ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ED1.]
1. Overspread as with fluid, light, color, etc.
1590. Spenser, F. Q., III. vii. 10. Wiping the teares from her suffused eyes.
1629. Quarles, Argalus & Parthen., II. Wks. (Grosart), III. 264/2. which strongly did importune A world of teares from these suffused eyes.
1805. Med. Jrnl., XIV. 201. The eyes became more suffused and dull.
1878. Browning, La Saisiaz, 71. How suffused a cheek You had turned me had I sudden brought the blush into the smile.
2. Spread over a surface like water. Also fig.
1851. Mrs. Browning, Casa Guidi Wind., I. 817. The deep look which shall drain Suffused thought into channelled enterprise.
1873. Black, Pr. Thule, xxvi. 432. There was a faint suffused sense of joy in her heart.
Hence Suffusedly adv., in a suffused manner.
1895. Meyrick, Brit. Lepidopt., 461. Forewings whitish … dorsum suffusedly fuscous.
