Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act of pouring or spreading between; an intimate intermingling.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The act of interfusing, or the state of being interfused.

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  • noun Mutual fusion or blending

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Examples

  • This interfusion is allegorized by Blake’s process of production and dissemination, "from generation to generation," of his illuminated manuscripts, itself allegorized throughout his books, as in A Printing House in Hell.

    Chaosmic Orders: Nonclassical Physics, Allegory, and the Epistemology of Blake's Minute Particulars. 2001

  • In sex, the meshing of bodies, though not above delivering animal satisfaction, serves as an analogy for the higher interfusion of minds that goes on in parallel.

    BREAKFAST WITH SOCRATES ROBERT ROWLAND SMITH 2010

  • In sex, the meshing of bodies, though not above delivering animal satisfaction, serves as an analogy for the higher interfusion of minds that goes on in parallel.

    BREAKFAST WITH SOCRATES ROBERT ROWLAND SMITH 2010

  • On the operatic stage, painting, music, and poetry came together with architecture, sculpture, and the dance in a sublime interfusion of the abstract and plastic arts (Tetreault 146).

    'An assiduous frequenter of the Italian opera': Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound and the opera buffa 2005

  • Zen makes another equally important contention through this abstention, namely that time and space are lived as integrated space-time in the interfusion of a concrete temporalization and spatialization.

    Japanese Zen Buddhist Philosophy Nagatomo, Shigenori 2006

  • But at the other end of the rainbow, where the gray rain was tempered along the grass and leaves by a tender interfusion of violet and gold in the meadows beyond Lambeth, what think you that I found instead of a mitre?

    The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley 2003

  • The scientific authority that Mesmerism gave to Romantic speculations on the relation of the individual mind to a sublime source of vital power seems absurd to us now, and the order of sublimity it authorized appears to be strictly ideological, an order of culture, history, or political economy rather than of divine interfusion.

    Re-collecting Spontaneous Overflows 1998

  • The dark blue of the mountains deepened into their night-garb of dusky shadow without any interfusion of dead, ashy color, and the heaven overhead was spangled with all its stars long before the brilliant arch of orange in the west had sunk below the horizon.

    Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers Benj. N. Martin

  • As the slightest interfusion of carbon may change the dull iron into trenchant steel, so intelligence working through invisible channels may add a new temper to the physical nature.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865 Various

  • Little Tommy had a fit that night; for, by the strange interfusion of spirit into all forms of matter, the quick revulsion of the blood in his mother's heart passed into his nourishment, and convulsed his body, as her soul had been convulsed.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 Various

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