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单词 defluxion
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defluxionn.

/dɪˈflʌkʃən/
Forms: Also 1600s–1800s defluction.
Etymology: < French défluxion (16th cent., Calvin, Paré), or < Latin dēfluxiōn-em, noun of action < Latin dēfluĕre to flow down, also, to fall off (as hair).
1.
a. A flowing or running down. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of flowing > [noun]
flowingc950
flowa1450
defluxionc1550
fluxion1555
fluxc1600
fluor1642
c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) Prol. 11 The defluxione of blude hed payntit ande cullourt all the feildis.
1616 J. Hayward Sanctuarie Troubled Soule (1620) i. ii. 38 The emptying of an Houre-glasse consisteth, not onely in the falling of the last graine of sand, but in the whole defluxion thereof from the beginning.
a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) iv. viii. 370 By the defluxion of Waters.
1832 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 32 644 It would be a needless defluxion of time to relate what took place.
b. A falling off (of hair). Obsolete. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separation or detachment > [noun] > falling off
defluxion1658
deflux1682
1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) 945 They cure..defluxion of hair, and the thinnesse thereof however contracted.
2. Pathology (a) A supposed flow of ‘humours’ to a particular part of the body, in certain diseases; (b) the flow or discharge accompanying a cold or inflammation; a running at the nose or eyes; catarrh. Now rare, Obsolete, or dialect.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > discharge or flux > [noun]
runningOE
rheuma1398
flux1447
fluxion?1541
defluxion1578
profluvium1603
redeliverage1612
secession1657
flix1667
eluvies1710
rhinorrhoea1846
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball v. xx. 576 [It] stoppeth all defluxions and falling downe of humours.
1586 Sir A. Paulet in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. i. III. No. 220. 7 Whome we found in her bed troubled..with a defluxion which was fallen into the syde of her neck.
1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §40 So doth Cold likewise cause Rheumes, and Defluxions from the Head.
1666 London Gaz. No. 65/2 Monsieur Colbert is fallen very ill of a defluction upon his throat.
1744 B. Franklin Acct. Pennsylvanian Fire-places 7 Women..get Colds..and Defluctions, which fall into their Jaws and Gums.
1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall II. xli. 517 A defluxion had fallen on his eyes.
1842 E. S. Abdy tr. R. von Falkenstein Water Cure (1843) 221 A scorbutic ulcer in the leg..attended with a great defluction on the part.
1860 J. L. Motley Hist. Netherlands (1868) I. vii. 455 Owing to a bad cold with a defluxion in the eyes, she was unable at once to read.
3.
a. concrete. Something that flows or runs down.
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the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of flowing > [noun] > action or process of flowing > down > amount which
defluxion1615
defluent1890
1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 277 The Nature of Seede no man that I know hath yet essentially defined..Plato [calleth it] The defluxion of the spinall marrow.
1633 T. Adams Comm. 2 Peter (iii. 18) 1578 We know..that he can..powre downe putrid defluxions from above.
b. figurative. An effluence, emanation. [tr. Greek ἀπορροή.] Obsolete.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > [noun] > of intangible things or particles from an object > that which
streamc1374
expiration1576
project1596
deflux1603
defluxion1603
effluence1603
resultation1603
resultance1611
resultancy1613
effluxion1625
effluency1646
emanation1646
efflux1647
issue1659
emission1664
offshoot1674
elapsea1677
1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 1307 The defluxion of Osiris, and the very apparent image of him.
1678 R. Cudworth tr. Plato in True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. i. 15 According to Empedocles, Vision and other Sensations were made by ἀποῤῥοαὶ σχημάτων, the Defluxions of Figures, or Effluvia of Atoms.
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