diffusively, adv.
(dɪˈfjuːsɪvlɪ)
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
In a diffusive manner or condition; see the adj.
| 1628 T. Spencer Logick 54 It is diffusiuely good, in as much as it is fit..to bestow good vpon others. 1677 Hale Prim. Orig. Man. ii. vii. 198 Whether the primitive..Animals..were diffusively created over the habitable or dry Ground as Vegetables were. 1710 Managers' Pro & Con 67 May the Influence of good Examples..be.. diffusively prevailing. 1773 J. Allen Serm. St. Mary's Oxford 18 So diffusively hath this doctrine descended to posterity. 1787 Hawkins Johnson 129 Rhapsodically and diffusively eloquent. 1816 Chron. in Ann. Reg. 543 It branches more diffusively. 1868 Gladstone Juv. Mundi iii. (1869) 75 Probably Thracians existed diffusively, like Pelasgians, among the Greeks. 1869 M. Somerville Molec. Sc. i. iii. 110 The particles of the crystals unite diffusively with the water. |
† b. In, or with respect to, the individual members; individually, severally; cf. diffusive 3. Obs.
| 1644 Narr. Beginnings & Causes War 19 The Subjects of the Kingdome of England diffusively considered cannot take up Armes against the King, and how then can their Representatives assembled in Parliament? 1644 Bp. Maxwell Prerog. Chr. Kings ii. 25 The people all and every one, diffusively, collectively, representatively. 1710 Bentley Phil. Lips. §35 (T.), Ἐκκλησία..means diffusively the whole community of the Christian name. |