Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1. (
v. t.) To pour out and cause to spread; to cause to flow on all sides; to spread; as to diffuse information; to circulate; to disseminate; to scatter.
2. (v. i.) To pass by spreading every way, to diffuse itself.
3. (a.) Poured out; widely spread; not restrained; copious; full; esp., of style, opposed to concise or terse; verbose; prolix; as, a diffuse style; a diffuse writer.
Greek
4137. pleroo -- to make full, to complete ... From pleres; to make replete, ie (literally) to cram (a net), level up (a hollow),
or (figuratively) to furnish (or imbue,
diffuse, influence), satisfy
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2237. zarar -- to sneeze... sneeze. A primitive root (compare zuwr); perhaps to
diffuse, ie (specifically) to
sneeze -- sneeze. see HEBREW zuwr. 2236b, 2237. zarar. 2238 .
... /hebrew/2237.htm - 6k 2219. zarah -- to scatter, fan, winnow
... A primitive root (compare zuwr); to toss about; by implication, to diffuse, winnow --
cast away, compass, disperse, fan, scatter (away), spread, strew, winnow. ...
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Library
The Dew and the Plants
... the year referred to in my text, but that the word really means the heavy
night-clouds that come upon the wings of the south-west wind, to diffuse moisture ...
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Jehoshaphat's Reform
... So, side by side with the removal of idolatry, this king took care to diffuse the
knowledge of the true worship, by sending out a body of influential ...
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The New Sinai
... That apprenticeship deepens the conception of the peace which Christ's subjects
are to diffuse. It is, first and chiefly, the peace ...
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Books on Introduction, Bible Dictionaries and Related Works.
... Edinburgh 1866. Sound works of a Puritan divine, learned but somewhat
diffuse. CALVIN, Commentaries in Opera, Vols.24-55. There ...
/.../drummond/introduction to the new testament/i books on introduction bible.htm
Genesis
... worlds are born (i.). The style, too, differs as the theological conceptions do:
it is impossible not to feel the difference between the diffuse, precise, and ...
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The Theme of Acts
... every good. You cannot diffuse education, but you diffuse the taste for
rubbish and something worse, in the shape of books. No good ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture the acts/the theme of acts.htm
Jeremiah
... But there is fairly good reason for supposing that this passage, which is diffuse,
and very unlike the poems that follow it, vv.15, 16, 18-20, is one of the ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/mcfadyen/introduction to the old testament/jeremiah.htm
Introduction.
... in the character of the narrative in the two parts causes also some difference in
the language, which in the earlier section is more diffuse and more difficult ...
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Translator's Preface.
... of his novels. He no longer cares about the form of his work, and his style
is often slipshod, involved, and diffuse. It has been ...
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Of the Discipline and Advantage of Chastity.
... And I indeed, except that I have proposed to admonish you with brevity, think the
most diffuse praises due, and could set forth abundant laudations of chastity ...
/.../of the discipline and advantage.htm
Thesaurus
Diffuse (1 Occurrence)... 1. (vt) To pour out and cause to spread; to cause to flow on all sides; to spread;
as to
diffuse information; to circulate; to disseminate; to scatter.
.../d/diffuse.htm - 7kDifficulty (12 Occurrences)
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Dig (24 Occurrences)
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Large (235 Occurrences)
... city. 2. (superl.) Abundant; ample; as, a large supply of provisions. 3. (superl.)
Full in statement; diffuse; full; profuse. 4. (superl ...
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Tare (4 Occurrences)
... 3. (n.) A name of several climbing or diffuse leguminous herbs of the genus
Vicia; especially, the V. sativa, sometimes grown for fodder. ...
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Enlarge (18 Occurrences)
... enlarges by rarefaction. 5. (vi) To speak or write at length; to be diffuse
in speaking or writing; to expatiate; to dilate. 6. (vi) To ...
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Expand (3 Occurrences)
... 1. (vt) To increase in area or scope; to lay open by extending; to open wide;
to spread out; to diffuse; as, a flower expands its leaves. ...
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Disperse (13 Occurrences)
... 1. (vt) To scatter abroad; to drive to different parts; to distribute; to diffuse;
to spread; as, the Jews are dispersed among all nations. ...
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Dissolve (4 Occurrences)
... 1. (vt) To diffuse; to break down; to melt into; to separate into competent parts;
as, to dissolve sugar; to dissolve a company; to disorganize; to break up ...
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Derive (1 Occurrence)
... 2. (vt) To turn the course of, as water; to divert and distribute into subordinate
channels; to diffuse; to communicate; to transmit; -- followed by to, into ...
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