reinfund
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From re- + Latin infundere (“to pour in”).
Verb
[edit]reinfund (third-person singular simple present reinfunds, present participle reinfunding, simple past and past participle reinfunded)
- (obsolete) To flow in anew.
- 1704, [Jonathan Swift], “Section IX”, in A Tale of a Tub. […], London: […] John Nutt, […], →OCLC:
- The best part of his Diet, is the Reversion of his own Ordure, which expiring into Steams, whirls perpetually about, and at last reinfunds.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “reinfund”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)