fluentadj.n.

Brit.

/ˈfluːənt/, U.S.

/ˈfluənt/

Forms: Also 1500s–1600s fluant.

Etymology: < Latin fluent-em, present participle of fluĕre to flow.

A. adj.

a. That flows, flowing.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of flowing > [adjective]

flowinga1000

runningOE

laving13..

yerning1340

current?1523

coursing1600

fluent1607

coulant1632

aflow1863

1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 304 Whatsoeuer [water] is moueably fluent, is lesse subiect to poyson then that which standeth still.

1684 tr. T. Bonet Guide Pract. Physician viii. 272 Ligatures..seem to..impell the fluent bloud.

1719 in T. D'Urfey Wit & Mirth III. 97 Into a fluent Stream she leapt.

1854 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 15 ii. 415 Streams which are permanent or fluent all the year.

1893 Harper's Mag. May 815/2 The metal..came fluent from the crucible.

b. transferred and figurative; esp. of things compared to a stream or to the tide.

ΚΠ

1642 H. More Ψυχωδια Platonica sig. I Things that be fluent, As flitting time, by her be straight retent Unto one point.

a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Henry V ccxxviii, in Poems (1878) IV. 158 Yet Crouded Strength stifles the fluent Course Of many Glories.

1729 R. Savage Wanderer iii. 6 The sloping Sun To Ocean's Verge, his fluent Course has run.

1842 T. De Quincey Cicero in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. July 20/1 The fluent intercourse with this island.

1854 J. S. C. Abbott Napoleon (1855) II. xxvii. 502 Masses of cavalry, in fluent and refluent surges, trampled into the bloody mire the dying and the dead.

†c. Flowing readily as a consequence or inference. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > process of reasoning, ratiocination > process of inferring, inference > [adjective] > following as inference

fluent1619

logical1860

1619 W. Sclater Expos. 1 Thess. 244 In ancient Diuinitie the inference was fluent.

1619 W. Sclater Expos. 1 Thess. 567 See if from the fact of God, mentioned by the Apostle, it runnes not as fluent.

a. Having the property or capacity of flowing easily; ready to flow; fluid, liquid. Of a painter: Producing a fluid or liquid effect.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of flowing > [adjective] > apt to flow

fleetingc1200

fluxible1556

fluid1603

fluxile1605

fluxive?1606

fluent1611

runny1770

fluidic1883

1611 R. Johnson tr. G. Botero Relations Famous Kingdoms World (new ed.) 5 The people of the South haue their bloud thinne and fluent.

a1626 F. Bacon Physiol. Remains in Baconiana (1679) 122 When it is not malleable, but yet is not fluent, but stupified.

1698 W. Harris & J. Keill tr. N. Lémery Course Chym. (ed. 3) ii. xiii. 523 This fermentation subtilizes..the viscous parts..and turns them into a thin fluent liquid.

1822 Examiner 347/2 Backhuysen is often heavy in his shadows, but admirably fluent in the representation of water and air.

1844 E. B. Barrett Drama of Exile in Poems I. 101 The broad, fluent strata of pure air.

1877 H. Dixon Diana, Lady Lyle I. iii. iii. 190 A fairy pool of water lies, fluent and opalesque, under an amber slab.

b. figurative and of non-material things: Fluid, liable to change; not stable, fixed, or rigid.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > change > changeableness > [adjective]

