affused

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.

Bertha and Her Baptism Nehemiah Adams 1842

Volatile Salt or Spirit, which (had there been any there) would probably have discover'd it self by making an Ebullition with the affused Liquor.

The Sceptical Chymist or Chymico-Physical Doubts & Paradoxes, Touching the Spagyrist's Principles Commonly call'd Hypostatical; As they are wont to be Propos'd and Defended by the Generality of Alchymists. Whereunto is præmis'd Part of another Discourse relating to the same Subject. Robert Boyle 1659

That is: -- to the twin counterforces of the magnetic power, the equilibrium of which is revealed in magnetic iron, as the substantial, add the twin counterforces or positive and negative poles of the electrical power, the indifference of which is realized in water, as the superficial -- (whence Orpheus employed the term 'sprinkled,' or rather affused or superfused) -- and you will hear the voice of infant nature; -- that is, you will understand the rudimental products and elementary powers and constructions of the phenomenal world.

Literary Remains, Volume 2 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803