单词 | profluent |
释义 | profluentadj. 1. 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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