slidinga900

wankleeOE

windyc1000

unsteadfastc1200

fleeting?c1225

loose?c1225

brotelc1315

unstablec1340

varyingc1340

variantc1374

motleyc1380

ungroundedc1380

muablea1393

passiblea1393

remuablea1393

changeablea1398

movablea1398

variablec1397

slidderya1400

ticklec1400

variantc1412

flitting1413

mutable?a1425

movingc1425

flaskisable1430

flickering1430

transmutablec1430

vertible1447

brittlea1450

ficklea1450

permutablec1450

unfirmc1450

uncertain1477

turnable1483

unsteadfast1483

vagrantc1522

inconstant1526

alterable?1531

stirringc1540

slippery1548

various1552

slid?1553

mutala1561

rolling1561

weathery1563

unconstant1568

interchangeable1574

fluctuant1575

stayless1575

transitive1575

voluble1575

changeling1577

queasy1579

desultory1581

huff-puff1582

unstaid1586

vagrant1586

changeful1590

floating1594

Protean1594

unstayed1594

swimming1596

anchorless1597

mobilec1600

ticklish1601

catching1603

labile1603

unrooted1604

quicksilvered1605

versatile1605

insubstantial1607

uncertain1609

brandling1611

rootless1611

squeasy1611

wind-changinga1616

insolid1618

ambulatory1625

versatilous1629

plastic1633

desultorious1637

unbottomed1641

fluid1642

fluent1648

yea-and-nay1648

versipellous1650

flexile1651

uncentred1652

variating1653

chequered1656

slideable1662

transchangeative1662

weathercock-like1663

flicketing1674

fluxa1677

lapsable1678

wanton1681

veering1684

upon the weathercock1702

contingent1703

unsettled?1726

fermentable1731

afloat1757

brickle1768

wavy1795

vagarious1798

unsettled1803

fitful1810

metamorphosical1811

undulating1815

tittupya1817

titubant1817

mutative1818

papier mâché1818

teetotum1819

vacillating1822

capricious1823

sensitive1828

quicksilvery1829

unengrafted1829

fluxionala1834

proteiform1833

liquid1835

tottlish1835

kaleidoscopic1846

versative1846

kaleidoscopical1858

tottery1861

choppy1865

variative1874

variational1879

wimbly-wambly1881

fluctuable1882

shifty1882

giveable1884

shifty1884

tippy1886

mutatory1890

upsettable1890

rocky1897

undulatory1897

streaky1898

tottly1905

tipply1906

up and down1907

inertialess1927

sometimey1946

rise-and-fall1950

switchable1961

1648 W. Montagu Miscellanea Spiritualia vi. §2. 57 While the matter of worldly goods remaineth fluent and transitory.

1691 J. Ray Wisdom of God 33 Motion being a fluent thing.

1814 W. Wordsworth Excursion iv. 173 Did his hand bestow On fluent Operations a fixed Shape.

1851 A. Helps Compan. Solitude x. 188 The general body of opinion is very fluent.

1872 M. Collins Two Plunges for Pearl I. 196 English society is curiously fluent.

3. transferred.

a. Of hair: Growing in abundant quantity and falling in graceful curves; flowing.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > hair > types of hair > [adjective] > abundant

well-hairedc1465

fluent1607

affluent1816

1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 566 Any one whose haires are too fluent and abundant.

1867 G. Meredith Vittoria I. i. 4 A fluent black moustache ran with the curve of the upper lip.

1872 Ld. Tennyson Gareth & Lynette 30 Broad brows and fair, a fluent hair and fine.

b. Moving easily or gracefully; not stiff or rigid.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in specific manner > [adjective] > moving easily or freely

easy1483

fast-flowing1770

free1862

fluent1869

1869 R. D. Blackmore Lorna Doone I. x. 119 I never had dreamed of such delicate motion, fluent, and graceful.

†4.

a. Flowing freely or abundantly. Also, abounding in. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of flowing > [adjective] > copiously or suddenly

wellingc1400

railinga1470

flushing?1548

washing1560

streaming1579

gushing1582

fluenta1592

teeming1627

the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > abundance > [adjective] > flowing abundantly

pouring1577

streaming1579

fluenta1592

affluent1704

gushingc1709

flooding1850

the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > abundance > [adjective] > abounding in or having abundance

fulleOE

ranka1250

broada1300

rifec1325

copiousa1387

wealthful ofa1400

plaina1450

heavy-ladenc1450

fluenta1592

onust1604

heavy1622

onusted1657

opulent1685

aflooda1729

rowtha1774

acrawl1830

lousy1843

awash1912

a1592 R. Greene Hist. Orlando Furioso (1594) sig. Diii^v Those fluent springs of your lamenting teares.

1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. vii. xii. 321/1 Destitute of vertue and fluent in vice.

