refluent

English

Etymology

Latin refluens, present active participle of refluō (“I flow back”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹɛflu.ənt/

Adjective

refluent (comparative more refluent, superlative most refluent)

1. (now literary) Flowing back.

   Synonym: ebbing

   • c. 1615, George Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses‎^[1], London: Nathaniell Butter, Book , p. 309:

     […] let them cast it [my soul] downe
     Where refluent Oceanus doth crowne
     His curled head;

   • 1794, Erasmus Darwin, Zoonomia‎^[2], London: J. Johnson, Volume 1, Section 14, Chapter 7, p. 123:

     When the muscles of the heart cease to act, the refluent blood again distends or elongates them;

   • 1847 November 1, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “5”, in Evangeline, a Tale of Acadie, Boston, Mass.: William D. Ticknor & Company, →OCLC:

     […] in haste the refluent ocean
     Fled away from the shore, and left the line of the sand-beach
     Covered with waifs of the tide, with kelp and the slippery sea-weed.

   • 1928, Virginia Woolf, chapter 6, in Orlando: A Biography, London: The Hogarth Press, →OCLC; republished as Orlando: A Biography (eBook no. 0200331h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, July 2015:

     now floods back refluent like a tide, the red, thick stream of life again

Translations

flowing back

• Bulgarian: оттеглящ се (ottegljašt se)
• Italian: refluo
• Latin: refluus

French

Verb

refluent

1. third-person plural present indicative/subjunctive of refluer

Latin

Verb

refluent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of refluō