单词 | suffusive |
释义 | suffusiveadj. Tending to suffuse or spread. ΘΚΠ the world > space > extension in space > spreading or diffusion > [adjective] > spreading or diffusing spreading1532 outspreading1603 diffusive1610 diffusing1655 diffusile1727 suffusive1872 farther-spreading1876 the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > [adjective] > covered > covered over > overspread with fluid, light, or colour > tending to spread over suffusive1872 1872 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch I. ii. xvi. 295 That agreeable after-glow of excitement when thought lapses from examination of a specific object into a suffusive sense of its connections with all the rest of our existence. 1889 J. M. Robertson Ess. Crit. Method 152 Interest in the love-stories and satisfaction in the minor character-drawing have passed into retrospection and suffusive musing. 1891 Harper's Mag. June 65/1 Purple and saffron and a suffusive blood-red flush. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < adj.1872 |
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