单词 | fluxible |
释义 | fluxibleadj. Obsolete or archaic. 1. a. Apt to flow; fluid. 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 1556 R. Record Castle of Knowl. 141 The water beynge a lyquide and fluxible bodye, can not be stayed by his owne partes. 1605 T. Tymme tr. J. Du Chesne Pract. Chymicall & Hermeticall Physicke ii. i. 105 Salt, by the vehemencie of the heat of fire, is to be dissolued, moulten, and made fluxible. 1726 G. Leoni tr. L. B. Alberti Architecture I. 45/2 Stones..are created by Nature..of a liquid and fluxible substance. b. Of a watery consistence; hence, pliable, supple. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > constitution of matter > softness > pliableness > [adjective] tougha700 lithyc1000 softc1330 weak?a1366 plianta1382 persha1398 plyinga1398 lithec1400 supplec1400 plicable?a1425 curvable?1440 lethec1440 scretec1440 pliablec1475 bowable1483 bowing1483 waldinc1485 supple1513 flexible1548 limber1565 lither1565 bending1567 osier1577 wiry1588 buxom1590 withy1598 suppliable1599 renderingc1600 fluxible1607 winding1609 bendable1611 flippant1622 flexive1629 flexile1633 maniable1633 compliant1667 flectible1705 limp1706 yieldy1757 complying1774 limberly1782 willowy1791 switchy1810 wandy1825 twistable1853 bendsome1861 whippy1867 swack1868 bendy1873 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 524 Not a fluxible or loose fat like the fat of Lambes, but a solide fat, like the fat of Hogs. 1618 M. Baret Hipponomie i. 9 The ends of the flint was rather to be hard and firme then soft and fluxable. 1684 tr. T. Bonet Guide Pract. Physician x. 366/2 At that Age all things are fluxible..especially the Bones and Nerves. 2. Capable of being melted; fusible; liquefiable. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > making or becoming liquid > [adjective] > able to be made liquid fluxible1471 liquable1471 frima1475 soluble?a1475 liquefiable1558 liquefactible1644 liquescible1657 colliquable1666 1471 G. Ripley Compound of Alchymy i. vi, in E. Ashmole Theatrum Chem. Britannicum (1652) 130 We make Calxes unctious both Whyte and Red..Fluxyble as Wex. 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 370 In them doth abound fluxible moisture, apt to be dissolued with euerie little heat. 1750 tr. C. Leonardus Mirror of Stones 17 Minerals are of two sorts, some fluxible or liquifiable and others not. 3. Liable to flux or change; fluctuating, not permanent, variable. ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > [adjective] > fluctuating fluxible1561 desultory1581 fluxive?1606 fluctuary1632 desultorious1637 fluctuatinga1680 fluxionary1748 fluctuational1913 1561 R. Eden tr. M. Cortés Arte Nauigation iii. ii. sig. G.viii This is fluxible, wauering, and moueable. 1610 J. Guillim Display of Heraldrie iii. v. 98 Meteors..bee of nature fluxible, and nothing permanent. 1677 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. IV iv. 517 Is there not a natural leuitie and vanitie in every creature which renders it fluxible, variable, and inconstant? Derivatives ˈfluxibly adv. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > constitution of matter > softness > pliableness > [adverb] fluxibly1471 flexibly1607 pliablya1631 flexively1651 supplely1832 1471 G. Ripley Compound of Alchymy vi. ix, in E. Ashmole Theatrum Chem. Britannicum (1652) 163 Every parte all fyre for to endure, Fluxybly fyxe and stabull in tyncture. fluxiˈbility n. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of flowing > [noun] > quality or condition of fluxibility1574 diffluency1646 fluxility1660 defluency1665 scaturiency1667 1574 T. Newton tr. G. Gratarolo Direct. Health Magistrates & Studentes 38 It..stoppeth over much thinnesse and fluxibilitie of bloude. 1651 T. White Answer in Visct. Falkland Disc. Infallibility (new ed.) 43 The fluxibility of humane Nature is so great, that it is no wonder if errors should have crept in. 1750 tr. C. Leonardus Mirror of Stones 20 Such humidity is disproportioned by the fluxibility..and therefore it resides more in one part than in another. ˈfluxibleness n. the quality of being fluxible. ΚΠ 1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Fluxibleness. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.1471 |
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