widely-diffused

The Vocabulary of a widely-diffused and highly-cultivated living language is not a fixed quantity circumscribed by definite limits.

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That the Moon derives its name from being regarded as the _Measurer_ of time; and Man, from the notion of _thinking_; that an (_anh_) is a widely-diffused root, signifying

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

Huxley, in his Hunterian Lectures, in 1866, to promulgate the notion that a vast and widely-diffused marsupial fauna may have existed anteriorly to the development of the ordinary placental, non-pouched beasts, and that the carnivorous, insectivorous, and herbivorous placentals may have respectively descended from the carnivorous, insectivorous, and herbivorous marsupials.

On the Genesis of Species St. George Mivart

Lang adhered to his "arrivals" as the prominent object of consideration, and the mightiest changes of revolutions, in actions or opinions, found but a stinted record in his widely-diffused journal.

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The society is in fact merely one of those widely-diffused primitive institutions, of which a chief object is the initiation of young men.

The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion 1922

The society is in fact merely one of those widely-diffused primitive institutions, of which a chief object is the initiation of young men.

Chapter 67. The External Soul in Folk-Custom. § 4. The Ritual of Death and Resurrection 1922

Among its good effects were: A widely-diffused respect for learning; the possibility of doing without a hereditary aristocracy; the selection of administrators who must at least have been capable of industry; and the preservation of Chinese civilization in spite of barbarian conquest.

The Problem of China Bertrand Russell 1921

We have seen that it is the common, the widely-diffused and widely-ranging species, belonging to the larger genera within each class, which vary most; and these tend to transmit to their modified offspring that superiority which now makes them dominant in their own countries.

IV. Natural Selection; or the Survival of the Fittest. Summary of Chapter 1909

Let (A) be a common, widely-diffused, and varying species, belonging to a genus large in its own country.

IV. Natural Selection; or the Survival of the Fittest. The Probable Effects of the Action of Natural Selection through Divergence of Character and Extinction, on the Descendants of a Common Ancestor 1909

As all the modified descendants from a common and widely-diffused species, belonging to a large genus, will tend to partake of the same advantages which made their parent successful in life, they will generally go on multiplying in number as well as diverging in character: this is represented in the diagram by the several divergent branches proceeding from (A).

IV. Natural Selection; or the Survival of the Fittest. The Probable Effects of the Action of Natural Selection through Divergence of Character and Extinction, on the Descendants of a Common Ancestor 1909