interfuse

From inter- +‎ fuse.

interfuse (third-person singular simple present interfuses, present participle interfusing, simple past and past participle interfused)

1. To fuse or blend together
   • 1861, Various, Atlantic Monthly, Volume 8, No. 48, October, 1861‎:

     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.

   • 1909, William James, A Pluralistic Universe‎:

     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.

   • 1914, May Sinclair, The Three Sisters‎:

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

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

     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.