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effusive, a. (and n.)|ɛˈfjuːsɪv|
[f. L. effūs- (see effuse a.) + -ive as if ad. L. effūsīvus.]
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a. That proceeds from a pouring out. Obs.
1725Pope Odyss. xxii. 490 The floor Wash'd with th' effusive wave. 1791E. Darwin Bot. Gard. i. iii. 1781 With fine films..Of oil effusive lull the waves to sleep.
b. Geol. [G. (H. Rosenbusch Mikrosk. Physiographie d. Massigen Gesteine (ed. 2, 1887) 6).] Of an igneous rock: poured out on the earth's surface in a state of fusion and afterwards solidified; so effusive period, the period in which effusive rocks were formed. Also n., an effusive rock.
1888F. H. Hatch in J. J. H. Teall Brit. Petrogr. 429 Effusive, a term lately used abroad for those rocks which have been poured out at the surface, the word eruptive now being generally used for the whole group of massive rocks. 1895A. Harker Petrol. 128 The two periods of consolidation were styled by Rosenbusch the ‘intratelluric’ and the ‘effusive’. 1897G. P. Merrill Treat. Rocks ii. i. 60 To divide the eruptive rocks into two general groups: first, the intrusive or plutonic rocks; and second, the effusive or volcanic rocks. 1903Amer. Jrnl. Sci. XVI. 121 An origin contemporaneous with that of the Rossland effusives. 1903A. Geikie Text-bk. Geol. (ed. 4) 197 The effusive or volcanic rocks (Erguss-gesteine). 1905J. Geikie Struct. & Field Geol. 206 Effusive rocks..are of two types, crystalline and fragmental. 1915W. Lindgren in W. N. Rice et al. Probl. Amer. Geol. v. 273 Basalt is probably the most widely spread of the Tertiary effusives. 1939A. Johannsen Descr. Petrogr. (ed. 2) I. i. 5 The effusive or extrusive rocks (vulcanites of Scheerer) are those which were poured out upon the surface of the earth; for example, our modern lavas... In this group are also included certain other rocks which, strictly speaking, are not extrusives, namely, the pyroclastics.
2. Of emotions, affections, etc.: Overflowing, irrepressible; in mod. use, demonstratively expressed.
1662H. More Enthus. Tri., Scholia (1712) 52 The innocence of his private Life, and his most effusive Charity and Humanity. 1863Geo. Eliot Romola in Cornh. Mag. VII. 304 Tito could only be saved from alienation by..a recovery of her effusive tenderness.
3. That expresses feeling demonstratively.
1863Mrs. Oliphant Salem Ch. xxi. 12 A very effusive hymn..an utterance of unmitigated thanksgiving. 1879McCarthy Own Times I. 358 Peel..was not effusive; he did not pour out his emotions.
4. That has the function of giving outlet to emotion. rare.
1855Bain Senses & Int. iii. iv. §27 (1864) 622 The purely effusive arts, such as music or the dance.
Hence eˈffusively adv., in an effusive manner. eˈffusiveness, the quality of being effusive.
1870Daily News 22 July 3 You came upon damsels..who giggled and talked effusively by the wayside. 1877H. Page De Quincy I. iii. 46 The enthusiastic effusiveness of these lines. 1880Mrs. Forrester Roy & Viola I. 40 Netta embraced her effusively. 1879Farrar St. Paul (1883) 529 None of the tender effusiveness and earnest praise which we have been hearing. |