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单词 profluent
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profluentadj.

Brit. /ˈprɒflʊənt/, U.S. /ˈprɑfluənt/, /ˈprɑfləw(ə)nt/
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin prōfluent-, prōfluēns.
Etymology: < classical Latin prōfluent-, prōfluēns (of water) free-flowing, running, (of speech) fluent, use as adjective of present participle of prōfluere to flow forth, to flow freely, to overflow, to spring or emanate from < prō- pro- prefix1 + fluere to flow (see fluent adj. and n.). Compare Middle French profluant that flows (1452). Compare effluent adj.
1.
a. Branching out from a central body. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > relative position > inclination > divergence > [adjective] > ramified > branching off
profluentc1450
outbranching1841
offsetting1856
c1450 tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Bodl. Add.) xii. 56 (MED) Save on every side The bowes profluent [L. fluentes] for fruyte to abyde.
1578 J. Banister Hist. Man i. f. 32 For the subduction of..braunches of Sinewes, profluent from the spinall marey, through the holes in Os sacrum.
1720 S. Catherall Ess. Conflagration 25 How much those profluent Arms extended wide From the Sea's matchless Bulk.
b. Flowing forth; streaming out. Now rare and poetic.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > [adjective] > flowing out or forth
profluent1667
the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of flowing > [adjective] > out or forth
profluent1667
effluent1726
effusive1726
excurrent1826
outrunning1894
the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of flowing > [adjective] > forth, onward, or towards
affluent?a1475
profluous1585
profluent1667
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xii. 442 Them who shall beleeve Baptizing in the profluent streame. View more context for this quotation
1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. ii. 42 The great and profluent river of Trent.
1738 tr. J. Jurin in J. Keill Ess. Animal Oecon. (ed. 4) 77 The Power of the Bladder cannot be estimated by the Motion of the profluent Urine.
1792 B. Edwards Poems 6 While the yielding wave Some clasp with circling arm, and buoyant float The profluent eddy.
1812 J. Hutton Venoni 27 Shall the profluent stream of peace Roll its everlasting tide?
1879 Scribner's Monthly July 462/2 But the profluent tide of color has invaded even this stainless snow.
1959 H. Carruth Coll. Shorter Poems (1992) 4 Where sun's profluent aureate flood descends.
2. Flowing freely or profusely; unrestrained, abundant.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > [adjective] > copiously or continuously
outflowingOE
wellingc1400
outgushing1569
overflown1579
profluous1585
outstreaming1598
spewing1616
effluxivea1657
effluxing1674
effluenced1691
effluent1726
effusive1726
outwelling1736
profluent1737
outpouring1808
pumping1812
gushing1815
founting1827
flowing1867
fountaining1883
society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > copiousness > [adjective] > having abundant vocabulary > profuse
scaturiginous1708
profluent1866
1737 Mem. Soc. Grub-St. I. 301 A profluent volubility of empty words.
1783 J. Hanway Let. to Governors Maritime-school 47 The spirit of munificence will be less profluent.
1848 J. Sterling in Fraser's Mag. 38 308 In mild sequence forms of profluent grace Move.
1866 J. A. Symonds in H. R. F. Brown J. A. Symonds (1895) I. vii. 359 Elizabethanism..is profluent, profuse of emotion.
1905 G. Jackson in Expositor July 63 A babbling profluent way of talking.
1961 Science 17 Mar. 750/3 We shall be sustained by the belief that some microbiological scholar..will..fuse the diverse elements of bacteriology into a profluent magnum opus.
1996 SIAM Rev. 38 706/2 The books vary from the eccentric..to the fastidious and analytic..to the profluent.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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