ppl. a. [f. EFFUSE v. + -ED.]

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  1.  Poured out, shed; also (of blood, etc., within the system) extravasated.

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1621.  G. Sandys, Ovid’s Met., III. (1626), 59.

        Thy Mother, and her sisters shall imbrue
Their furious hands in thy effused bloud.

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1845.  G. Day, trans. Simon’s Anim. Chem., I. 315. Blood-corpuscles being found in the effused fluid.

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  2.  Stretched at full length, with limbs relaxed. [cf. L. effusus.]

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1870.  Swinburne, Ess. & Stud. (1875), 323. The goddess languid and effused like a broad-blown flower.

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  Hence Effusedly adv. rare–1, in an overflowing manner, unrestrainedly.

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1594.  2nd Report Faustus, in Thoms’ Prose Rom., III. 331. Therewith laughing effusedly vanished away.

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