refluentadj.

Brit.

/ˈrɛflʊənt/, U.S.

/ˈrɛˌfluənt/

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin refluent-, refluēns.

Etymology: < classical Latin refluent-, refluēns, present participle of refluere to flow back < re- re- prefix + fluere to flow (see fluent adj.). Compare reflowing adj.

1. Flowing back, flowing again.

a. Of the tide, waves, etc. Also in extended use (chiefly poetic).

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > [adjective] > back

refluous1628

refluent1695

in tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) Prol. 12 (MED) Thy Prouidence, as sterismon and sterne Emforth this word now refluent, now flood, Now in concord, now violent and wood..extende in grace.

1695 R. Blackmore Prince Arthur v. 141 Lovely Sabrina that for refluent Tydes, Fair Cities, verdant Meadows, flow'ry Sides..Yields only to her fairer Sister Thames.

1712 R. Blackmore Creation i. 34 Tell, by..what subterranean Ways, Back to the Fountain's Head the Sea conveys The refluent Rivers.

1725 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey II. v. 549 Then backward sweep The refluent tydes, and plunge him in the deep.

1743 A. Hill Fanciad ii. 10 'Twas Light no more: Black refluent Shadows gloom'd the Lustres o'er.

1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Iliad in Iliad & Odyssey I. xii. 30 All those [rivers] with refluent course Apollo drove Nine days against the rampart.

1814 H. M. Brackenridge Views Louisiana i. iv. 37 In lower Louisiana, there are a great number of lakes from the refluent waters of the Mississippi.

1834 Tait's Edinb. Mag. New Ser. 1 658/1 The Past, still refluent on the deepening night Of pre-eternity.

1842 A. Alison Hist. Europe from French Revol. X. lxxiii. 2 The once triumphant Peninsular armies, refluent through the passes of the Pyrenees.

1873 T. W. Higginson Oldport Days ii. 36 All night the phosphorescent water..washes with long, refluent waves along their sides.

1893 Mod. Lang. Notes 8 173 Its irregular and lightly-balanced modulations, and its refluent L'angzeile at the end of the fourth line, like the rolling out of an augmented breaker after a succession of minor surges.

1928 V. Woolf Orlando vi. 265 Now floods back refluent like a tide, the red, thick stream of life again.

1933 Speculum 8 340 They had so constructed the opening in the wall of their garden that the drainage from this street..was hindered..for in time of rain the refluent water entered the houses.

1980 K. Boyle Fifty Stories 557 It was only Rod Murray who moved against the refluent tide, making his way steadily back through the loquacious groups.

b. Of human spirits, emotion, energy, etc. Now rare.Frequently with suggestion of senses 1a or 3.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > backward movement > [adjective] > returning towards point of departure > flowing back

refluous1628

refluent1699

1699 S. Garth Dispensary vi. 81 I shew'd of old, how vital Currents glide, And the Meanders of their refluent Tyde.

1714 Spring in Steele Poet. Misc. 109 When to his Heart the refluent Spirits came.

1789 E. Darwin Bot. Garden: Pt. II ii. 77 Slow-ebbing life with refluent crimson breaks O'er their wan lips.

1828 R. Landor Impious Feast iv. 132 Her refluent spirit mounts again to bliss.

1856 R. A. Vaughan Hours with Mystics (1860) II. 78 To give him a hold against any refluent doubt that might threaten to sweep him back.

1872 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch II. iii. xxxii. 151 Too languid to sting, he had the more venom refluent in his blood.

2. Characterized by refluence. Also figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > tide > type of tide > [adjective] > ebbing and flowing

recourseful1612

refluent1616

tiding1622

floating1714

tidal1808

tided1852

1616 G. Chapman tr. Homer Odyssey xx. 309 Driue My soule with Tempests forth,..and let them cast it downe Where refluent Oceanus doth crowne His curled head.

1735 S. Bowden Poet. Ess. II. 38 Thou badst the refluent Muscle beat, And lo! each Pulse obey'd; Each conscious Atom knew its Seat, And in its Station play'd.

1798 Anti-Jacobin 21 May 220/2 Wherever man is found, or refluent oceans roll.

1831 A. M. Winter Thoughts Moral Order Nature III. iii. 304 Their notions..could finally issue unrestrained, so as not to be forced into a refluent movement, at any part of the line presented to them by their reflections.

1864 Ld. Tennyson Boadicea 28 A phantom colony smoulder'd on the refluent estuary.

1974 ELH 41 607 The inspired enthusiasm arising in the mind of the artist is communicated to the audience; by a refluent movement it is then carried back to her.

1986 Contemp. Sociol. 15 473 Other studies take up the story of the Black-Jewish encounter in America, especially as regards the refluent pattern of political collaboration.

