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circumfuse, v.|sɜːkəmˈfjuːz|
[f. L. circumfūs-, ppl. stem of circumfundĕre to pour around, to surround, encompass.]
1. trans. To pour, diffuse, or spread (a fluid) around or about (anything).
1648Herrick Hesper., On Julia's Breath, All the spices of the East Are circumfused there. 1664Power Exp. Philos. ii. 101 This vast Element of Air, circumfused about this terraqueous Globe. 1819Playfair Nat. Phil. I. 305 An elastic fluid, circumfused about a solid.
2. To surround (a thing) on all sides with or in (a fluid medium or the like); to bathe. (The surrounding substance may itself be the subject.)
1605B. Jonson Masque Blackness 72 In the lake..Appear'd a face, all circumfused with light. 1791Cowper Odyss. vii. 174 Ulysses..by Minerva thick With darkness circumfus'd. 1805Wordsw. Prelude (1850) 222 The light of beauty did not fall in vain Or grandeur circumfuse them to no end. 1818Byron Ch. Har. iv. lii, Glowing and circumfused in speechless love.
Hence circumfused ppl. a., diffused or spread around; surrounding or enveloping as a fluid.
1596C. Fitzgeffrey Sir F. Drake (1881) 43 Whose tops..Were damp'd with circumfused clouds from sight. 1649Bulwer Pathomyot. ii. iv. 157 The circumfused skin..hath a voluntary motion. 1837Fraser's Mag. XVI. 666 Disperse into thin air the circumfused air. |