different between affused vs affuse

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affused

Borrowed from Latin affund? (“I pour, sprinkle, or scatter onto”, perfect passive participial stem: aff?s-)

affuse (third-person singular simple present affuses, present participle affusing, simple past and past participle affused)

(transitive) To pour out or upon.
- 1661, Robert Boyle, The Sceptical Chymist
  [I] poured on them acid liquors, to try if they contained any volatile salt or spirit, which (had there been any there) would probably have discovered itself by making an ebullition with the affused liquor.

aff?se

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