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effluxion|ɛˈflʌkʃən|
Also 7–9 effluction.
[f. prec. + -ion1.]
1. The action or process of flowing out; an outflow (of fluids or currents of any kind). Also fig.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. 80 We might perhaps beleeve that..by this effluxion bodies tended to the earth. 1651tr. Bacon's Life & Death 53 An abundant and continual Effluxion of blood causeth suddain death. 1670G. H. Hist. Cardinals ii. iii. 209 Would he but endeavour to suppress certain passionate effluctions from his youth. 1874Wiltsh. Times 3 Apr. 5/2 Death occurred from a sudden effluxion of the blood to the brain.
b. concr. An abortion. Cf. efflux n. 2.
1643R. O. Man's Mort. vi. 48 The Soule of that Effluction..must needs continue its immortallitie. 1696in Phillips. 1721–1800in Bailey.
2. The lapse or passing away (of time); the expiry or completion (of a certain period).
1621Molle Camerar. Liv. Libr. v. xii. 362 Till friendship may be consolidated by effluxion of time. 1633Earl of Manchester Al Mondo (1636) 9 The glasse then runnes most faintly when it [the hour] draws nearest to effluxion. 1807G. Chalmers Caledonia I. Pref. 6 The effluxion of a century. 1868Times 12 June 10 The partnership..having expired by effluxion of time.
3. concr. = effluvium, efflux 3.
1626Bacon Sylva §941 There are..some Light Effluxions from spirit to spirit. c1630Jackson Creed v. cxiii, Some..deny all effluxions from objects sensible. 1852Sir W. Hamilton Discuss. 69 Dr. Brown confounds the matterless species of the Peripatetics with the corporeal effluxions of Democritus and Epicurus. |