1639 G. Daniel Ecclus. xliii. 53 A Cloud, swolne w^th a fluent raine.

c1682 J. Collins Salt & Fishery 2 At Namptwich they have one Pit within the Town, and two without, sufficient to serve the Fourth part of the Nation, the Bryne being so fluent.

b. Giving freely, generous. Obsolete exc. dialect.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > giving > liberal giving > [adjective]

custyeOE

room-handeda1200

largea1225

free?c1225

plenteousc1350

bounteousc1374

liberalc1384

free-hearteda1398

ungnedea1400

royalc1405

opena1425

plentifula1475

profuse?a1475

ungrighta1475

lavishc1475

almifluent1477

prodigous1477

frank1484

bountiful1508

largifluent?a1525

munificent1565

magnificent1577

largeous1583

munifical1583

magnifical1586

free-handed1592

frolic1593

open-handed1593

magnific?1594

prodigal1595

goodwillya1598

communicativea1602

real1602

prodig1605

unniggard1605

generous1615

open-hearteda1617

large-handeda1628

unniggardly1628

fluent1633

profusive1638

numerous1655

largifical1656

insordid1660

unsparing1667

dispensive1677

expensive1678

wasteful1701

flush1703

unboundeda1704

genteel1741

munific1745

magnifique1751

ungrudginga1774

unstinting1845

brickish1860

flaithulach1876

princely1889

outgiving1896

sharing1922

two-handed1929

1633 Breton's Poste with Packet Madde Lett. (rev. ed.) i. 1 A Sonne..bound..through the fluent bounty of a fathers loue.

1639 J. Saltmarsh Pract. Policie 237 If you bee fluent in one kinde, bee sparing in another.

1887 T. Darlington Folk-speech S. Cheshire Fluent, liberal..as ‘fluent i' givin’.

a. Of speech, style, etc.: Flowing easily and readily from the tongue or pen.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > elegance > [adjective] > fluent or unforced

gentc1390

renablec1410

flowing1553

round1565

unracked1572

current1577

ready1583

voluble1598

facile1607

unforceda1616

fluent1625

sliding1627

unstudied1657

flippanta1677

easy1711

fast-flowing1770

fluida1794

superfluent1917

1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 250 Such as is a fluent and Luxuriant Speech.

1660 A. Wood Life & Times (1891) I. 360 Their fluent praying and preaching.

1670–1 J. Narborough Jrnl. in Acct. Several Late Voy. (1711) i. 70 Their Language is much in the Throat, and not very fluent, but uttered with good deliberation.

1729 A. Pope Dunciad (new ed.) iii. 197 How fluent nonsense trickles from his tongue!

1828 I. D'Israeli Comm. Life Charles I I. ii. 21 The pain which conversation occasions him whose speech is not fluent.

1866 ‘G. Eliot’ Felix Holt I. v. 126 A soft voice with a clear fluent utterance.

b. Of a speaker, etc.: Ready in the use of words, able to express oneself readily and easily in speech or writing.

ΚΠ

1589 W. Warner Albions Eng. (new ed.) v. xxvii. 119 Rhetoricall I am not with a fluant tongue to ster.

1611 T. Heywood Golden Age i. sig. B Fluent Mercury Speakes from my tongue.

1737 A. Pope Epist. of Horace ii. i. 16 Fluent Shakespear scarce effac'd a line.

1785 W. Cowper Task iv. 19 His fluent quill.

1832 H. Martineau Ireland i. 6 Fluent story-tellers.

1882 Farrar in Contemp. Rev. 807 As a speaker..Dean Stanley was by no means fluent.

6. Mathematics. In the doctrine of fluxions: Continuously increasing or decreasing by an infinitesimal quantity.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > calculus > [adjective] > varying continuously

flowing1704

fluent1734

fluential1784

1734 G. Berkeley Analyst §45 in Wks. (1871) III. 287 Each foregoing is a fluent quantity having the following one for its fluxion.

