reinfund
English
Etymology
From re- + Latin infundere (“to pour in”).
Verb
reinfund (third-person singular simple present reinfunds, present participle reinfunding, simple past and past participle reinfunded)
- (obsolete) To flow in again.
- 1704, [Jonathan Swift], “Section IX”, in A Tale of a Tub. […], London: […] John Nutt, […], →OCLC:
- The best part of his Diet, is the Reversion of his own Ordure, which expiring into Steams, whirls perpetually about, and at last reinfunds.
References
- “reinfund”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.