infuseとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈfjuz/
• 韻: -uːz

動詞

infuse (三人称単数 現在形 infuses, 現在分詞 infusing, 過去形および過去分詞形 infused)

1. (transitive) To cause to become an element of something; to insert or fill.
2. (transitive) To steep in a liquid, so as to extract the soluble constituents (usually medicinal または herbal).
   • 1806-1831, John Redman Coxe, The American Dispensatory

     One scruple of the dried leaves is infused in ten ounces of warm water.

3. (transitive) To inspire; to inspirit or animate; to fill (with).
   • c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act V, scene iv]:

     Infuse his breast with magnanimity.

   • 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene ii]:

     infusing him with self and vain conceit

   • 1838, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Duty and Inclination, volume II, London: Henry Colburn, page 219:

     The uproar of the sea, the yell of the Indians, the rapidity with which the boat at intervals was driven, threatening at every moment to be engulphed, might have infused terror into the most undaunted; […]

4. (transitive) To instill as a quality.
   • c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, scene i]:

     That souls of animals infuse themselves
     Into the trunks of men.

   • c. 1720, Jonathan Swift, An Essay on Modern Education

     Why should he desire to have qualities infused into his son, which himself never possessed, or knew, or found the want of, in the acquisition of his wealth?

5. (intransitive) To undergo infusion.

   Let it infuse for five minutes.

6. (transitive) To make an infusion with (an ingredient); to tincture; to saturate.
   • 1631, Francis [Bacon], “(please specify |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] William Rawley; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], OCLC 1044372886:

     if you infuse Rubarb for an hour ; and crush it well, it will purge better, and bind the Body less after the purġing, than if it stood Twenty four hours

7. (transitive, obsolete) To pour in, as a liquid; to pour (into または upon); to shed.
   • 1668, John Denham, The Progress of Learning

     That strong Circean liquor cease t’infuse.

関連する語

• infusion
• suffuse

参考

• fuse

参照

• 1902 Webster's International dictionary.
• 1984 Consise Oxford 7th ed.

Latin

Participle

īnfūse

1. vocative masculine singular of īnfūsus