1807 C. Hutton Course Math. (ed. 5) II. 276 Suppose the right line mn to move..continually parallel to itself..so as to generate the fluent or flowing rectangle abqp.

in extended use.1844 W. E. Gladstone Past Years (1874) V. ii. 83 The Church..might be eliminated like a constant quantity from among those fluent materials with which history is conversant.

B. n.

†1. A stream, a current of water. Obsolete.[In the first two quots. strictly a distinct word < Latin fluent-um.]

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > [noun] > river

floodc825

streamc875

eaeOE

water streamOE

flumec1175

fleamc1300

riverc1300

currentc1380

reea1500

ford1563

fluent1598

draught1601

nymph1605

amnic1623

flux1637

nullah1656

R1692

currency1758

silent highway1841

1598 B. Yong tr. A. Pérez 2nd Pt. Diana in tr. J. de Montemayor Diana 308 The fertill fields, which the great riuer Duerus with his cristalline fluents doth water.

?1624 G. Chapman tr. Hymn to Venus in tr. Crowne Homers Wks. 102 At the fluents of the Ocean Nere Earths extreame bounds.

1705 J. Philips Blenheim 239 Their hands, that sed'lous strive To cut the outrageous fluent.

2. Mathematics. The variable quantity in fluxions which is continually increasing or decreasing.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > calculus > [noun] > integral calculus > integration or integrability > integral

fluent1706

integral1728

gamma function1834

surface integral1867

Riemann integral1894

Cauchy's integral1898

Lebesgue integral1905

Stieltjes integral1914

convolution1934

1706 W. Jones Synopsis Palmariorum Matheseos 226 Hence the Celerity of the Motion is..called Fluxion, and the Quantity generated Fluent.

1819 G. Peacock View Fluxional & Differential Calculus 23 Where the fluent or integral is expressed by an algebraic function.

1878 W. K. Clifford Elem. Dynamic ii. 62.

3. Something fluent or liable to change.Apparently an isolated use.

ΚΠ

a1834 S. T. Coleridge Lit. Remains (1836) II. 309 The guardian, as a fluent, is less than the permanent which he is to guard. He is the temporary and mutable mean.

