Perfundo, perfundis, perfúdi, perfûsum, pen. prod. perfúndere. Li. To pour out on euery part: to wash al about: al to wash: al to shed vpon: to poure vpon al ouer and ouer: al to sprinckle.Aqua feruenti Rubrio ipso Philodamus perfunditur.Cic.Rubrius sprinkled or cast sealding water on PhilodamusFluuijs perfundunt pecus magistri.Virg.The maisters all to wash their cattel in the riuers.Artus perfundere rore.Ouid.To sprinckle the parts of ones hodie with dewe.Auro perfundere tecta. Sen. To guilt houses.Ensis perfunditur sanguine.Ouid.The sworde is all to berayed with bloud. Perfundere animum religione. per translationem, pro Imbuere. Liu.To make to haue a seruple of conscience to do a thing.Perfundere animos suauitate. Ci. Pleasantly to delight mÊs mindes. Animum perfundere voluptate. Cice. Aceto quempiam perfundere, Vide ACETVM.Perfundi iucunditate, lætitia, voluptaribus: pro Repleri. Ci. To be greatly delighted: to be verie merie: to liue all in pleasure.Oratione quasi voluptate quadam perfundi.Cic.Perfundere aliquem iudicio. Ci. To force one to come before a iudge and make his aunsweare.Perfudit me horror.Cic.Al my body trembled: I was sore afraide.Perfundor.To be all imbrued.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
per-fundo, fūdi, fūsum, 3, v. a., to pour over, to wet, moisten, bedew, besprinkle (class.; syn.: umecto, aspergo, imbuo). I.Lit.: aquā ferventi Philodamus perfunditur, Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 26, 67: fluviis pecus, Verg. G. 3, 445: greges flumine, id. ib. 2, 147: perfusus liquidis odoribus, Hor. C. 1, 5, 2: postquam perfusus est, had bathed, Auct. Her. 4, 10, 14: panis perfusus aquā frigidā, Suet. Aug. 77: pisces olivo, Hor. S. 2, 4, 50: aliquem lacrimis, Ov. H. 11, 115; so, poet.: Aurorae lacrimis perfusus,
living far in the East
, Sil. 3, 332: perfundi nardo, Hor. Epod. 13, 9: boves hic perfunduntur,
bathe themselves
, Varr. R. R. 1, 13, 3; Plin. 18, 7, 14, 72.—B.Transf.1.To pour into any thing (post-Aug.): sextarios musti in vas, Col. 12, 24, 3.—2.To cause to flow out, i. e. to knock out an eye (post-class.): ut oculus puero perfunderetur, Dig. 9, 2, 5, 3 dub. (al. perfodere or effundere).—3. Of perspiration or of streams, to pour or flow over, to drench, bathe (poet. and in post-Aug. prose): ossaque et artus Perfundit toto proruptus corpore sudor, Verg. A. 7, 459: tot amnium fontiumque ubertas totam Italiam perfundens, Plin. 3, 5, 6, 41: Venafrano (oleo) piscem perfundere, Juv. 5, 86.—4. Of garments, to steep, dye (poet.): ostro Perfusae vestes,
steeped in purple
, Verg. A. 5, 112.—5.To scatter or sprinkle over, to besprinkle, bestrew (poet.): canitiem immundo perfusam pulvere turpans, Verg. A. 12, 611: sanguine currum, Verg. A. 11, 88: penates sanguine, Ov. M. 5, 155: Lethaeo perfusa papavera somno, Verg. G. 1, 78: scena perfusa croco, Lucr. 2, 416.— 6.To cover (poet. and in post-Aug. prose): omne genus perfusa coloribus, Lucr. 2, 821: auro tecta, Sen. Ep. 115, 9: pedes amictu, Mart. 7, 33, 3.—7. Of the sun's beams or fire, to flood or fill (poet. and in post-Aug. prose): sol perfundens omnia luce, Lucr. 2, 148; cf. Luc. 7, 215: cubiculum plurimo sole perfunditur, Plin. Ep. 5, 6, 24: campos lumine (facis), Sil. 10, 558.—II.Trop.A.To imbue, inspire, fill with any thing (class.): ad perfundendum animum tamquam illiquefactae voluptates, Cic. Tusc. 4, 9, 20: sensus jucunditate quādam perfunditur, id. Fin. 2, 3, 6: sensus dulcedine omni quasi perfusi, id. ib. 2, 34, 114: di immortales, qui me horror perfudit!id. Att. 8, 6, 3: laetitiā, id. Fin. 5, 24, 70: gaudio, Liv. 30, 16: timore, id. 2, 63.—2. In partic., to fill with the apprehension of any thing, i. e. to disturb, disquiet, alarm: nos judicio perfundere, Cic. Rosc. Am. 29, 80: litora bello rapido, Sil. 15, 301; cf.: (Mars) perfusus pectora tempestate belli, Stat. Th. 3, 228. —B.To imbue slightly, make superficially acquainted with any thing (the fig. being borrowed from dyeing; post-Aug.): perseveret perbibere liberalia studia, non illa, quibus perfundi satis est, sed haec, quibus tingendus est animus, Sen. Ep. 36, 3; cf.: acceperit: si illā (notitiā) se non perfuderit, sed infecerit, id. ib. 110, 8.