Crossword-Solution: AFFUSION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Affusion | n. | The act of pouring upon, or sprinkling with a liquid, as water upon a child in baptism. |
| Affusion | n. | The act of pouring water or other fluid on the whole or a part of the body, as a remedy in disease. |
We have 7 clues for the answer “AFFUSION”
| Clue | Answers |
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| baptizing of a person by pouring water onto his head | 1 answer |
| the act of baptizing someone by pouring water on their head | 1 answer |
| spreading | 61 answers |
| Stream | 71 answers |
| rising | 71 answers |
| Flow | 90 answers |
| Course | 106 answers |
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Sentences with AFFUSION (5)
Cases, which at first were exceptional, gradually multiplied, so that, at length, the ordinary mode of baptism was by affusion.
From the same reason proceeds the whiteness of many kinds of Sands, which in the _Microscope_ appear to be made up of a multitude of little _pellucid_ bodies, whose brightest reflections may by the _Microscope_ be plainly perceiv’d to come from their internal surfaces; and much of the whiteness of it may be destroy’d by the affusion of fair Water to be contiguous to those surfaces.
But immersion is baptism, in my view, because a person who is immersed is sure to get affused; and, affusion with water is all of the baptism which seems to me essential.
After a considerable time affusion, or sprinkling, returned, and became the prevailing mode, without any special enactment, or any formal renunciation of the late mode.
Whereas they may be very easily parted by the Affusion of Spirit of Nitre or _Aqua fortis_ (which the French therefore call _Eau de Depart_:) so likewise the Metalline part of Vitriol will not be so easily and conveniently separated from the Saline part even by a violent Fire, as by the Affusion of certain Alkalizate Salts in a liquid Form upon the Solution of Vitriol made in common water.