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单词	fluent
释义	fluentadj.n. Brit. /ˈfluːənt/, U.S. /ˈfluənt/ Forms: Also 1500s–1600s fluant. Etymology: < Latin fluent-em, present participle of fluĕre to flow. A. adj. 1. a. That flows, flowing. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of flowing > [adjective] flowinga1000 runningOE laving13.. yerning1340 current?1523 coursing1600 fluent1607 coulant1632 aflow1863 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 304 Whatsoeuer [water] is moueably fluent, is lesse subiect to poyson then that which standeth still. 1684 tr. T. Bonet Guide Pract. Physician viii. 272 Ligatures..seem to..impell the fluent bloud. 1719 in T. D'Urfey Wit & Mirth III. 97 Into a fluent Stream she leapt. 1854 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 15 ii. 415 Streams which are permanent or fluent all the year. 1893 Harper's Mag. May 815/2 The metal..came fluent from the crucible. b. transferred and figurative; esp. of things compared to a stream or to the tide. ΚΠ 1642 H. More Ψυχωδια Platonica sig. I Things that be fluent, As flitting time, by her be straight retent Unto one point. a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Henry V ccxxviii, in Poems (1878) IV. 158 Yet Crouded Strength stifles the fluent Course Of many Glories. 1729 R. Savage Wanderer iii. 6 The sloping Sun To Ocean's Verge, his fluent Course has run. 1842 T. De Quincey Cicero in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. July 20/1 The fluent intercourse with this island. 1854 J. S. C. Abbott Napoleon (1855) II. xxvii. 502 Masses of cavalry, in fluent and refluent surges, trampled into the bloody mire the dying and the dead. †c. Flowing readily as a consequence or inference. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > process of reasoning, ratiocination > process of inferring, inference > [adjective] > following as inference fluent1619 logical1860 1619 W. Sclater Expos. 1 Thess. 244 In ancient Diuinitie the inference was fluent. 1619 W. Sclater Expos. 1 Thess. 567 See if from the fact of God, mentioned by the Apostle, it runnes not as fluent. 2. a. Having the property or capacity of flowing easily; ready to flow; fluid, liquid. Of a painter: Producing a fluid or liquid effect. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of flowing > [adjective] > apt to flow fleetingc1200 fluxible1556 fluid1603 fluxile1605 fluxive?1606 fluent1611 runny1770 fluidic1883 1611 R. Johnson tr. G. Botero Relations Famous Kingdoms World (new ed.) 5 The people of the South haue their bloud thinne and fluent. a1626 F. Bacon Physiol. Remains in Baconiana (1679) 122 When it is not malleable, but yet is not fluent, but stupified. 1698 W. Harris & J. Keill tr. N. Lémery Course Chym. (ed. 3) ii. xiii. 523 This fermentation subtilizes..the viscous parts..and turns them into a thin fluent liquid. 1822 Examiner 347/2 Backhuysen is often heavy in his shadows, but admirably fluent in the representation of water and air. 1844 E. B. Barrett Drama of Exile in Poems I. 101 The broad, fluent strata of pure air. 1877 H. Dixon Diana, Lady Lyle I. iii. iii. 190 A fairy pool of water lies, fluent and opalesque, under an amber slab. b. figurative and of non-material things: Fluid, liable to change; not stable, fixed, or rigid. ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > changeableness > [adjective] slidinga900 wankleeOE windyc1000 unsteadfastc1200 fleeting?c1225 loose?c1225 brotelc1315 unstablec1340 varyingc1340 variantc1374 motleyc1380 ungroundedc1380 muablea1393 passiblea1393 remuablea1393 changeablea1398 movablea1398 variablec1397 slidderya1400 ticklec1400 variantc1412 flitting1413 mutable?a1425 movingc1425 flaskisable1430 flickering1430 transmutablec1430 vertible1447 brittlea1450 ficklea1450 permutablec1450 unfirmc1450 uncertain1477 turnable1483 unsteadfast1483 vagrantc1522 inconstant1526 alterable?1531 stirringc1540 slippery1548 various1552 slid?1553 mutala1561 rolling1561 weathery1563 unconstant1568 interchangeable1574 fluctuant1575 stayless1575 transitive1575 voluble1575 changeling1577 queasy1579 desultory1581 huff-puff1582 unstaid1586 vagrant1586 changeful1590 floating1594 Protean1594 unstayed1594 swimming1596 anchorless1597 mobilec1600 ticklish1601 catching1603 labile1603 unrooted1604 quicksilvered1605 versatile1605 insubstantial1607 uncertain1609 brandling1611 rootless1611 squeasy1611 wind-changinga1616 insolid1618 ambulatory1625 versatilous1629 