affluxion

English

Noun

affluxion (plural affluxions)

1. (archaic) The act of flowing towards; afflux.
   • 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:

     an hot and sanguineous affluxion

References

• “affluxion”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.