单词 | defluxion |
释义 | defluxionn. 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. 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. a. concrete. Something that flows or runs down. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.c1550 |
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