suffusive, a.
(səˈfjuːsɪv)
[f. L. suffūs- (see suffuse) + -ive.]
Tending to suffuse or spread.
| 1872 Geo. Eliot Middlem. 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. Meth. 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. |