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diffused

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1. diffused - Adjective

2. diffused - Verb

4. diffused - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

of Diffuse

Spread abroad; dispersed; loose; flowing; diffuse.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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When the mind is not dissipated upon extraneous things, nor diffused over the world about us through the senses, it withdraws within itself, and of its own accord ascends to the contemplation of God. Basil of Caesarea

Antoninus diffused order and tranquility over the greatest part of the earth. His reign is marked by the rare advantage of furnishing very few materials for history; which is, indeed, little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. Edward Gibbon

Diffused knowledge immortalizes itself. James Mackintosh

That good diffused may more abundant grow. William Cowper

A single and distinct luminous body causes stronger relief in the objects than a diffused light; as may be seen by comparing one side of a landscape illuminated by the sun, and one overshadowed by clouds, and illuminated only by the diffused light of the atmosphere. Leonardo da Vinci

Management is the gate through which social and economic and political change, indeed change in every direction, is diffused through society. Robert McNamara

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