3. Medicine. Of blood: flowing back to the heart. Also: (of other fluids within the body) flowing backwards, or in a direction opposite to that regarded as normal, refluxing; of the nature of or characterized by reflux.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > vascular system > circulation > [adjective] > types of circulation

refluent1675

the world > life > the body > nervous system > nerve > types of nerves > [adjective]

motive?a1425

recurrent1578

motory1683

refluent1741

abducent1752

motorial1768

internuncial1821

motor1823

centrifugal1828

unfilamentous1828

masticatory1834

aesthesodic1859

incito-motor1865

vaso-motor1865

kinesodic1874

centripetal1877

vaso-motorial1877

incito-motory1884

augmentor1885

pilomotor1891

postfixed1892

postganglionic1892

precellular1892

prefixed1892

preganglionic1892

plurisegmental1898

nocifensor1936

1675 G. Harvey Dis. of London xvii. 199 I will return to Confirm the cause of a Scorbutic Dropsie to be an Alcalised Blood, by the Calcination or Reverberation of the Bilis, which the Liver is alwayes furnisht with throughout all its parts, to subtiliate and depurate the refluent Blood.

1698 W. Cowper Anat. Humane Bodies Introd. sig. b^v/2 The Ducts discharging their Refluent Lympha from the Lungs, and the other Neighbouring Parts.

1704 J. Ray Wisdom of God (ed. 4) ii. 319 To discharge the refluent Blood into the next adjacent trunk.

1741 A. Monro Anat. Nerves 21 in Anat. Human Bones (ed. 3) This..Reflux it was.., which gave Rise to another Division of the Nerves into arterious or effluent, and venous or refluent.

1816 R. Southey Lay of Laureate lxix I felt the refluent blood forsake my face.

1822 J. M. Good Study Med. IV. 447 The ammoniacal salt of the refluent urine.

1898 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. V. 924 The heading back will..fill the ventricle still more with refluent aortic blood.

1916 Lancet 15 July 97/1 He had unmistakable signs not only of aortic refluent disease, but of mitral regurgitation in addition.

1979 Amer. Jrnl. Cardiol. 44 896/2 Application of positive neck pressures greater than those used in our studies..did not produce any desaturation of the venous blood refluent from the brain.

2001 Clin. Neurol. & Neurosurg. 103 215/1 Tap water (at Ga-Rankuwa Hospital) has a pH of 7.6 thereby having a neutralising effect on refluent gastric acid.

†4. Directed backwards, retrospective. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > direction > specific directions > [adjective] > having backward direction

