This tendency is peculiarly marked, of course, in artists possessing the "diffluent" type of imagination, and.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Study of Poetry] Reference

Schizomycetes, the various elements being glued together, as it were, by their enormously swollen and diffluent cell-walls becoming contiguous.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference

The spinal cord was practically gone between the levels of the fourth and seventh dorsal vertebræ, and diffluent from myelitis up to the third cervical.    From Wordnik.com.  [Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre] Reference

The bone had not apparently been sufficiently depressed to exert continuous pressure, but the cord was diffluent and actually destroyed over an area corresponding with the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh dorsal segments.    From Wordnik.com.  [Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre] Reference

It was a condition chiefly confined to the caudal end, the sarcode having became diffluent, hyaline, and intensely rapid in the protrusion and retraction of its substance, while the nuclear body becomes enormously enlarged.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 470, January 3, 1885] Reference

At the end of some five weeks, the common duration of life, the structure of the cord was represented by a semi-diffluent yellowish material, the consistence of which was so deficient in firmness as to allow the partial collapse of the membranes covering the affected portion, so as to exhibit a definite narrowing when the whole was held up (see fig. 79).    From Wordnik.com.  [Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre] Reference

= Gills = dissolving into a gelatinous or powdery condition, not diffluent as in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.] Reference

Thus the diffluent imagination is, trait for trait, the opposite of the plastic imagination.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essai sur l'imagination créatrice. English] Reference

The new-born infant is a spinal being, with an unformed diffluent brain, composed largely of water.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essai sur l'imagination créatrice. English] Reference

The diffluent imagination is another general form, but one that is completely opposed to the foregoing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essai sur l'imagination créatrice. English] Reference

To sum up -- In this form of the diffluent imagination the emotional factor exercises supreme authority.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essai sur l'imagination créatrice. English] Reference

We shall see that its opposite, diffluent imagination, is that which depends least upon that factor, or is most free from it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essai sur l'imagination créatrice. English] Reference

Here we come away from the vague forms; the diffluent imagination becomes substantial and asserts itself through its permanence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essai sur l'imagination créatrice. English] Reference

Here, for example, are two kinds seemingly belonging to the diffluent imagination which, however, do not permit it to completely include them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essai sur l'imagination créatrice. English] Reference

The music of "Sleep On!" is very sweet, and I have never seen heroic verse in which the rhyme was less obtrusive or the rhythm more diffluent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Authors and Friends] Reference

But the sense of the infinite fusibility and change in the objective world is deeper than that revealed in any one type of diffluent imagination.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Study of Poetry] Reference

The music of “Sleep On!” is very sweet, and I have never seen heroic verse in which the rhyme was less obtrusive or the rhythm more diffluent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Authors and Friends]

Related to diffluent imagination, especially in the latter's affective form, it has its own special characters, which we shall try to separate out.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essai sur l'imagination créatrice. English] Reference

= Gills = usually free, pileus deeply plicate so that the gills are split where they are attached to the pileus, pileus membranaceous, very tender but not diffluent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.] Reference

Analysis, indeed, discovers a certain class of ill-understood images, which I call emotional abstractions, and which are the proper material for the diffluent imagination.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essai sur l'imagination créatrice. English] Reference

We shall study at first two general forms of the creative imagination -- the plastic and the diffluent -- and later, special forms, determined by their content and subject.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essai sur l'imagination créatrice. English] Reference

It is not here a question of criticism, of praise, or even of appreciation, but merely of a consideration of it as a psychological fact likely to instruct us in regard to the nature of the diffluent imagination.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essai sur l'imagination créatrice. English] Reference

Varieties of the diffluent imagination: first, numerical imagination; its nature; two principal forms, cosmogonic and scientific conceptions; second, musical imagination, the type of the affective imagination.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essai sur l'imagination créatrice. English] Reference

Let us rapidly pass over some very frequent, very well-known manifestations of the diffluent imagination -- those obliterated forms in which it does not reach complete development and cannot give the full measure of its power.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essai sur l'imagination créatrice. English] Reference

By the nature of its favorite images, by its preference for vague associations and uncertain relations, it presents all the characteristics of diffluent imagination; but the latter covers a much broader field: it is the genus of which the other is a species.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essai sur l'imagination créatrice. English] Reference

A hundred and fifty miles east to west, say half as much north to south -- about a thousand square miles in whole -- of metalliferous, coniferous, and Ghostiferous mountain, fluent, and diffluent for us, both in mediæval and recent times, with the most Essential oil of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Fathers Have Told Us Part I. The Bible of Amiens] Reference

At the best, it can be regarded only as a hasty deduction from the first superficial notices of the objects that surround us, sufficient, perhaps, for the purpose of ordinary discrimination, but far too indeterminate and diffluent to be taken unexamined by the philosophic inquirer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hints towards the formation of a more comprehensive theory of life.] Reference

We have already pointed out very different kinds of representations -- concrete images, material pertaining to plastic and mechanical imagination; the emotional abstractions of the diffluent imagination; affective images, the type of which is found in musicians; symbolic images, familiar in mystics.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essai sur l'imagination créatrice. English] Reference

There is of course a typical difference between the "plastic" imagination, dealing with clear images, objective relations, and seen at its best in the arts of form like sculpture and architecture, and that "diffluent" imagination which prefers vaguely outlined images, which is markedly subjective and emotional, and of which modern music like Debussy's is a good example.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Study of Poetry] Reference

What's diffluent I do consolidate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Several Poems Compiled with Great Variety of Wit and Learning, Full of Delight] Reference