Bible Dictionary: Diffuse

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (v. t.) To pour out and cause to spread; to cause to flow on all sides; to spread; as to diffuse information; to circulate; to disseminate; to scatter.

2. (v. i.) To pass by spreading every way, to diffuse itself.

3. (a.) Poured out; widely spread; not restrained; copious; full; esp., of style, opposed to concise or terse; verbose; prolix; as, a diffuse style; a diffuse writer.

Greek

4137. pleroo -- to make full, to complete
... From pleres; to make replete, ie (literally) to cram (a net), level up (a hollow),
or (figuratively) to furnish (or imbue, diffuse, influence), satisfy ...
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Strong's Hebrew

2237. zarar -- to sneeze
... sneeze. A primitive root (compare zuwr); perhaps to diffuse, ie (specifically) to
sneeze -- sneeze. see HEBREW zuwr. 2236b, 2237. zarar. 2238 . ...
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2219. zarah -- to scatter, fan, winnow
... A primitive root (compare zuwr); to toss about; by implication, to diffuse, winnow --
cast away, compass, disperse, fan, scatter (away), spread, strew, winnow. ...
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Library

The Dew and the Plants
... the year referred to in my text, but that the word really means the heavy
night-clouds that come upon the wings of the south-west wind, to diffuse moisture ...
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Jehoshaphat's Reform
... So, side by side with the removal of idolatry, this king took care to diffuse the
knowledge of the true worship, by sending out a body of influential ...
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The New Sinai
... That apprenticeship deepens the conception of the peace which Christ's subjects
are to diffuse. It is, first and chiefly, the peace ...
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Books on Introduction, Bible Dictionaries and Related Works.
... Edinburgh 1866. Sound works of a Puritan divine, learned but somewhat
diffuse. CALVIN, Commentaries in Opera, Vols.24-55. There ...
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Genesis
... worlds are born (i.). The style, too, differs as the theological conceptions do:
it is impossible not to feel the difference between the diffuse, precise, and ...
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The Theme of Acts
... every good. You cannot diffuse education, but you diffuse the taste for
rubbish and something worse, in the shape of books. No good ...
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Jeremiah
... But there is fairly good reason for supposing that this passage, which is diffuse,
and very unlike the poems that follow it, vv.15, 16, 18-20, is one of the ...
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Introduction.
... in the character of the narrative in the two parts causes also some difference in
the language, which in the earlier section is more diffuse and more difficult ...
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Translator's Preface.
... of his novels. He no longer cares about the form of his work, and his style
is often slipshod, involved, and diffuse. It has been ...
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Of the Discipline and Advantage of Chastity.
... And I indeed, except that I have proposed to admonish you with brevity, think the
most diffuse praises due, and could set forth abundant laudations of chastity ...
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Thesaurus

Diffuse (1 Occurrence)
... 1. (vt) To pour out and cause to spread; to cause to flow on all sides; to spread;
as to diffuse information; to circulate; to disseminate; to scatter. ...
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Difficulty (12 Occurrences)

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Dig (24 Occurrences)

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Large (235 Occurrences)
... city. 2. (superl.) Abundant; ample; as, a large supply of provisions. 3. (superl.)
Full in statement; diffuse; full; profuse. 4. (superl ...
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Tare (4 Occurrences)
... 3. (n.) A name of several climbing or diffuse leguminous herbs of the genus
Vicia; especially, the V. sativa, sometimes grown for fodder. ...
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Enlarge (18 Occurrences)
... enlarges by rarefaction. 5. (vi) To speak or write at length; to be diffuse
in speaking or writing; to expatiate; to dilate. 6. (vi) To ...
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Expand (3 Occurrences)
... 1. (vt) To increase in area or scope; to lay open by extending; to open wide;
to spread out; to diffuse; as, a flower expands its leaves. ...
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Disperse (13 Occurrences)
... 1. (vt) To scatter abroad; to drive to different parts; to distribute; to diffuse;
to spread; as, the Jews are dispersed among all nations. ...
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Dissolve (4 Occurrences)
... 1. (vt) To diffuse; to break down; to melt into; to separate into competent parts;
as, to dissolve sugar; to dissolve a company; to disorganize; to break up ...
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Derive (1 Occurrence)
... 2. (vt) To turn the course of, as water; to divert and distribute into subordinate
channels; to diffuse; to communicate; to transmit; -- followed by to, into ...
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Bible Concordance

Diffuse (1 Occurrence)

Proverbs 15:7 The lips of the wise diffuse knowledge: but the heart of the foolish doeth not so.
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