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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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4 words match “DIFFUSELY”

DIFFUSELY adv.
In a diffuse manner.
DILATE v.
To enlarge upon; to relate at large; to tell copiously or diffusely. [R.] Do me the favor to dilate at full What hath befallen of them and thee till now. Shak.
LARGE a.
large. (a) Without restraint or confinement; as, to go at large; to be left at large. (b) Diffusely; fully; in the full extent; as, to discourse on a subject at large. -- Common at large. See under Common, n. -- Electors at large, Representative at large, electors, or a representative, as in Congress, chosen to repre…
TREAT v.
urse on; to handle in a particular manner, in writing or speaking; as, to treat a subject diffusely.