a. [f. L. suffūs- (see SUFFUSE) + -IVE.] Tending to suffuse or spread.
1889. J. M. Robertson, Ess. Crit. Meth., 152. Interest in the love stories and satisfaction in the minor character-drawing have passed into retrospection and suffusive musing.
1891. ‘C. E. Craddock’ (Miss Murfree), in Harper’s Mag., June, 65/1. Peak and range, valley and river, were all in the sunset tints—purple and saffron and a suffusive blood-red flush.
