affusion
(noun) the act of baptizing someone by pouring water on their head
Source: WordNet® 3.1
affusion (countable and uncountable, plural affusions)
The pouring of liquid, especially as a hydrotherapy.
A method of Christian baptism in which water is poured on the head of the person being baptized.
Sometimes confused with effusion (“an outpouring of liquid”).
Source: Wiktionary
Af*fu"sion, n. Etym: [Cf. F. affusion.]
Definition: The act of pouring upon, or sprinkling with a liquid, as water upon a child in baptism. Specifically: (Med)
Definition: The act of pouring water or other fluid on the whole or a part of the body, as a remedy in disease. Dunglison.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
25 February 2025
(adverb) (spatial sense) seeming to have no bounds; “the Nubian desert stretched out before them endlessly”
According to Guinness World Records, the largest iced coffee is 14,228.1 liters and was created by Caffé Bene (South Korea), in Yangju, South Korea, on 17 July 2014. They poured iced black Americano on the giant cup that measured 3.3 meters tall and 2.62 meters wide.
