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Affusion

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The pouring of liquid, especially as a hydrotherapy. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    the act of baptizing someone by pouring water on their head wordnet
  3. 3
    A method of Christian baptism in which water is poured on the head of the person being baptized. countable, uncountable

Etymology

From Latin affusio, from Latin affundō (“to pour or sprinkle onto”), from Latin fundō (“to pour”), from Proto-Italic *hundō (“to pour out”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰewd- (“to pour”).

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