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diffusely, adv.|dɪˈfjuːslɪ|
[f. diffuse a. + -ly2.]
In a diffuse manner.
†1. Confusedly, obscurely. Obs.
1515Barclay Egloges ii. (1570) B iv b, Diffusely thou speakest to vnderstande.
2. In a diffused or widespread manner; with wide dispersion.
1552Huloet, Diffuselye, diffuse. 1718Rowe tr. Lucan vi. 936 (Seager), Pleas'd that her magic fame diffusely flies. c1839Landor Wks. (1846) I. 464 The sun colours the sky most deeply and most diffusely when he hath sunk below the horizon. 1870Hooker Stud. Flora 189 Centaurea calcitrapa..diffusely branched. 1874Lommel's Light 12 The light is diffusely reflected from their surface.
3. In many words, verbosely, copiously; fully, at large: the opposite of concisely.
c1380Wyclif Serm. cxvii. Sel. Wks. I. 391 It sufficide to Mathew to telle..biginnynge at Abraham. But Luk..telliþ more diffuseli how man stieþ up to God, from Adam to þe Trinite. 1662Glanvill Lux Orient. xi. (R.), These places have been more diffusely urged in a late discourse to this purpose. 1783H. Blair Lect. xviii. (R.), A sentiment, which, expressed diffusely, will barely be admitted to be just, expressed concisely, will be admired as spirited. 1837Hallam Hist. Lit. iv. iii. §106 That great branch of ethics..has been so diffusely handled by the casuists..that Grotius deserves..credit for the brevity with which he has laid down the simple principles. |