Meanings
present singular third person effunds · participle present effunding · participle past effunded · past effunded
- obsoleteTo pour out.
If he his life effund To utmost death, the high God hath design'd That we both live.
1642, Henry More, The Life of the Soul1 more example
However, later discoveries prove, that it is not peculiar to one species only, but that several kinds, nay, different families, afford and effund this purple juice : indeed a whole family of Shells still retain the name of Purpuræ, or purples, from this property.
1776, Emanuel Mendes da Costa, Elements Of Conchology
Origin
- Latineffundō
- Englisheffund
From Latin effundō. See effuse.
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