which sent every one away with a purpose to come back. Ibid. (1869), Mem. J. D. Burns, i. 11. The transfusive power of his large and exhaustless vitality.
Hence Transfusively adv., with transfusion.
1635. Heywood, Hierarch., V. 278. When he his beames transfusiuely shall run Through Mars his Sphere.
