interfuse

present singular third person interfuses · participle present interfusing · participle past interfused · past interfused

1. To fuse or blend together

   It was interfused and tangled with Greatorex's sublimest feelings.

   1914, May Sinclair, The Three Sisters

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   They seem to be so interfused with the emotions of the soul, that they strike upon the heart almost like the living touch of a spirit.

   1861, Various, Atlantic Monthly, Volume 8, No. 48, October, 1861

   Novelty, as empirically found, doesn't arrive by jumps and jolts, it leaks in insensibly, for adjacents in experience are always interfused, the smallest real datum being both a coming and a going, and even numerical distinctness being realized effectively only after a concrete interval has passed.

   1909, William James, A Pluralistic Universe

   It is obvious that these three streams would mingle and interfuse with each other a good deal; but as far as they were separable the first would tend to create Solar heroes and Sun-myths; the second Vegetation-gods and personifications of Nature and the earth-life; while the third would throw its glamour over the other two and contribute to the projection of deities or demons worshipped with all sorts of sexual and phallic rites.

   1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 20

   Synonyms: intermingle