▪ I. infusible, a.1
(ɪnˈfjuːzɪb(ə)l)
[f. in-3 + fusible. Cf. F. infusible (1760 in Hatz.-Darm.).]
Not fusible; incapable of being fused or melted.
| 1555 Eden Decades 341 An earthye substaunce infusible and not able to bee molten. 1650 Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. ii. i. (1659) 40 Vitrification is..a fusion of the salt and earth..wherein the fusible salt draws the earth and infusible part into one continuum. 1796 Kirwan Elem. Min. (ed. 2) I. 6 Pure lime, except placed in clay, is infusible. 1870 J. Yeats Nat. Hist. Comm. 112 The infusible and rare metal platinum. |
| fig. 1877 Owen Mrq. Wellesley's Desp. Introd. 44 The beauty of the style, unimpaired..by the amalgam of infusible Orientalisms. |
Hence inˈfusibleness, the quality of being infusible.
| In recent Dicts. |
▪ II. inˈfusible, a.2 rare—1.
[ad. L. type *infūsibilis, f. ppl. stem of L. infundĕre to pour in: see infuse.]
Capable of being infused.
| a 1660 Hammond (J.), The doctrines being infusible into all. |
Hence infusiˈbility2.
| 1828 in Webster; and in mod. Dicts. |