Oikonomos, however, responds that '' affusion '' (i.e. pouring), and much less '' aspersion '' (i.e. sprinkling), cannot ever be considered baptism.    From Wordnik.com.  [orrologion] Reference

In the interval cold affusion was resorted to by the attendant in charge, but the patient was to all appearances dead.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 470, January 3, 1885] Reference

Cases, which at first were exceptional, gradually multiplied, so that, at length, the ordinary mode of baptism was by affusion.    From Wordnik.com.  [To Infidelity and Back] Reference

That galvanism, ammonia to the nostrils, cold affusion, and stimulants by the mouth are practically useless in the early stage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 470, January 3, 1885] Reference

It is of no consequence at all whether the person that is baptized is totally immersed, or whether he is merely sprinkled by an affusion of water.    From Wordnik.com.  [To Infidelity and Back] Reference

The limit to the affusion is, to stop when the parts become swelled up, and before the swelling subsides; for the parts swell up at first, and fall afterward.    From Wordnik.com.  [On The Surgery] Reference

We employ bandages, compresses, suspension of the limb in a sling, attitude, extension, friction, rectification; and along with these the affusion of much water.    From Wordnik.com.  [On The Surgery] Reference

And at each time the bandages are taken off, much hot water is to be used, for in all injuries at joints the affusion of hot water in large quantity is to be had recourse to.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Fractures] Reference

There were sixty-five additions and fifty-five baptized by affusion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Autobiography and work of Bishop M.F. Jamison, D.D. ("Uncle Joe") : editor, publisher, and Church Extension Secretary : a narration of his whole career from the cradle to the Bishopric of the Colored M. E. Church in America,] Reference

According to Neophytos, affusion is '' accursed, '' while aspersion is.    From Wordnik.com.  [orrologion] Reference

These were effected by immersion, and by affusion and sprinkling; and the same word.    From Wordnik.com.  [Easton's Bible Dictionary] Reference

Here traces of fire, seen on the rock, suggested that it had been split by cold affusion.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Land of Midian — Volume 2] Reference

Phonetics, sound, as or, comprising a stop developing into a fricative. affrication, affusion.    From Wordnik.com.  [xml's Blinklist.com] Reference

Subtract eight ounces of blood; give another physic-ball, and apply cold affusion to the loins.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dog] Reference

Such a moral and spiritual affusion into the life of the young Ostrogoth was the prayer of Chrysostom.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gathering Clouds: A Tale of the Days of St. Chrysostom] Reference

I have always regarded the baptism of Saul as a strong presumptive proof with regard to baptism by affusion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bertha and Her Baptism] Reference

It would be an extreme case which would lead me to administer the ordinance in any other way than by affusion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bertha and Her Baptism] Reference

We have heard how many a life has been saved by an affusion of blood from the pulses of strong and healthy veins.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gathering Clouds: A Tale of the Days of St. Chrysostom] Reference

"Well," some of you may say, "good and great men have believed in and practiced affusion, is it not safe to follow them?".    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the First African Baptist Church, From its Organization, January 20th, 1788, to July 1st, 1888. Including the Centennial Celebration, Addresses, Sermons, Etc.] Reference

If the latter, it may be administered in any mode by which washing can be effected, either by sprinkling, affusion, or immersion.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Commentary on the Epistle to the Ephesians] Reference

At the end of the fifth day his sufferings abated, but the sudden affusion of a small portion of a cold liquid on the head produced a severe fit of epilepsy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cases of Organic Diseases of the Heart] Reference

Catholic): "Since the twelfth century the practice of baptizing by affusion has prevailed in the Catholic.    From Wordnik.com.  [To Infidelity and Back] Reference

Try a cold affusion.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Standard Speller; Containing Exercises for Oral Spelling; also, Sentences for Silent Spelling by Writing from Dictation. In Which the Representative Words and the Anomalous Words of the English Language are so Classified as to Indicate Their Pronunciation, and to be Fixed in the Memory by Association.] Reference

Medicine as before, with cold affusion.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dog] Reference

Bleed to twelve ounces; apply cold affusion.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dog] Reference

(28) Through faith he has kept the passover, and the affusion of the blood, that he who destroyed the first-born might not touch them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Testament of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. The common English version, corrected by the final committee of the American Bible Union.] Reference