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单词 influent
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influentadj.n.

/ˈɪnfluːənt/
Etymology: < Latin influent-em, present participle of influĕre to flow in: compare French influent (16th cent. in Godefroy Compl.).
A. adj.
1.
a. Flowing in (in early use in astrological sense).
ΘΚΠ
the world > the universe > heavenly body > as influence on mankind > [adjective] > flowing of influential fluid from stars
influent1471
the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of flowing > [adjective] > in or together
influent1607
inflowing1611
inpouring1853
interfluent1872
1471 G. Ripley Compound of Alchymy Ep. iii. in E. Ashmole Theatrum Chem. Britannicum (1652) 114 Phebus it smiteth with his Heate influent.
1513 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid xii. Prol. 42 [The sun] Defundand fra hys sege etheriall Glaid influent aspectis celicall.
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 143 By [wearing] them the aflicted place receiueth a double reliefe; first, it resisteth the influent humors.
1635 T. Heywood Hierarchie Blessed Angells v. 274 Stars, luminous and cleare..full of influent vertue.
1704 J. Ray Wisdom of God (ed. 4) ii. 320 The refluent Blood..is a pondus to the influent Blood.
a1800 W. Cowper tr. J. Milton Elegies i. 9 Where Thames, with influent tide, My native city laves.
1883 Harper's Mag. Oct. 713/2 One of the influent streams.
b. transferred and figurative.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > existence > intrinsicality or inherence > introduction or bringing in > [adjective] > infusing or infused
influentc1445
instillant?1504
instincta1538
infused1577
indrunk1662
infusive1728
inspirative1797
c1445 J. Lydgate Testament in Minor Poems (1840) 241 I now purpoose, by thy grace influent, To write a tretys.
c1485 Digby Myst. (1882) iii. 1096 Þe hey and nobyll Inflventt grace of..Iesus.
1739 J. Huxham Ess. Fevers (1750) ii. 26 The Constitution of the Solids and Fluids..may be so far depressed as to bring on the low Influent, or slow nervous Fever.
1848 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 3) 200 Born Of effluent or influent Deity.
1890 J. Pulsford Loyalty to Christ I. 331 Living through God's influent life.
2. Exercising celestial or astral influence or occult power. archaic.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the universe > heavenly body > as influence on mankind > [adjective]
influent1430
starry1561
influential1570
sideral1611
influxious1644
ruling1659
influous1662
1430–40 J. Lydgate tr. Bochas Fall of Princes ix. Envoye An heuenli signe bi Influent pourueiaunce Sent from aboue to shewe Edwardis riht.
1613 T. Heywood Brazen Age in Wks. (1874) III. 217 If the Moones spheare can any helpe infuse, Or any influent Starre.
?1615 G. Chapman in tr. Homer Odysses (new ed.) Ep. Ded. 46 As th' influent stone..Lifts high the heavy iron.
1856 E. B. Browning Aurora Leigh i. 23 Multitudinous mountains..panting from their full deep hearts Beneath the influent heavens.
1922 T. Hardy Late Lyrics & Earlier 93 No influent star endeared me, Unknown, unrecked, unproved!
3. Exercising (mental, moral, or physical) influence on, upon; influential. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > power > influence > [adjective] > exercising influence
influent1632
influencing1718
1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. 89 So tumultuous were the disordered Souldiers, and the occasions of revenge and quarrellings so influent.
1654 W. Montagu Miscellanea Spiritualia: 2nd Pt. ix. §2. 174 [Humility] is more operative and influent upon others, then any other vertue.
1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. viii. 31 I finde no office..assigned unto Dr. Cox..who was vertually influent upon all.
1657 W. Morice Coena quasi Κοινὴ Def. xiii. 178 The old may have the same effects influent on our times.
B. n.
1. A river or stream which flows into another or into a lake; a tributary, an affluent.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > tributary > [noun]
succour1596
creek1622
kill1669
sidestream1715
feeder1795
tribute-river1820
tributary1822
affluent1829
confluent1849
sub-river1849
influent1859
1859 R. F. Burton in Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 29 116 The Rumuma river..a southern influent or a bifurcation of the Mukondokwa.
1881 Academy 21 May 366/3 One of the largest influents of the Zambesi.
2. Ecology. An organism which affects the ecological balance of a plant or animal community.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > biology > balance of nature > organisms in relation to habitat > [noun]
colonist1839
benthos1891
land form1897
heterotroph1900
autotroph1901
epibenthos1902
specialist1902
microaerophile1903
nitrifier1903
consumer1904
nitrogen fixer1904
producer1904
indicator1906
psychrophile1906
thermophil1909
sulphuretum1925
influent1926
halobiont1928
halophile1928
mesophile1928
oligosaprobe1931
saprobe1932
eurytope1938
stenotope1938
photoautotroph1939
chemoautotroph1943
prototroph1946
mixotrophy1948
chemolithoautotroph1949
auxotroph1950
chemoheterotroph1951
chemoorganotroph1953
chemolithotroph1955
chemotroph1958
osmophile1961
psychrotroph1963
saprotroph1963
generalist1964
opportunist1967
cryophile1970
1926 V. E. Shelford in Ecology VII. 389 Professor [F. E.] Clements kindly suggested the term influent to cover those organisms which have important relations in the biotic balance and interaction.
1935 Ecology XVI. 399 Migratory species..are frequently seasonal influents classed in seasonal communities in two biomes.
1938 J. E. Weaver & F. E. Clements Plant Ecol. (ed. 2) xviii. 478 It is more convenient to employ a distinct term and call them [sc. animals] influents in reference to their abundance and corresponding importance.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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