diffused light.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

The public discontent was soon diffused from the centre to the frontiers of the empire.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire] Reference

But just caught the newly-refurbished Midland Hotel bathed in diffused late afternoon light.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chez Moi] Reference

Their empire, by the progress of colonies and conquest, had been diffused from the Adriatic to the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire] Reference

The wavelength, or the number of oscillations per second, in the light thus diffused is here the same as in the original ray of light.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nobel Prize in Physics 1930 - Presentation Speech] Reference

And it is nothing wonderful; if the devils are proved to cause those to be much worse hated who live not according to a part only of the word diffused.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus] Reference

He played with the melancholy which the phrase diffused, he felt it stealing over him, but like a caress which only deepened and sweetened his sense of his own happiness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Swann's Way] Reference

How there are 2 different kinds of light; one being called diffused, the other restricted.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Complete] Reference

Solar radiation sunlight is scattered across the atmosphere by a process called diffused sky radiation.    From Wordnik.com.  ["One science question" - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

Solar radiation that reaches the Earth's surface after it was altered by the process of scattering is called diffused solar radiation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Atmospheric effects on incoming solar radiation] Reference

Perhaps I should have said 'diffused' leadership, sanddef.    From Wordnik.com.  [Are we talking about the right things?] Reference

President Obama "diffused" that situation by not dealing with it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dexter Rogers: Should President Obama Use His Platform to Diffuse Racism?] Reference

She was, as Mr. Giarritano put it, "diffused" spewing, splattering, splaying all over, without a center to hold.    From Wordnik.com.  [Buried Alive, The Biography of Janis Joplin]

If you have a process that leads to a kind of diffused speech, that's a warning of a less focused administration.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 20, 2005] Reference

"I think it kind of diffused Virginia's momentum.".    From Wordnik.com.  [ajc.com - News] Reference

It is by that doctrine that a spirit is communicated and diffused which is superior and adverse to the spirit of the world.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)] Reference

It's diffused, which is why they say it's gone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Most Gulf Oil Is Out Of Site But Not Out Of Mind] Reference

At any rate it … kind of diffused the tension for me.).    From Wordnik.com.  [A-Ha! Extroversion for Introverts « Looking for Roots] Reference

"diffused" the incident by paying off the women, in exchange for their silence, the newspaper said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Medindia Health News] Reference

The diffused afternoon sunlight lays gold-red upon it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hotel Chelsea - Nanette 6] Reference

Two or three lamps suspended from the roof diffused an.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hero of Garside School] Reference

One, we are in a credit bubble that is being diffused as we speak.    From Wordnik.com.  [Joe Battipaglia Goes For Gold, Bonds And Big Stocks] Reference

The light is diffused, fractal through the hair floating around my face.    From Wordnik.com.  [Infinity Pool] Reference

The facilities for popular education have been vastly enlarged and more generally diffused.    From Wordnik.com.  [US Presidential Inaugural Addresses] Reference

Ideas of a similar nature seem to have been at this time, generally diffused over the East.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sketches of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World] Reference

Aside from "invisible mists" and "diffused oil and methane," since when is asphalt nontoxic?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rachel Ben-Avi: Now You See It, Now You Don't] Reference

It was all people coming from outside, and that quickly diffused, because they were recognized as outsiders.    From Wordnik.com.  [What Goes On Inside Your Neighborhood Mosque] Reference

Onstage, the play's narrative was beamed directly at the audience; here it's diffused through its various locales.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Worm In The Big Apple] Reference

I saw all because I see well and because the sky did glow with some diffused, but completely painless illumination.    From Wordnik.com.  [Magic X] Reference

In England theories of art are more carefully discussed and more widely diffused than they are in any other country.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878] Reference

But it was a telling example of how this analytical process has unfortunately diffused into all aspects of our lives.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yolanda Reid Chassiakos: A Rose By Any Other Name] Reference

The sun shone brightly; a gentle breeze diffused its cooling power, and the surface of the water was calm and placid.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Pirate of Parts] Reference

The red lights started to pulse at the rail crossing and a cone of diffused white light loomedthrough the woolly darkness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Left at the Tracks] Reference

THE night was moonless, but there was that soft diffused light in the air invariable in June, except on the cloudiest of evenings.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Motor Pirate] Reference

But the tea partiers 'well-documented obsession with President Obama has hardly been diffused by their knack for finding new enemies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Black Helicopters Over Nashville] Reference

These are carbuncles one or two inches in diameter that are hot and tender at first, but later become gangrenous, diffused swellings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference

It was about half past four in the morning, and the light of day was beginning to be diffused around, when they reached their destination.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lost in the Fog] Reference

Its immense, fiery volume, which filled us with such dread, was so diffused that it was nearly all consumed by impact with our atmosphere.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daybreak; a Romance of an Old World] Reference