fluxure
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin flūxūra (“a flowing”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]fluxure
- (obsolete) The quality of being fluid; fluidity.
- 1599 (first performance), B. I. [i.e., Ben Jonson], “[Prologue]”, in The Comicall Satyre of Euery Man out of His Humor. […], London: […] [Adam Islip] for William Holme, […], published 1600, →OCLC, signature B ij, verso:
- Humor […] in it ſelfe holds theſe two properties, Moiſture and Fluxure: […]
- (obsolete) Fluid matter.
- 1612, Michael Drayton, “Song 27”, in [John Selden], editor, Poly-Olbion. Or A Chorographicall Description of Tracts, Riuers, Mountaines, Forests, and Other Parts of this Renowned Isle of Great Britaine, […], London: […] [Humphrey Lownes] for M[athew] Lownes; I[ohn] Browne; I[ohn] Helme; I[ohn] Busbie, →OCLC, page 136:
- Call'd Barnacles by us, which like a Jelly first / To the beholder seeme, then by the fluxure nurst.
References
[edit]- “fluxure”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Latin
[edit]Participle
[edit]flūxūre
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