† fluxationn.
Obsolete.
1. Treatment by fluxing: see flux v. 1.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > treatments removing or dispersing matter > [noun] > purging
purgationa1387
purginga1400
minoration1590
purgament1650
laxating1652
fluxation1656
catharm1678
scouring1682
catharsis1803
syrmaism1842
washing-out1890
lavage1895
1656 S. Holland Don Zara iii. vi. 201 A drawl'd Prostitute, fitting her self for Fluxation.
2. Flowing or passing on.
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the world > time > [noun] > course or passage of time
process1357
concoursec1400
coursec1460
successionc1485
passing-by1523
by-passing1526
slacka1533
continuancea1552
race1565
prolapse1585
current1587
decurse1593
passage1596
drifting1610
flux1612
effluxion1621
transcursion1622
decursion1629
devolution1629
progression1646
efflux1647
preterition1647
processus1648
decurrence1659
progress1664
fluxation1710
elapsing1720
currency1726
lapse1758
elapse1793
time-lapse1864
wearing1876
1710 C. Leslie Vind. Short Method with Deists in Wks. (1721) I. 121 They [the Siamese] believe no God, but a continual fluxation and transmigration of Souls from eternity.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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