plastic1633 desultorious1637 unbottomed1641 fluid1642 fluent1648 yea-and-nay1648 versipellous1650 flexile1651 uncentred1652 variating1653 chequered1656 slideable1662 transchangeative1662 weathercock-like1663 flicketing1674 fluxa1677 lapsable1678 wanton1681 veering1684 upon the weathercock1702 contingent1703 unsettled?1726 fermentable1731 afloat1757 brickle1768 wavy1795 vagarious1798 unsettled1803 fitful1810 metamorphosical1811 undulating1815 tittupya1817 titubant1817 mutative1818 papier mâché1818 teetotum1819 vacillating1822 capricious1823 sensitive1828 quicksilvery1829 unengrafted1829 fluxionala1834 proteiform1833 liquid1835 tottlish1835 kaleidoscopic1846 versative1846 kaleidoscopical1858 tottery1861 choppy1865 variative1874 variational1879 wimbly-wambly1881 fluctuable1882 shifty1882 giveable1884 shifty1884 tippy1886 mutatory1890 upsettable1890 rocky1897 undulatory1897 streaky1898 tottly1905 tipply1906 up and down1907 inertialess1927 sometimey1946 rise-and-fall1950 switchable1961 1648 W. Montagu Miscellanea Spiritualia vi. §2. 57 While the matter of worldly goods remaineth fluent and transitory. 1691 J. Ray Wisdom of God 33 Motion being a fluent thing. 1814 W. Wordsworth Excursion iv. 173 Did his hand bestow On fluent Operations a fixed Shape. 1851 A. Helps Compan. Solitude x. 188 The general body of opinion is very fluent. 1872 M. Collins Two Plunges for Pearl I. 196 English society is curiously fluent. 3. transferred. a. Of hair: Growing in abundant quantity and falling in graceful curves; flowing. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > hair > types of hair > [adjective] > abundant well-hairedc1465 fluent1607 affluent1816 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 566 Any one whose haires are too fluent and abundant. 1867 G. Meredith Vittoria I. i. 4 A fluent black moustache ran with the curve of the upper lip. 1872 Ld. Tennyson Gareth & Lynette 30 Broad brows and fair, a fluent hair and fine. b. Moving easily or gracefully; not stiff or rigid. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > [adjective] > moving easily or freely easy1483 fast-flowing1770 free1862 fluent1869 1869 R. D. Blackmore Lorna Doone I. x. 119 I never had dreamed of such delicate motion, fluent, and graceful. †4. a. Flowing freely or abundantly. Also, abounding in. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of flowing > [adjective] > copiously or suddenly wellingc1400 railinga1470 flushing?1548 washing1560 streaming1579 gushing1582 fluenta1592 teeming1627 the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > abundance > [adjective] > flowing abundantly pouring1577 streaming1579 fluenta1592 affluent1704 gushingc1709 flooding1850 the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > abundance > [adjective] > abounding in or having abundance fulleOE ranka1250 broada1300 rifec1325 copiousa1387 wealthful ofa1400 plaina1450 heavy-ladenc1450 fluenta1592 onust1604 heavy1622 onusted1657 opulent1685 aflooda1729 rowtha1774 acrawl1830 lousy1843 awash1912 a1592 R. Greene Hist. Orlando Furioso (1594) sig. Diii^v Those fluent springs of your lamenting teares. 1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. vii. xii. 321/1 Destitute of vertue and fluent in vice. 1639 G. Daniel Ecclus. xliii. 53 A Cloud, swolne w^th a fluent raine. c1682 J. Collins Salt & Fishery 2 At Namptwich they have one Pit within the Town, and two without, sufficient to serve the Fourth part of the Nation, the Bryne being so fluent. b. Giving freely, generous. Obsolete exc. dialect. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > giving > liberal giving > [adjective] custyeOE room-handeda1200 largea1225 free?c1225 plenteousc1350 bounteousc1374 liberalc1384 free-hearteda1398 ungnedea1400 royalc1405 opena1425 plentifula1475 profuse?a1475 ungrighta1475 lavishc1475 almifluent1477 prodigous1477 frank1484 bountiful1508 largifluent?a1525 munificent1565 magnificent1577 largeous1583 munifical1583 magnifical1586 free-handed1592 frolic1593 open-handed1593 magnific?1594 prodigal1595 goodwillya1598 communicativea1602 real1602 prodig1605 unniggard1605 generous1615 open-hearteda1617 large-handeda1628 unniggardly1628 fluent1633 profusive1638 numerous1655 largifical1656 insordid1660 unsparing1667 dispensive1677 expensive1678 wasteful1701 flush1703 unboundeda1704 genteel1741 munific1745 magnifique1751 ungrudginga1774 unstinting1845 brickish1860 flaithulach1876 princely1889 outgiving1896 sharing1922 two-handed1929 1633 Breton's Poste with Packet Madde Lett. (rev. ed.) i. 1 A Sonne..bound..through the fluent bounty of a fathers loue. 1639 J. Saltmarsh Pract. Policie 237 If you bee fluent in one kinde, bee sparing in another. 