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suffuse, v.|səˈfjuːz|
[f. L. suffūs-, pa. ppl. stem of suffundĕre, f. suf- = sub- 2, 26 + fundĕre to pour.]
1. trans. To overspread as with a fluid, a colour, a gleam of light.
a. of tears, moisture. Chiefly pass.
1590[see suffused 1]. 1600Fairfax Tasso xii. lxxiv, His eies vnclos'd, with teares suffused. 1754Hume Hist. Eng., Chas. I, x. I. 461 Hamilton long followed him with his eyes, all suffused in tears. 1773–83Hoole Orl. Fur. xviii. 1162 While tears his cheeks suffuse. 1797S. & Ht. Lee Canterb. T. (1799) I. 352 His whole frame [was] suffused with a cold dew. 1838Prescott Ferd. & Is. xiii. II. 115 Every eye was suffused with tears.
b. of light, air, fire, colour. Often in fig. context.
1728–46Thomson Spring 1086 Dark looks succeed; Suffus'd, and glaring with untender fire. 1786tr. Beckford's Vathek (1883) 33 To hide the blush of mortification that suffused their foreheads. 1813Shelley Q. Mab vi. 25 A kindling gleam of hope Suffused the Spirit's lineaments. 1818Wordsw. Even. Volunt. ix. 45 Yon hazy ridges..Climbing suffused with sunny air. 1860Tyndall Glac. i. xxv. 184 The glorious light..suffused with gold and crimson the atmosphere itself. 1877Black Green Past. xxxv. 283 The beautiful colour that for a second suffused her blushing face. 1882Garden 5 Aug. 119/1 Sepals and flowers white, suffused at base with rosy lilac.
c. transf. and fig.
1813Coleridge Night-scene 43 Eyes suffused with rapture. 1867J. B. Rose tr. Virg. æneid 160 The crowded ranks Of disembodied Shades suffused the banks. 1868Helps Realmah ii. (1876) 10 The most commonplace objects being suffused with beauty. 1876Holland Sev. Oaks xv. 234 The amused expression suffused the lawyer's face. 1879S. C. Bartlett Egypt to Pal. v. 101 The life and literature of the nation were suffused with these reminiscences.
2. To pour (a liquid) over a surface. (Also refl.) Chiefly in fig. context.
1734tr. Rollin's Roman Hist. (1827) III. vii. 328 Suffusing over the study of philosophy the dye of rhetoric. 1815Ann. Reg., Chron. 92/2 Water, sugar, &c. from the boiler and pans..suffused thickly upon the trees. 1829I. Taylor Enthus. x. 282 The healing flood of Christian truth shall suffuse itself in all directions. 1854Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. XV. ii. 427 Springs, suffused from higher grounds. |
