Affusion: alternatives and connections

To take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.; esp. to take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be…

a legal proceeding that creates a parent-child relation between persons not related by blood; the adopted child is entitled to all pri…

To fix the paternity of; -- said of an illegitimate child; as, to affiliate the child to (or on or upon) one man rather than another.

The service or ceremony of sprinkling with holy water.

The brush used in the Roman Catholic church for sprinkling holy water on the people.

A sprinkling, as with water or dust, in a literal sense.

A brush for sprinkling holy water; an aspergill.

One of a denomination of Christians who deny the validity of infant baptism and of sprinkling, and maintain that baptism should be adm…

A "natural" child; a child begotten and born out of wedlock; an illegitimate child; one born of an illicit union.

To apply water or some liquid medicament to; as, to bathe the eye with warm water or with sea water; to bathe one's forehead with camp…

The act of sprinkling anything; a sprinkling over.

Pottage made by pouring some boiling liquid on meal (esp. oatmeal), and stirring it. It is called beef brose, water brose, etc., accor…

To form into a particular shape, by pouring liquid metal or other material into a mold; to fashion; to found; as, to cast bells, stove…

One who, by character of practice, shows signs of relationship to, or of the influence of, another; one closely connected with a place…

A child which died within a month after its baptism; -- so called from the chrisom cloth which was used as a shroud for it.

To repeat the distillation of, pouring the liquor back upon the matter remaining in the vessel.

The act of pouring out; as, effusion of water, of blood, of grace, of words, and the like.

Pouring out; pouring forth freely.