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▪ I. † deflux, n. Obs.|ˈdiːflʌks|
[ad. L. dēflux-us a flowing down, a running off, f. ppl. stem of dēfluĕre: see above.]
1. A flowing or running down; defluxion.
1599H. Buttes Dyet's Dry Din. Aa iij b, Head o'reflowne with brinie deluge of defluxes hot. 1626Bacon Sylva (1677) §677 The Deflux of Humors. 1636Featly Clavis Myst. xxviii. 365 A great defluxe of penitent teares. 1710T. Fuller Pharm. Extemp. 172 A Frontal with Mastic..hinders the deflux of Humours.
2. transf. A falling off or shedding. rare.
1682Norris Hierocles 130 Having suffered a deflux of her wings.
3. concr. An effluence, emanation; = defluxion 3 b. rare.
1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 1336 But say there should happly be some deflux or effluence that passeth from one world to another. 1682Creech Lucretius (1683) Notes 3 The constant deflux of divine Images which strike the Mind.
▪ II. † deˈflux, v. Obs. rare.
[f. L. dēflux-, ppl. stem of dēfluĕre.]
intr. a. To flow down. b. To fall off in influence. Hence deˈfluxed ppl. a.
1647Needham Levellers Levelled 9 If wee observe the middle time of this Eclipse or full Moone..shee defluxeth from the opposition of the Sunne, to the Conjunction of Saturne. 1657Tomlinson Renou's Disp. 520 It cohibits all fluxions, and cocts the defluxed humours. |