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Definition of Perfusive
1. a. Of a nature to flow over, or to spread through.
Definition of Perfusive
1. Adjective. Tending to flow over, or to spread through. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Perfusive
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Perfusive
Literary usage of Perfusive
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. English Belles-lettres from A.D. 907 to 1834 by Boethius, Roger Ascham, George Gascoigne, Philip Sidney, John Selden, Thomas Browne, John Arbuthnot, Henry St. John Bolingbroke, Thomas Chatterton, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Herbert Gordon Leight (1901)
"... above all, the perfusive and omnipresent grace which have preserved, as in a
shrine of precious amber, the Sparrow of Catullus, the Swallow, ..."
2. The United States and Cuba by James Mursell Phillippo (1857)
"Sheds a perfusive gentleness around, While wood, and water, and the cloudless
sky Lose each their features and peculiar hues, In something lovelier than the ..."
3. Lectures on Shakespeare by Henry Norman Hudson (1848)
"Throughout the play "there seems a glory round about us, and she the angel of
the vision;" the perfusive vivifying grace of her character irradiating the ..."
4. The Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Prose and Verse by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1853)
"... the facility; the delicate proportion; and, above alt, the perfusive and
omnipresent grace, which have preserved, ne in a shrine of precious amber, ..."
5. A Manual of Physiology: With Practical Exercises by George Neil Stewart (1918)
"That the reaction of the perfusive fluid is of great importance in connection
with the origination of rhythm is well established, and it is an interesting ..."
6. Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1907)
"... who should recall the high finish, the appropriateness, the facility, the
delicate proportion, and above all, the perfusive and omnipresent grace, ..."
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