backward1552

reflexed1595

reverted1658

refluent1741

retroverse1841

rearward1843

revert1854

retral1885

1741 W. Shenstone Judgm. Hercules 424 If o'er their lives a refluent glance they cast, Their's is the present who can praise the past.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	refluent
释义	refluentadj. Brit. /ˈrɛflʊənt/, U.S. /ˈrɛˌfluənt/ Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin refluent-, refluēns. Etymology: < classical Latin refluent-, refluēns, present participle of refluere to flow back < re- re- prefix + fluere to flow (see fluent adj.). Compare reflowing adj. 1. Flowing back, flowing again. a. Of the tide, waves, etc. Also in extended use (chiefly poetic). ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > [adjective] > back refluous1628 refluent1695 in tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) Prol. 12 (MED) Thy Prouidence, as sterismon and sterne Emforth this word now refluent, now flood, Now in concord, now violent and wood..extende in grace. 1695 R. Blackmore Prince Arthur v. 141 Lovely Sabrina that for refluent Tydes, Fair Cities, verdant Meadows, flow'ry Sides..Yields only to her fairer Sister Thames. 1712 R. Blackmore Creation i. 34 Tell, by..what subterranean Ways, Back to the Fountain's Head the Sea conveys The refluent Rivers. 1725 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey II. v. 549 Then backward sweep The refluent tydes, and plunge him in the deep. 1743 A. Hill Fanciad ii. 10 'Twas Light no more: Black refluent Shadows gloom'd the Lustres o'er. 1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Iliad in Iliad & Odyssey I. xii. 30 All those [rivers] with refluent course Apollo drove Nine days against the rampart. 1814 H. M. Brackenridge Views Louisiana i. iv. 37 In lower Louisiana, there are a great number of lakes from the refluent waters of the Mississippi. 1834 Tait's Edinb. Mag. New Ser. 1 658/1 The Past, still refluent on the deepening night Of pre-eternity. 1842 A. Alison Hist. Europe from French Revol. X. lxxiii. 2 The once triumphant Peninsular armies, refluent through the passes of the Pyrenees. 1873 T. W. Higginson Oldport Days ii. 36 All night the phosphorescent water..washes with long, refluent waves along their sides. 1893 Mod. Lang. Notes 8 173 Its irregular and lightly-balanced modulations, and its refluent L'angzeile at the end of the fourth line, like the rolling out of an augmented breaker after a succession of minor surges. 1928 V. Woolf Orlando vi. 265 Now floods back refluent like a tide, the red, thick stream of life again. 1933 Speculum 8 340 They had so constructed the opening in the wall of their garden that the drainage from this street..was hindered..for in time of rain the refluent water entered the houses. 1980 K. Boyle Fifty Stories 557 It was only Rod Murray who moved against the refluent tide, making his way steadily back through the loquacious groups. b. Of human spirits, emotion, energy, etc. Now rare.Frequently with suggestion of senses 1a or 3. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > backward movement > [adjective] > returning towards point of departure > flowing back refluous1628 refluent1699 1699 S. Garth Dispensary vi. 81 I shew'd of old, how vital Currents glide, And the Meanders of their refluent Tyde. 1714 Spring in Steele Poet. Misc. 109 When to his Heart the refluent Spirits came. 1789 E. Darwin Bot. Garden: Pt. II ii. 77 Slow-ebbing life with refluent crimson breaks O'er their wan lips. 1828 R. Landor Impious Feast iv. 132 Her refluent spirit mounts again to bliss. 1856 R. A. Vaughan Hours with Mystics (1860) II. 78 To give him a hold against any refluent doubt that might threaten to sweep him back. 1872 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch II. iii. xxxii. 151 Too languid to sting, he had the more venom refluent in his blood. 2. Characterized by refluence. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > tide > type of tide > [adjective] > ebbing and flowing recourseful1612 refluent1616 tiding1622 floating1714 tidal1808 tided1852 1616 G. Chapman tr. Homer Odyssey xx. 309 Driue My soule with Tempests forth,..and let them cast it downe Where refluent Oceanus doth crowne His curled head. 1735 S. Bowden Poet. Ess. II. 38 Thou badst the refluent Muscle beat, And lo! each Pulse obey'd; Each conscious Atom knew its Seat, And in its Station play'd. 1798 Anti-Jacobin 21 May 220/2 Wherever man is found, or refluent oceans roll. 1831 A. M. Winter Thoughts Moral Order Nature III. iii. 304 Their notions..could finally issue unrestrained, so as not to be forced into a refluent movement, at any part of the line presented to them by their reflections. 1864 Ld. Tennyson Boadicea 28 A phantom colony smoulder'd on the refluent estuary. 1974 ELH 41 607 The inspired enthusiasm arising in the mind of the artist is communicated to the audience; by a refluent movement it is then carried back to her. 1986 Contemp. Sociol. 15 473 Other studies take up the story of the Black-Jewish encounter in America, especially as regards the refluent pattern of political collaboration. 3. Medicine. Of blood: flowing back to the heart. Also: (of other fluids within the body) flowing backwards, or in a direction opposite to that regarded as normal, refluxing; of the nature of or characterized by reflux. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > vascular system > circulation > [adjective] > types of circulation refluent1675 the world > life > the body > nervous system > nerve > types of nerves > [adjective] motive?a1425 recurrent1578 motory1683 refluent1741 abducent1752 motorial1768 internuncial1821 motor1823 centrifugal1828 unfilamentous1828 masticatory1834 aesthesodic1859 incito-motor1865 vaso-motor1865 kinesodic1874 centripetal1877 vaso-motorial1877 incito-motory1884 augmentor1885 pilomotor1891 postfixed1892 postganglionic1892 precellular1892 prefixed1892 preganglionic1892 plurisegmental1898 nocifensor1936 1675 G. Harvey Dis. of London xvii. 199 I will return to Confirm the cause of a Scorbutic Dropsie to be an Alcalised Blood, by the Calcination or Reverberation of the Bilis, which the Liver is alwayes furnisht with throughout all its parts, to subtiliate and depurate the refluent Blood. 1698 W. Cowper Anat. Humane Bodies Introd. sig. b^v/2 The Ducts discharging their Refluent Lympha from the Lungs, and the other Neighbouring Parts. 1704 J. Ray Wisdom of God (ed. 4) ii. 319 To discharge the refluent Blood into the next adjacent trunk. 1741 A. Monro Anat. Nerves 21 in Anat. Human Bones (ed. 3) This..Reflux it was.., which gave Rise to another Division of the Nerves into arterious or effluent, and venous or refluent. 1816 R. Southey Lay of Laureate lxix I felt the refluent blood forsake my face. 1822 J. M. Good Study Med. IV. 447 The ammoniacal salt of the refluent urine. 1898 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. V. 924 The heading back will..fill the ventricle still more with refluent aortic blood. 1916 Lancet 15 July 97/1 He had unmistakable signs not only of aortic refluent disease, but of mitral regurgitation in addition. 1979 Amer. Jrnl. Cardiol. 44 896/2 Application of positive neck pressures greater than those used in our studies..did not produce any desaturation of the venous blood refluent from the brain. 2001 Clin. Neurol. & Neurosurg. 103 215/1 Tap water (at Ga-Rankuwa Hospital) has a pH of 7.6 thereby having a neutralising effect on refluent gastric acid. †4. Directed backwards, retrospective. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > space > direction > specific directions > [adjective] > having backward direction backward1552 reflexed1595 reverted1658 refluent1741 retroverse1841 rearward1843 revert1854 retral1885 1741 W. Shenstone Judgm. Hercules 424 If o'er their lives a refluent glance they cast, Their's is the present who can praise the past. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.?1440
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