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Definition of Effuses
1. effuse [v] - See also: effuse
Lexicographical Neighbors of Effuses
Literary usage of Effuses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Writings of John Burroughs by John Burroughs (1896)
"The spirit that animates every page of his book, and that it always effuses, is
the spirit of common, universal humanity, — humanity apart ..."
2. Chemical calculations by Raymond Harman Ashley (1915)
"(a) If 30.82 cc. of oxygen (density to air, 1.1055) effuses through a small orifice
... (c) 150 cc. of air effuses in the same time as 63.82 cc. of bromine. ..."
3. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"... the verdant plains, And banging mountains, strike at once the sight With varied
pleasure; as th1 abstracted ray, Which soft effuses from ..."
4. American Anthropologist by American Anthropological Association (1902)
"... or effuses his orenda, and thereby learned the secrets of the future; the
orenda of shy animals and birds which it is difficult to snare or to kill, ..."
5. The Seasons by James Thomson, Partick Murdoch (1847)
"... he makes, As humour leads, an easy-winding path ; v While, from his polish'd
sides, a dewy light effuses on the pleas'd spectators round. ..."
6. Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1897)
"He does not state his argument so much as he speaks out of it and effuses its
atmosphere. Then he is avowedly the poet of vista: to open doors and windows, ..."
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