affusion

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin affusio.

Noun

affusion (countable and uncountable, plural affusions)

1. The pouring of liquid, especially as a hydrotherapy.
2. A method of Christian baptism in which water is poured on the head of the person being baptized.

Usage notes

Sometimes confused with effusion (“an outpouring of liquid”).

Translations

pouring of liquid

• Bulgarian: обливане (oblivane)
• Italian: affusione f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Portuguese: afusão f
• Russian: облива́ние (ru) n (oblivánije)

a method of Christian baptism

• Bulgarian: обливане (oblivane), обредно поливане
• Finnish: valelukaste
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• Russian: окропле́ние (ru) n (okroplénije), опуска́ние в ку́пель n (opuskánije v kúpelʹ)

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French

Noun

affusion f (plural affusions)

1. affusion