superinfusion

English

Alternative forms

• super-infusion

Etymology

super- +‎ infusion

Noun

superinfusion (plural superinfusions)

1. (rare) An extra, extensive, and/or excessive infusion of something; a particular instance of such an infusion.
   • 1739, Thomas Wentworth Earl of Strafford, Sir George Radcliffe, The Earl of Strafforde's Letters and Dispatches: With an Essay Towards His Life, Volume 2‎^[1], page 4:

     His Majesty's Answer was, that he would have him stay, and that he would take it into his Care, he should receive no Prejudice thereby. Thus it stands for the present, but what Superinfusions may be made, and how far the importunate Soli citations of such as have espoused his Interests may prevail to incline his Majesty to his present Departure, I know not, but fear it may be compassed, if some Repercussives be not speedily used by way of Prevention.

   • 1805, Jorin John, Remarks on Ecclesiastical History‎^[2], Lackington, Allen; Edinburgh, T. Turnbull, pages 291–292:

     It represents in Basso Relievo an huge caldron, or vessel, in which are a king and a queen, and a man standing by it pours water upon the head of the king, who is praying with his hands joined. This he supposes to describe the baptism of some prince, performed by immersion immersion^[sic] and superinfusion.

   • 1853, James Nichols, William R. Bagnall, The Works of James Arminius, D. D., Formerly Professor of Divinity in the University of Leyden, Volume 3‎^[3], Derby and Miller, page 117:

     I do not here contend, with much strenuousness, whether he has those supernatural endowments from the act of creation or from another act of superinfusion, but leave this without decision, as neither useful or injurious to my cause.

   • 1866, Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science and Art 1866-06: Volume, 3 Issue 6‎^[4], Open Court Publishing Company, page 776:

     It would obviously be in vain to look for the purely Buddhistic originals of this work and others of the same description, all of which now show a superinfusion of Hivaitic ideas, anywhere in India.

   • 2001, William Kenneth Stevens, The Change in the Weather: People, Weather, and the Science of Climate‎^[5], Dell Publishing Company, →ISBN, pages 116–117:

     Hurricanes are supercyclones, their rains and winds intensified far beyond those of most middle-latitude cyclones (tornadoes excepted) by the superinfusions of heat and moisture they get from moving over the oceans for days at a time.

References

• “superinfusion”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.