diffuselyadv.

a1425 J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1869) I. 391 It sufficide to Mathew to telle how Crist bicam man.., biginnynge at Abraham. But Luk..telliþ more diffuseli how man stieþ up to God, from Adam to þe Trinite.

1531 tr. E. Fox et al. Determinations Moste Famous Vniuersities f. 11^v Euery man sayd his mynde and the matter was debated and resoned diffusely and at large.

1662 J. Glanvill Lux Orientalis xi. 113 These places have bin more diffusely urged in a late discourse to this purpose.

1783 H. Blair Lect. Rhetoric II. xviii. 14 A sentiment, which, expressed diffusely, will barely be admitted to be just, expressed concisely, will be admired as spirited.

1839 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe III. iv. 403 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.

1886 L. Campbell & E. Abbott Sophocles (rev. ed.) II. 129 Creon's remark is intended to draw a distinction between speaking diffusely and speaking to the point.

1919 Econ. Geol. 14 646 The papers are rather diffusely written and abound in repetitions.

2006 M. S. Muldoon Tricks of Time 266 This passage..much more concisely distinguishes durée from ordinary time; however, the same understanding of durée is stated more diffusely in Time and Free Will.

c1530 A. Barclay Egloges ii. sig. Liij^v Dyffusly thou spekyst, & to vnderstande.

a1556 T. Cranmer Aunswere vnto Craftie & Sophisticall Cauillation (1580) 352 Eyther I vnderstand you not in this place (you speake so diffusely) or els that thing which the Master spake,..you cal it a tollerable conceit fondly vttered.

1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Diffuselye, diffuse.

1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus at Diffusè Diffusely as it were scattered here and there.

1639 J. Sherburne tr. Ovid Heroical Epist. sig. C3 Leaves when dry, Which 'fore each easie gale diffusely flye.

1685 P. Rycaut Continuation 38 in tr. Platina Lives Popes That Cause..began now to dilate and spread more diffusely amongst the people.

1718 N. Rowe tr. Lucan Pharsalia vi. 936 Pleas'd that her magic Fame diffusely flies.

1846 W. S. Landor Imaginary Conversat. 2nd Ser. in Wks. I. 464/2 The sun colours the sky most deeply and most diffusely when he hath sunk below the horizon.

1874 tr. E. Lommel Nature of Light (ed. 4) 12 The light is diffusely reflected from their surface.

a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) II. 1308 In a simple animal like a sea-anemone there is no brain nor nerve-centre of any kind, but there are numerous neurons diffusely distributed.

1963 P. A. Munz Calif. Mountain Wildflowers (1972) 34 A low diffusely branched shrub.

2005 Pathol. Res. & Pract. 200 813 As this lesion was found to be growing diffusely along the bronchial tree, a left pneumonectomy was performed.