1887 T. Darlington Folk-speech S. Cheshire Fluent, liberal..as ‘fluent i' givin’. 5. a. Of speech, style, etc.: Flowing easily and readily from the tongue or pen. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > elegance > [adjective] > fluent or unforced gentc1390 renablec1410 flowing1553 round1565 unracked1572 current1577 ready1583 voluble1598 facile1607 unforceda1616 fluent1625 sliding1627 unstudied1657 flippanta1677 easy1711 fast-flowing1770 fluida1794 superfluent1917 1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 250 Such as is a fluent and Luxuriant Speech. 1660 A. Wood Life & Times (1891) I. 360 Their fluent praying and preaching. 1670–1 J. Narborough Jrnl. in Acct. Several Late Voy. (1711) i. 70 Their Language is much in the Throat, and not very fluent, but uttered with good deliberation. 1729 A. Pope Dunciad (new ed.) iii. 197 How fluent nonsense trickles from his tongue! 1828 I. D'Israeli Comm. Life Charles I I. ii. 21 The pain which conversation occasions him whose speech is not fluent. 1866 ‘G. Eliot’ Felix Holt I. v. 126 A soft voice with a clear fluent utterance. b. Of a speaker, etc.: Ready in the use of words, able to express oneself readily and easily in speech or writing. ΚΠ 1589 W. Warner Albions Eng. (new ed.) v. xxvii. 119 Rhetoricall I am not with a fluant tongue to ster. 1611 T. Heywood Golden Age i. sig. B Fluent Mercury Speakes from my tongue. 1737 A. Pope Epist. of Horace ii. i. 16 Fluent Shakespear scarce effac'd a line. 1785 W. Cowper Task iv. 19 His fluent quill. 1832 H. Martineau Ireland i. 6 Fluent story-tellers. 1882 Farrar in Contemp. Rev. 807 As a speaker..Dean Stanley was by no means fluent. 6. Mathematics. In the doctrine of fluxions: Continuously increasing or decreasing by an infinitesimal quantity. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > calculus > [adjective] > varying continuously flowing1704 fluent1734 fluential1784 1734 G. Berkeley Analyst §45 in Wks. (1871) III. 287 Each foregoing is a fluent quantity having the following one for its fluxion. 1807 C. Hutton Course Math. (ed. 5) II. 276 Suppose the right line mn to move..continually parallel to itself..so as to generate the fluent or flowing rectangle abqp. in extended use.1844 W. E. Gladstone Past Years (1874) V. ii. 83 The Church..might be eliminated like a constant quantity from among those fluent materials with which history is conversant. B. n. †1. A stream, a current of water. Obsolete.[In the first two quots. strictly a distinct word < Latin fluent-um.] ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > [noun] > river floodc825 streamc875 eaeOE water streamOE flumec1175 fleamc1300 riverc1300 currentc1380 reea1500 ford1563 fluent1598 draught1601 nymph1605 amnic1623 flux1637 nullah1656 R1692 currency1758 silent highway1841 1598 B. Yong tr. A. Pérez 2nd Pt. Diana in tr. J. de Montemayor Diana 308 The fertill fields, which the great riuer Duerus with his cristalline fluents doth water. ?1624 G. Chapman tr. Hymn to Venus in tr. Crowne Homers Wks. 102 At the fluents of the Ocean Nere Earths extreame bounds. 1705 J. Philips Blenheim 239 Their hands, that sed'lous strive To cut the outrageous fluent. 2. Mathematics. The variable quantity in fluxions which is continually increasing or decreasing. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > calculus > [noun] > integral calculus > integration or integrability > integral fluent1706 integral1728 gamma function1834 surface integral1867 Riemann integral1894 Cauchy's integral1898 Lebesgue integral1905 Stieltjes integral1914 convolution1934 1706 W. Jones Synopsis Palmariorum Matheseos 226 Hence the Celerity of the Motion is..called Fluxion, and the Quantity generated Fluent. 1819 G. Peacock View Fluxional & Differential Calculus 23 Where the fluent or integral is expressed by an algebraic function. 1878 W. K. Clifford Elem. Dynamic ii. 62. 3. Something fluent or liable to change.Apparently an isolated use. ΚΠ a1834 S. T. Coleridge Lit. Remains (1836) II. 309 The guardian, as a fluent, is less than the permanent which he is to guard. He is the temporary and mutable mean. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1589
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