fluxionaryadj.
/ˈflʌkʃn̩ri/, U.S. /ˈfləkʃəˌnɛri/ 1. = fluxional adj. 1.
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differential1702
incremental1716
differentio-differential1728
fluxionary1734
fluxional1749
residual1758
Abelian1846
calcular1855
integro-differential1914
1734 G. Berkeley Analyst §10 The great Author of the Fluxionary Method.
1763 W. Emerson Method of Increments Pref. p. vii Some fluxionary quantities have no fluents, but what are expressed by series.
1855 D. Brewster Mem. Life I. Newton (new ed.) I. ii. 35 We find him occupied with his fluxionary calculus.
2. Of the nature of, or subject to ‘fluxion’ or continuous change, fluctuating.
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the world > time > change > [adjective] > fluctuating
fluxible1561
desultory1581
fluxive?1606
fluctuary1632
desultorious1637
fluctuatinga1680
fluxionary1748
fluctuational1913
1748 London Mag. June 255/2 The general ferment..in matter, whereby all bodies are..disposed to undergo those fluxionary changes necessary to their generation, growth and corruption.
1826 De Quincey in Blackwood's Mag. 20 738 Appearances..which, by their very essence, are fluxionary, become unnatural when fixed and petrified.
1841 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 49 416 All other wealth was fluxionary.
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