Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Sprinkling; adapted to spread or sprinkle.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of a nature to flow over, or to spread through.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Tending to
flow over, or tospread through.
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Examples
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In fact, though plentifully gifted with wit, there was not a particle of real humour in him; none of that subtle and perfusive essence out of which the true comic is spun; for these choice powers can hardly live but in the society of certain moral elements that seem to have been left out of his composition.
Shakespeare His Life Art And Characters Hudson, H N 1872
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For humour is nowise a distinct or separable thing with him, but a perfusive and permeating ingredient of his make-up: it acts as a sort of common solvent, in which different and even opposite lines of thought, states of mind, and forms of life are melted into happy reconcilement and co-operation.
Shakespeare His Life Art And Characters Hudson, H N 1872
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In fact, though plentifully gifted with wit, there was not a particle of real humour in him; none of that subtle and perfusive essence out of which the true comic is spun; for these choice powers can hardly live but in the society of certain moral elements that seem to have been left out of his composition.
Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England Henry Norman Hudson 1850
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But, indeed, this sort of honest guile runs all through the piece as a perfusive and permeating efficacy.
The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar William Shakespeare 1590
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a distinct or separable thing with him, but a perfusive and permeating ingredient of his make-up: it acts as a sort of common solvent, in which different and even opposite lines of thought, states of mind, and forms of life are melted into happy reconcilement and co-operation.
Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England Henry Norman Hudson 1850
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