perfundere

perfundere [CL] 1 to pour out (completely). qui perfunderit [v. l. funderit] calicem in fine solemnitatis, xxx dies peniteat Egb. Pen. 12. 7. 2 to overspread: a (w. light); b (w. loose solid, in quot. seeds). a milites ‥ putentissimis [v. l. potentissimis] illum ~unt [gl.: circumfuderunt] lotii [gl.: urinae] nidoribus Aldh. VirgP 35 p. 279; Maria Magdalena caput Domini nardo ~ens [cf. Marc. xiv 3: effudit super caput ejus] Bede Cant. 1163; omni quarta feria his ferventibus liquoribus ~ebantur Coggesh. Visio 29; cujus aquis ‥ si petram ‥ perfuderis Gir. TH II 8; granum terre commistum primo oportet ~i [Trevisa:be shadde] humiditate aquea et aerea Bart. Angl. IV 4; c1400 defectus fenestrarum ‥ faciant reparari, ne stalli et ibi stantes pluviis vel nivibus ~antur Stat. Linc. II 355.  b lux cuncta ea loca perfuderat Bede HE V 12 p. 307; cum ‥ terram ‥ aratam tritici semine jam ~eret Gir. TH II 49. 3 to suffuse (w. light, colour, or other surface phenomenon); also w. light as subj; b (transf. & fig.). faciem purpureo colore perfusam gerit Greg. Mir. Rom. 12; nam dum eum [Constantinum] in anima salvare voluit, in toto corpore lepra perfudit. his a Silvestro papa ‥ baptizatur, mox a lepra mundatur Hon. Spec. Eccl. 947A; integer et blando perfusus membra tepore L. Durh. Hypog. 70; faciem ejus ‥ ita post mortem rubor cum candore permixtus perfuderat Turgot Marg. 13 p. 254; verecundia suo rubore genas ~it Bald. Cant. Serm. 13. 17. 471.  b vij ecclesiarum novalia roscidis sacrorum dogmatum imbribus ‥ perfudit Aldh. Met. 2 p. 66; Spiritus Sancti est gratia perfusa Bede Cant. 1121; nec multo post plene curatus vitali etiam unda perfusus [v. l. perfussus] sum Id. HE V 6 p. 291; dignare ‥ hoc ‥ altare coelesti sanctificatione ~ere ‥ ut Sancti Spiritus illustratione perfulgeat Egb. Pont. 41; tanto gaudio perfusus sum ut ‥ Ailr. Spir. Amicit. III 82. 691; celesti more perfundor quando liquore / utor divino, certo vite duce vino Neckam Poems 453; quidam ‥ in devotis precibus coram ymagine crucifixi ‥ tanta cordis dulcedine ~untur Spec. Incl. 4. 1 p. 128. 4 to spread over (in quot, lead sheets). perficit inde pius prepulchri culmina templi / exterius tabulas perfundens tegmine plumbi Æthelwulf Abb. 144. 5 to make by casting; b (transf.). hanc sibi campanam Dunstan perfundere jussit (Vers.) J. Glast. 131.  b qui sonitans dudum mundum perfuderat omnem Æthelwulf Abb. 638.