effund

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English

Etymology

From Latin effundō. See effuse.

Pronunciation

Verb

effund (third-person singular simple present effunds, present participle effunding, simple past and past participle effunded)

  1. (obsolete) To pour out.
    • 1642, Henry More, The Life of the Soul:
      If he his life effund To utmost death, the high God hath design'd That we both live.
    • 1776, Emanuel Mendes da Costa, Elements Of Conchology:
      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.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “effund”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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