transfundo

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

trans-fundo, fūdi, fūsum, 3, v. a., to pour out from one vessel into another, to pour off, decant, transfuse.

I Lit.: aquam in alia vasa, Col. 12, 12, 1: harenam liquatam in alias fornaces, Plin. 36, 26, 66, § 194; 33, 6, 34, § 103.—Poet.: aliquem mortuum in urnam, i. e. to deposit the ashes , Luc. 8, 769. —Mid.: sanguis in eas venas transfunditur, pours or discharges itself , Cels. praef. med.

II Trop.: omnes suas laudes ad aliquem, to transfer , Cic. Fam. 9, 14, 4: omnem amorem in hanc, id. Phil. 2, 31, 77: eorum mores in Macedonas, Curt. 8, 8, 13: divinum spiritum in effigies mutas, Tac. A. 4, 52: errantes animas, Petr. 79.

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